Imerys Filtration Minerals Inc will increase prices for products shipped within North America from 1 July 2013. The 2–8% increase, subject to any provisions in individual contracts, will apply across all diatomite, perlite, ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will oppose the proposed acquisition of Rafferty's Garden by Heinz. Heinz and Rafferty's Garden are the two largest suppliers of wet and dry infant food in Australia. A merged ...
Tags: Service
DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective July 1, 2013, or as contracts allow as ...
Tags: Textile
LED chipmaker Epistar has reported May revenues of NT$2.223 billion (US$74 million), showing an on-month increase of 15.8% and an on-year increase of 19.42%. The figure was also a record high. Epistar stated demand for AlGaInP LEDs has ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) authorities have opposed US-based food giant HJ Heinz's proposed acquisition of organic baby food producer Rafferty's Garden. This decision follows a review of the transaction for ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, baby food
Market rumors that the new generation of Apple's iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for the home button have been circulating and Taiwan-based sapphire substrate maker Tera Xtal has reportedly sent samples to Apple for verification. ...
BASF will increase the price for all medium solids styrene butadiene emulsion polymers by $0.05 per wet pound in North America, effective March 29, 2013 or as contracts allow. This price increase involves BASF products under the tradename ...
US polyethylene contracts for HDPE film, LDPE and LLDPE rose in March, market sources said Tuesday. Producers initially planned to increase prices for those grades in February, but delayed the hikes for film-grade PE resins to match ...
It is learned that the current hot rolled coil price from local steelmakers is around 6%~9% lower than imported Chinese steel, which is contrary to the historical trend of a premium over international prices. According to vice president of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Cotton Australia has filed a submission to the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) in a bid to stop a proposed 17.5% increase in electricity tariffs for Queensland growers. The QCA’s draft determination on electricity prices for ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Australia, Cotton Industry
With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the followingproducts 1,4 Butanediol (BDO) + 80 EUR/mt Tetrahydrofuran (THF) + 50 EUR/mt Polytetramethylene ether glycol ...
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Brazil’s Usiminas, the largest flat steel producer in the country, plans to increase prices for some products since March 1st in order to boost the company’s margins. It is said that Usiminas informed distributors that ...
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Cristal announced that it will increase prices on all of its anatase and rutile TiONA and Cristal titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific sub-regions ...
Tags: Cristal, TiO2 products, Price
North American integrated packaging provider PaperWorks Industries (PWI) has announced price increases on all Masterworks CRB grades and Masterworks URB+. The increase, which will be coming into effect with shipments as of 25 March 2013, ...
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Toluene market showed signs of improvement in Europe in the week ending February 16, 2013. Market was dull since the start of this year. Prices were hovering around US$ 1290-1310/ton FOB Rotterdam in the initial days of January 2013. ...
Tags: Toluene market, improvement, Europe