Colombia in January will begin importing 39 MMcf/d of natural gas from neighboring Venezuela to meet domestic needs, ending decades of natural gas self sufficiency, the head of Ecopetrol said Monday. The country is negotiating to increase ...
Tags: natural gas, crude
Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a four-day state visit to Britain from Oct 20 to 23, during which the two countries signed cooperation agreements worth a combined 40 billion pounds, including Chinese investment in a British nuclear power ...
Tags: China-Britain Rapport, closer ties
The 849 MW FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, New York, will be shut permanently by late 2016 or early 2017, due to "the continued deteriorating economics of the facility," Entergy said Monday in a statement. The unit is licensed to ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, developed and launched a new Corshield alkyd system designed to provide resistance and lasting color for severe corrosive environments. The new Corshield ...
BASF has strengthened its comprehensive range of amines with a new product: the cycloaliphatic diamine Methylcyclohexyldiamine (MCDA), which the company markets under the brand name Baxxodur EC210. Used as an aminic hardener in epoxy ...
Tags: Specialty Amines, BASF
The first meeting of the China-Indonesia High-Level Economic Dialogue was held in Beijing on January 26. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economy Sofyan Djalil co-chaired the meeting, and the two ...
Major regional markets (i.e. China, the U.S. and Japan) and other emerging markets continue to drive the demand growth of this year’s photovoltaic (PV) market. The latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, says that the ...
Tags: PV market, PV installation
China’s polysilicon import volume has declined month by month after the total import volume peaked in May, according to the polysilicon import data in China. As China begins to close a loophole that permits duty-free polysilicon from ...
Tags: polysilicon, multi-si wafer
Changs Ascending Enterprise Co., Ltd. (CAEC), a supplier of lithium-iron phosphate oxide (LiFexMyPOz) cathode materials, and a Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE)-listed firm, recently claimed that it will copy its successful Japanese market ...
Tags: Cathode-material, CAEC, lithium-iron phosphate, machinary equipments
The latest photovoltaic (PV) price update by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, shows the downstream sector of the industry has been seeing brisk orders since the start of June. Stock up demands for this month also starts to pick up ...
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced a definitive agreement to sell its solar system business - including all technology assets and ...
Tags: Soitec, Core Semiconductor
While biocides market growth in the mature markets of Europe and the United States is estimated at 2% and slightly less than 1%, respectively, the 5% growth forecast in biocides consumption in Southeast Asia during 2014-2019 makes this ...
Hempel’s HEMPADUR AvantGuard product range was named Materials Performance (MP) Corrosion Innovation of the Year for 2014 at the NACE Corrosion 2015 Conference and Exhibition. Given on 16 March in Dallas, US, the award recognizes the ...
Tags: AvantGuard technology, NACE Corrosion 2015 Conference and Exhibition
To create more sustainable denim, India-based KG Fabriks has installed 1.05 MW rooftop solar power plant at its denim and industrial manufacturing plant in Perundurai town of Erode district. The solar power plant, owned and developed ...
Tags: sustainable denim, KG Fabriks
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, says that Apple has committed $848m for clean ...
Tags: Commercial End-User, Electronics