Chinese majority-owned coal producer Yancoal has announced that its open-pit mines Yarrabee and Middlemount have been affected by the heavy rainfalls impacting Australia's Queensland region. Production from the mines is likely to be ...
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PPG Industries announced that it has declared force majeure for vinyl chloride monomer manufactured at the company’s Lake Charles, La., chemicals complex and for all grades of liquid caustic soda on a system wide basis. The company ...
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Major Latin American PVC producer Mexichem continued to conduct internal discussions in efforts to respond to a force majeure announced last week by its feedstock VCM supplier PPG in the US, a Mexichem source said Wednesday. "We're ...
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US steam cracker margins climbed last week on higher spot prices and chemical plant outages. The US ethylene spot price jumped 6 cents on the week and was assessed Friday at 60-60.50 cents/lb FD USG, as olefins producer Williams ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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According to a Reuters survey, Iran posted increases in its oil output in November. Iranian supply has risen by 40,000 barrels per day to 2.71 million barrels per day. Sources in the survey said that a resumption in sales to South Korea ...
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Mr Beni Prasad Verma the union minister of Steel met with Mr Martin Ferguson the minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism, Government of Australia, when the latter called upon the Steel Minister to discuss issues related to greater ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Authorities of Pavlodar oblast link axing of over 400 employees of the steel plant with suspension of its export to Iran. Mr Myrzazhan Ussenov deputy head of entrepreneurship and industry department of Pavlodar ...
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Reuters reported that OPEC crude oil output has declined in November to its lowest since January because of disruptions to Nigerian output and reduced supplies from Angola and Libya. A Reuters survey found that supply from the 12 member ...
Oman's Octal Petrochemicals is still offering polyethylene terephthalate in Europe despite a force majeure, contrary to suggestions by some market sources, the company's managing director said Thursday. A European PET converter said ...
Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Mohsin Aziz has rejected unilateral move of finalizing the proposed Corporate Rehabilitation Act by the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) to juggernaut the industry ...
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A supplier can invoke a force majeure clause if unforeseen circumstances impact on its ability to deliver against a contract. Force majeure is a legal term. The Oxford Dictionary definition describes the term as the ...
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Australia - Never Did Me Any Harm is a new dance theatre work by award-winning director and choreographer Kate Champion (Not in a Million Years, The Age I'm In), exploring the complexities of contemporary family life. It is a co-production ...
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Local PVC availability in Italy has been squeezed due to the absence of several mainstream European suppliers, as per ChemOrbis. Some of the suppliers are still facing production issues at their plants while some already sold out their ...
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