Dairy co-operative Fonterra has commissioned a new dryer at its Lichfield’s site in South Waikato, New Zealand. The 30 metric tonne dryer can process an additional 4.4 million litres of milk each day into milk powder which Fonterra ...
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US-based food processing company Cargill is investing $100m to double its soybean crush operation in Borg El Arab in order to meet the increasing demand in Egypt for soybean meal and oil. The company will construct 42,000 metric tonne ...
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GP Cellulose announced it is supporting UNICEF's water, sanitation and hygiene programs in China through an initiative called Green Hand Project, which will help improve conditions in schools for approximately 15,000 children. GP ...
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DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective Oct. 1, 2013, or as contracts allow, as ...
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Oman Cement Co, which had shut down one of its cement mills for repairs nearly a month ago, has said that the necessary repairs have been carried out successfully in-house and by availing locally facilities, Muscat Daily has reported. The ...
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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 ...
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List prices for INEOS ChlorVinyls caustic soda are to increase by Euro 35 per dry metric tonne with effect from 1st July 2013. INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, speciality chemicals and oil products. It comprises 15 ...
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Nepal s largest cement industry, the Udayapur Cement Industry, has increased its production for the past few days. The 800 metric tonne per day capacity industry had been only producing 450 metric tonnes as machines were not in sound ...
Bloomberg reported that the Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity shipping costs, rose for the first time since November, lifted by gains for the largest vessels as miners sought charters to export iron ore or coal from Australia. ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute, in November 2012 Turkey's stainless flat steel imports rose by 7.5% compared to the previous month and were up 9.25% compared to November 2011, amounting to 29,793 metric ...
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According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's ferroalloy imports totaled 152,273 metric tonne in November 2012, increasing by 12.2% month on month and almost stable compared to November 2011. Meanwhile, in the ...
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's nickel ore imports totaled 437,100 tonne in November this year, rising by 0.5% MoM and up 30.7% compared to November 2011. Meanwhile, in the first 11 months of 2012, ...
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Copper rose for a third day in London as Chinese services industries expanded at the fastest pace in four months, bolstering prospects for an economic rebound in the world’s biggest consumer of the metal. China’s statistics ...
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Bloomberg reported that to the price of iron ore delivered China, the largest importer, climbed to a 14 month high in what Credit Suisse Group AG described as one last hoorah. According to the Steel Index, ore with 62% content at the ...
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Bloomberg reported that China, buyer of 65% of the world’s iron ore cargoes, expanded the destinations it got the commodity from this year with the first reported spot shipments from Oman, the Philippines and Sierra Leone. According ...
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