Supramax shipowners are bracing for a tough finale to a disappointing year as limping grain and petcoke trade in the Atlantic fails to support the monstrous weight of available tonnage. That has been keeping freight rates low, while hopes ...
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Jiangsu Shagang Group, China's biggest scrap buyer, cut buying prices Saturday for the raw material by Yuan 30/mt ($5/mt), in response to a slide in rebar prices, a company source said. After the adjustment, Shagang will pay Yuan ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Rebar
While Ford has made inroads into increased usage of aluminum sheet in its vehicles, it is still "too early" to expect additional steel-to-aluminum announcements from other major automakers such as Toyota and General Motors, Sean Stack, CEO ...
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Despite buying a little more than 500,000 mt of scrap in the first three months of this year, China is dominating the steel scrap market, according to the latest Bureau of International Recycling World Mirror on ferrous metals. China ...
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Packaging technology supplier Bradman Lake Group (BLG) – represented in Oceania by HBM Packaging Technologies – has partnered with Devon Biscuit in the West Indies to streamline its biscuit packaging process. Its range of ...
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Canada and Mexico will move World Trade Organization (WTO) for authorization to slap $3bn in tariffs against the US, as a retaliatory trade measure over meat packaging. The bone of contention is the 2009 laws, which, according to Canada ...
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Spot offers for Chinese electrolytic manganese metal, or EMM, on a FOB basis have halted the downward trend seen since March, market sources said Friday. Despite the prevailing weak overseas demand, sources said Chinese domestic prices ...
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Taiwan has imposed stricter regulations on Japanese food imports from the regions affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The restrictions, which are in line with radiation safety management practices, will be temporary, Reuters ...
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Sabin Robbins Converting Company is selling the equipment at its paper converting plant in Mansfield city, US. Gordon Brothers Group, an advisory, restructuring and investment firm, is assisting Sabin sell its assets. Established in ...
Oregon-based Boyd’s Coffee along with the Canadian coffee roaster Club Coffee will be launching 100% compostable, fully certified single-serve beverage pod. Developed in conjunction with international experts and scientists at the ...
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Aluminum rolling and recycling company Novelis has launched evercycle, a new portfolio of certified high-recycled content aluminum for specialty applications. The speciality of the new material is that it can produce products with a ...
Crocs Inc. released its 2014 sustainability report that showed progress around social compliance audits at its Asian factories and a reduction in hazardous emissions in the production process. The third annual report provides an update on ...
The initiative covers three main areas – the company’s manufacturing processes, product design and facilities – and involves close working partnerships with its customers and employees. In its manufacturing operations, ...
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The global leader in induction cap sealing was exhibiting at the Empack show in February, co-located with Packaging Innovations, for the fifth consecutive year. Visitors were able to see some of Enercon’s Super Seal range, which ...
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Australia's meat pie producing company Patties Foods has decided to scrap its interim dividend following the frozen berries recall due to potential microbiological contamination. The company recalled contaminated products earlier this ...
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