Roads in Finland in 2020 will hum to the sound of low-emission vehicles running on renewable energy, electricity, hydrogen and sustainable biofuels. The share of public transport and car pooling in densely populated urban areas will ...
Tags: Service, vehicles, renewable energy, Smart transport
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
For the European coatings industry, REACH, the seven-year-old European Union's legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of industrial chemicals, has been posing major difficulties. However the Biocidal Products ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
University College London researchers published their study whose results show that users of ecigarettes who want to quit smoking are 60% more likely to succeed than when they use NRTs or simple willpower. Like other aspects of ecigarettes, ...
Tags: E cigarettes, E-cigarettes
The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Chinese authorities have entered into a new agreement to begin negotiations on opening export routes for British beef and lamb suppliers to China. The ...
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Russian gas exports to Europe via Ukraine are continuing as per normal at about 185 million cubic meters/d, despite an explosion Tuesday afternoon at a Ukrainian gas pipeline, Gazprom deputy chairman Vitaly Markelov said Wednesday. "Gas ...
Tags: Gas Exports, gas pipeline
China's coastal coal freight rates are showing signs of stabilizing this week, after falling for three months amid lackluster shipping demand from utilities. As of June 18, the shipping rate for vessels of 50,000-60,000 dwt from ...
Tags: Fenwei Energy, Freight Rates
Among the most crucial issues raised during Euratex General Assembly held on June 4th 2014, special attention was paid to the growth of dyestuffs prices. Alberto Paccanelli, President of EURATEX, stressed forcefully that, “the EU ...
Tags: Textile Sector
China exported 8.07 million mt of finished steel in May this year, up 7.03 percent month on month, while it exported 33.94 million mt of finished steel in the January-May period of the year, rising by 33.6 percent year on year, according to ...
Tags: Finished Steel, iron ore
In May of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $355.024 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 3.0 percent, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities on June 8. In the given month, the total value of ...
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According to official data, the Mexican government has stopped the export of about 300,000 tons of iron ore (totaling US$30 million) since March from four ships: one containing 68,000 tons, two ships with 100,000 tons each, and a fourth ...
Tags: Iron Ore Ships, iron ore
Prices of most of the 12 copper futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange Friday fell week on week in thinner volumes as market participants adopted a cautious approach following news that Qingdao port had halted shipments of aluminum and ...
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Ukraine insisted on a complete revision of its gas supply deal with Russia and would not be swayed by offers of discounts, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said here Wednesday. "We still adhere to our old position: we should revise the ...
Tags: Gas Supply, oil
China has lifted the temporary ban imposed on the imports of British cheese in April this year. A ban was imposed following complaints from food inspectors on hygienic standards at an undisclosed dairy in the UK. The officials, who had ...
Tags: Cheese, Agriculture, Food
Glass manufacturer Asahi Glass's (AGC) subsidiary AGC Automotive Mexico has broken ground for construction of a new automotive glass plant in Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. At the ceremony which was participated by ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories