Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina has signed a heads of agreement for a $5.5 billion upgrade of the Cilacap refinery with Saudi Aramco, president director Dwi Soetjipto said in a statement Thursday. The project is ...
Tags: crude distillation, refinery, sour crude
2016 is looking to be the year of soybeans. Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist, is predicting corn acreage to be 1.5% to 2% lower and soybean acreage to be around 2% higher for the Midwest’s 2016 growing season. With ...
Although the preference for Australian over US coal continues, US high vol B is still holding its own in the market. Some buyers are now looking to the next benchmark with expectations of a fall from the current $89/mt FOB Australia. One ...
Tags: coal, high vol B coal
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA, which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has launched seven new products – four new power amplifiers and three ...
Tags: Qorvo, small-cell, Power Amplifiers, Duplexer
New Zealand and Australian milk exports are expected to rise following the end of China's one-child policy, writes IndustryEdge MD Tim Woods. There are expectations of six million additional births in China per year, from 2017, for at ...
New Zealand's Anchor Cream has reached the Aussie market, with packaging designed to stand out on-shelf. Specifically targeting foodies and home chefs, the range has markers on the side of the bottle to ensure precise pouring and easy ...
Tags: Screw-top lids, matte labels, Anchor, Cream
Beef might be off the Christmas menu for many Australians this year with prices continuing to rise dramatically. Over the past year, Australian domestic beef prices have more than doubled with drought hitting Australian farms hard. Yet, ...
Tags: Beef, Meat Prices, Lamb, Bacon
Faced with the chaotic price wars in LED market, Edison Opto has been striving to introduce more high efficiency products in order to strengthen its market position. One of its new advantaged products is PLCC 2835 HE Series. It features ...
Tags: Edison Opto, LED market, lighting
Swiss chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut has acquired Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Company Limited in Ghana. Nyonkopa will be incorporated into the Biolands Group, which is Barry Callebaut's direct sourcing organization. Nyonkopa Cocoa ...
Tags: Barry Callebaut, Nyonkopa, Cocoa
IKEA announced today that as of September 1, 2015, all IKEA stores will only sell LED bulbs and lighting to enable customers to live a more sustainable life at home. This bold move was announced in 2012 and IKEA is pleased it has met its ...
Tags: IKEA, LED Bulbs, LED lighting
Looking at the expansive crossover landscape today, Toyota can proudly point to the first RAV4 as the pioneering model two decades ago. The RAV4 was a new kind of vehicle that combined SUV versatility with car-like handling, ride comfort ...
Tags: Toyota, hybrid vehicle, Rav4 Hybrid 014
The water levels on the Rhine hit critically low levels this week, which threatened to send the cost of transporting and handling a range of oil and chemicals even higher after several months of rising costs. Freight and logistics costs ...
Tags: Rhine, transporting, Oil, Petchem
Hard disk drive (HDD) makers Western Digital and Seagate have announced their financial results for the third quarter and both makers are seeing their PC business revenue contributions weaken. PC HDDs only contributed about 34% of Western ...
Tags: HDD, PC, Seagate, storage, Western Digital
For third-quarter 2015, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, hybrid photonic
The Center for Disease Prevention (CDC), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have issued a warning to food companies to be more proactive in preventing food-borne diseases after a new data shows ...
Tags: Food-Borne Diseases, Food Industry