US spot benzene shed 5 cents Wednesday to land at $4.29/gal ($1,282.71/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast, its lowest assessed level in six weeks, as slower chemical demand and an oversupplied market put downward pressure on prices, sources said. Spot ...
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Styrolution Europe has raised operating rates at its acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plant at Antwerp, Belgium to 80-85% capacity in June, a company source said Wednesday. The 250,000 mt/year ABS unit was running at 70-75% capacity in ...
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The Eighteenth Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition has just concluded. Reporters learned from the exhibition that the situation of LED lighting industry is better than last year, but the overcapacity still exists. Industry experts ...
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According to the survey jointly conducted by LEDinside and AVANTI, the proportion that Chinese consumers can cognitive LED bulbs clear is only 25%, enhancing consumer awareness is still the key for the popularization of LED lighting. In ...
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Market for fiber optics sensors to hit $4bn by 2017 13 Jun 2013 Continuous distributed and point fiber optics sensors increasingly deployed to replace conventional gauges. Sales of fiber optic sensors will grow at an annual rate of 20.3% ...
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LED lighting in buildings to reach $25bn by 2017 13 Jun 2013 Report reviews the future of emerging technologies that are "driving change in the LED value chain". Memoori of the future: The report reviews the prospects for LEDs in ...
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LED lighting was once considered as a sunrise industry with unlimited prospect; however, the blind expansion of production capacity has caused this industry into the winter. According to the report released by Guangdong Guangya Lighting ...
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Following a slight increase in turnover of 0.6% in January and a decline of 3.6% in February, businesses engaged in the German timber business closed out March with a sharp year-on-year decrease in revenues of 10.4% to €1.202bn. The ...
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Billings plunged 32% compared to corresponding quarter in 2012 Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings have reached $ 7.31bn during the first quarter of 2013, according to a SEMI's latest report. The report revealed that ...
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Imerys Filtration Minerals Inc will increase prices for products shipped within North America from 1 July 2013. The 2–8% increase, subject to any provisions in individual contracts, will apply across all diatomite, perlite, ...
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It is reported that Chile domestic market's rebar shipping quantity in this April was 54,842 metric tons, hiking by 11.3% M-O-M and 9% Y-O-Y. The total rebar shipping quantity from this January to April in Chile was 216,149 tons, also ...
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Feng Hsin, one of the major steel long product makers in Taiwan, announced to remain its list prices for rebar, section steel and scraps unchanged for this week. The company released its list prices for rebar at NT$17,000/ton; those for ...
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Hollingsworth & Vose has announced price increases for its filtration media products used in the engine and transportation industries and other selected filtration media. The price increases are due to rising raw material costs, ...
Global packaging machinery production value stood at around US$48 billion in 2012, following robust growth of 10 percent that year. Over 2006-2012, production growth averaged 7percent annually in spite of more than a 5 percent year-on-year ...
Taiwan-based green energy firm Delta Electronics held a shareholders meeting on June 7, 2013, during which it decided to deal out 2012 cash dividend of NT$5.3 (US$0.18) per share. Delta reported 2012 consolidated revenues around ...
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