Japanese mills have increased their export prices of cold rolled non-grain-oriented steel (CRNGO) to China by US$20~30/ton month-by-month since October, attempting to reach at US$750/ton CFR although CRNGO prices unchanged by Chinese main ...
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The Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller held at the Company's headquarters a meeting dedicated to the Vladivostok-LNG project. It was noted that the project was progressing rapidly and on schedule – the first train ...
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cJapanese manufacturers are way ahead of competition in LED lighting patent applications. Nine Japanese companies have become major patentee in the LED industry, with Samsung as the sole Korean patent holder. Japanese companies have ...
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We are pleased to announce that Minera Antucoya, located in Chile, which is owned 30% by Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) and 70% by Antofagasta plc (“Antofagasta”), one of the world’s leading copper ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes narrowed $19/mt Monday from Friday's level, to $173/mt, a one year-low, as MX was strengthening amid a bearish PX market, Platts data showed. Isomer-MX on an FOB ...
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Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, Thursday asked visiting US energy secretary Ernest Moniz to move forward the two countries' bilateral agreement on methane hydrate cooperation, a METI source said. The ...
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It is reported that, the overseas mergers and acquisitions activity of the Japanese enterprise is speeding up. From July to September in 2013, the overseas M&A is 166, compared with about 30% up. The amount of M&A is to trillion yen, rose ...
About 500 textile mills in Indonesia need revitalization in order to enhance their competitiveness in the domestic and export markets, Industry Minister MS Hidayat said on the sidelines of a national coordination meeting of Indonesian ...
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Vehicle sales in China showed unexpectedly robust growth in September as Japanese producers continued to recover from anti-Japanese sentiment last year, which was tied to a territorial dispute between the two countries. Vehicle sales ...
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Many SiC-based substrate manufacturers exhibited 6-inch (150mm)-diameter wafers at ICSCRM 2013, an international conference on SiC-based power semiconductors, which took place from Sept 29 to Oct 4, 2013, in Miyazaki, Japan. Six-inch ...
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Hundreds of delegates from countries representing 90% of the global LNG trade returned to Tokyo this year to hash out the debate started years ago by the discovery of new North American and African gas supplies -- whether to move away from ...
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Japan currently has the lowest global GDP per capita of energy usage. The average American household uses twice that of Japan and four times that in instrumentation. If Japanese companies hope to be competitive in the lower priced product ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes shrank $9/mt day on day to a one-year low of $175/mt on a CFR basis Wednesday as PX prices turned top heavy while MX remained bullish, Platts data showed. Asian ...
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The CFR Taiwan/China paraxylene price benchmark fell $8.50/mt from Friday to be pegged at $1,511.50/mt early Monday, after negotiators reached no settlement for September Asian Contract Prices, market sources said. Market sources said ...
In its Research Bulletin dated August 2, 2013, IC Insights published its list of the top semiconductor sales leaders for the first half of 2013. The list showed the usual big-time players that we've come to expect like Intel, Samsung, and ...
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