Tackling excess capacity will be one of the top tasks on China's economic agenda in 2014, as the issue becomes a major challenge to maintaining the pace and quality of economic growth. "The Chinese economy still faces downward pressure ...
Tags: Slashing Capacity, Mineral
Mexican tube maker Tubacero is under trial run and tests stage for its new tube plant in the Interpuerto Monterrey logistics park. The US$120 million budge facility has capacity of 180,000 tons per year for welded tube and set to have ...
Tags: steel, Construction
TransCanada Corporation (TSX:TRP) (NYSE:TRP) (TransCanada) today announced the start of a binding open season to obtain commitments from interested parties for firm capacity on the Canadian Mainline natural gas transmission system in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas
Fuji Oil may consider entering into alliances with other companies in the Japanese refining and petrochemical sector, where it can benefit, a senior company official with the Japanese refiner said. "We are not able to speak about anything ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Ministry of Economy shall, within ten days to submit to the Government a draft regulation to create the conditions for effective work glassworks. The assignment was made ??Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich at a meeting of the ...
Tags: Glassworks, Construction Glass
Abundant shale natural gas reserves in the United States are expected to keep petrochemical producers in North America well stocked with inexpensive ethane for the next decade, according to the just-launched Platts Petrochemical Analytics: ...
Tags: platts, petrochemical, analytic, report, shale, gas, boom
Mondelez International plans to open a $100m biscuit manufacturing facility at its Opava site in the Czech Republic. The project, which builds on $240m investment across European biscuits network since 2010 including sites in France, the ...
Domestic spot prices of high carbon ferrochrome (basis 50% Cr) in China continued to cweek on week at Yuan 6,850-7,000/mt (85-86.5 cents/lb), on a delivered basis including 17% VAT, amid little change in market fundamentals, sources said ...
China's central energy authority has proposed to build more photovoltaic power stations in 2014 than originally planned as solar panel producers struggle before dwindling export orders. The capacity of new PV power stations to be built in ...
China's central energy authority has proposed to build more photovoltaic (PV) power stations in 2014 than originally planned as solar panel producers struggle before dwindling export orders. The capacity of new PV power stations to be ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, PV power
The production of multicrystalline-silicon (c-Si) solar photovoltaic (PV) modules is set to dominate PV manufacturing during 2014, with p-type multi c-Si technology accounting for 62% of all modules produced, according to Solarbuzz. Solar ...
Tags: Solar PV Industry, Silicon Modules
The South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI) said today, October 28, that the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region is a significant net importer of steel products, pointing out that the region is not ...
Tags: Steel Plant, Mineral
According to EnergyTrend, the intensive pricing competition in the photovoltaic (PV) market has gradually come to an end. Due to the increased demand in emerging markets, solar system demand in 2014 is likely to rise substantially. The ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Lights, Lighting, PV
Johns Manville has completed an expansion of its micro glass fiber nonwoven production for air filtration media at its plant in Wertheim, Germany. The micro glass fiber nonwovens are used by Johns Manville as top-performance media in HVAC ...
Tags: Micro Glass Fiber
There is new recycled containerboard capacity scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2013. Blue Paper, a joint venture between VPK and Klingele Papierwerke (Germany), is in the final stages of converting a fine paper machine (from UPM ...
Tags: Recycled Price