As coal prices remain lackluster due to sluggish demand, Shanxi took measures to stabilize the local coal market and ease the mounting pressure that coal producers in the province have been feeling since January. The Shanxi provincial ...
Tags: Local Coal Market, sluggish demand
The CIF price spread between naphtha and less expensive North Sea propane has narrowed on a lack of offers, according to industry sources. Over the summer, the petrochemicals sector in Northwest Europe uses significant quantities of North ...
Tags: Propane Price, Naphtha Price
Ineos Olefins and Polymers seeks to increase its polypropylene prices in the US by 2 cents/pound ($44/metric ton) for July, joining other producers seeking to expand margins for the second time this year, market sources said Monday. The ...
Tags: Polypropylene, Chemicals
Taiwan's Gloria Material Technology Corp (GMTC) planned to continue its expansion plan enhance its upstream capacity by half, in spite of the fact that the environmental approval issue. It's learned that GMTC planned to install a new ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, taiwan
Transdanube Industries SRL might complete its Romanian rebar mini-mill in 2016. The total investment was US$295 million and the project will be financed from several investors. It’s learned that the financing should be ...
Although Taiwan's Feng Hsin has tried to keep its rebar base price unchanged for this week, one of Southern Taiwan's rebar mill has still cut its rebar price a little bit in this week. The current rebar market price will be about ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, taiwan
DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective July 1, 2013, or as contracts allow as ...
Tags: Textile
BASF has successfully completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law. REACH stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals and represents a fundamental reorganization of ...
BASF has completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law. REACH stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals and represents a fundamental reorganization of chemical law in ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
NLMK Kaluga in their hot testing of its electric arc furnace and rolling shops has cast their first metric ton of steel. NLMK Kaluga which is a subsidiary of Russian steelmaker NLMK Group will start production of rebar and sections on an ...
Tags: NLMK Kaluga, Test Production
Petroleum futures were slightly bearish Monday, with ICE July Brent settling 2 cents lower at $102.62/barrel. Volumes were low and markets rangebound for the most part because of holidays on both sides of the Atlantic. Electronic trading ...
Reportedly, Posco is largest steelmaker in South Korea, planned to develop a new 300,000 metric ton/year cold-rolle non-grain-oriented electrical steel sheet plant at Vile Bhagad in the Raigarh district of western India's Maharashtra state. ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Venezuela and China have agreed on the terms of a previously announced $4 billion financing deal to increase the output of their Sinovensa joint venture in Venezuela's Orinoco oil belt, the South American country's oil minister said late ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The pressures placed by European Union (EU) climate policies on the European steel industry to reach ever more ambitious CO2 reduction targets and the absence of technologies to achieve such targets were among the issues discussed during ...
Tags: European Steel, Mineral
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its Ukrainian subsidiary ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has finished the overhaul of its blast furnace No. 7 in just 26 days. During this period, the blast furnace in question was idle for four ...
Tags: ArcelorMittal, steel, blast furnace