CB&I and Clariant announced its new Ziegler-Natta (ZN) polypropylene catalyst production plant in Louisville, Kentucky, is on schedule to begin production in 2015. The plant is part of a long-term strategic partnership between ...
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A federal court filing this week indicated that arrangements are being made to sell a significant portion of the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore, Maryland. Court documents stated the sale was being prepared for an unnamed ...
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The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has revised the time of gas supply to captive power plants of the large-scale textile spinning industry at the request of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Punjab, reports The ...
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US-based food company General Mills has opened its new $15m technology and quality centre in China, as the company plans further investment and growth in the country. The 75,000ft2 facility will focus on developing a wide range of food ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and more than 40 other associations are urging the State Department to move ahead toward completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, in ...
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A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
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UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
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Russia-based steel pipe producer ChTPZ Group has stated that it has dispatched four pipes of 1,420 mm diameter with wall thickness of 21.7 mm, with external and internal anti-corrosion coating, made of MMK's sheet steel of K60 grade for the ...
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South Sudan has received over $3.5 billion from the sale of crude oil between June 2013 and May 2014, the country's oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau said in a statement made available to Platts in the capital Juba on Sunday. "As from June ...
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Beijing bureaucrats are all exhausted just by chasing a sputtering economy and trying to keep it moving. Some fine-tuning here, a bit of state spending there – all with the aim of meeting a GDP growth target. But if they want to stop ...
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US-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by China-based ...
Minnesota Congressman Rick Nolan announced Thursday a legislative initiative to require that 100 percent of new pipelines in the US are made with US-produced steel. Currently, the 100 percent steel requirement (also known as the ...
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US natural gas prices will remain in the $4/MMBtu range this year while production growth in Appalachian shales will continue to be feverish, a consultant's new study and Barclays said Thursday. The energy consultants at Arlington, ...
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Yemen's crude oil exports in February fell to 800,000 barrels, from around 2 million barrels in January as repeated attacks on oil pipelines led to halts in crude production, official new agency Saba reported Saturday, quoting a report by ...
Canada's total crude oil output is expected to reach 3.9 million b/d in 2015, some 500,000 b/d more than the current output, driven primarily by small in-situ oil sands developments, each typically 35,000-40,000 b/d, an industry official ...
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