In April this year, Japan's industrial production decreased by 2.5 percent from March and rose by 4.1 percent from April 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
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Prices for seaborne iron ore strengthened further Wednesday, tracking stronger restocking needs by buyers eager to procure raw materials when the market is recovering. Platts assessed the 62% Fe IODEX at $95/dry mt CFR North China, up ...
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Northwest European spot styrene values rallied $45/mt or 3% Wednesday morning in reaction to the fire that broke out at Ellba's styrene monomer/propylene oxide plant at Moerdijk, the Netherlands. Styrene end-users and consumers stepped ...
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Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis have fallen amid thin trade after news Qingdao port had halted shipments of aluminum and copper amid a probe into loan irregularities ...
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US exports of ethanol in April totaled 251 million liters (66 million gallons), down 21% from March, but 62% above those of April 2013, according to US Census Bureau data released Wednesday. The data includes all ethanol types except for ...
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Members of the Argentinian Biofuels Association, or CARBIO, exported 48,960 mt of biodiesel in April, a 42.4% month-on-month fall and a drop of 42.1% compared with a year earlier, according to data from the industry body Wednesday. CARBIO ...
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Outbound shipments of Eagle Ford Shale crude and condensate through the Port of Corpus Christi rose to 445,615 b/d in April from 289,987 b/d in April 2013, the most recent data released by the port showed. April shipments also rose 3% ...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency's proposed carbon emissions guidelines issued Monday would have the biggest impact on Appalachian and Powder River Basin thermal coal producers, though the latter may be able to soften the impact if ...
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Global refined cobalt supply totaled 85,904 mt in 2013, up around 11% from 77,189 mt in 2012, the Cobalt Development Institute said Wednesday in the latest edition of its cobalt news publication. The report, based on the main sources ...
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Domestic demand for propane and propylene in the US declined 30% last week, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. At the same time, US propane and propylene stocks increased by 3.686 million barrels to 45.77 million ...
Danish toy firm secures logistics partner for its launch into the British market. Danish toy company Upcoming Minds has appointed Import Services as its logistics partner for its launch into the British market. The UK expansion will see ...
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DuPont has approval for a probiotic health claim in Switzerland US-based agriculture and nutrition technology company DuPont has won approval for a probiotic health claim in Switzerland, saying it is the first ingredient company to ...
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In booth #1515 at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2014), API Technologies Corp of Orlando, FL, USA, a designer and manufacturer of systems, subsystems, modules and components for RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, ...
Due to new components, power electronic converters for power engineering applications are becoming even more efficient. In particular, silicon carbide (SiC) devices enable the construction of extremely efficient and compact power electronic ...
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In booth #1933B at the LightFair International 2014 exhibition in Las Vegas (3-5 June), LatticePower of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China – which claims to be the first firm to commercialize gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) LEDs ...