Vivergo, the UK's largest ethanol producer by capacity, said Wednesday that profitability at its 420,000 cubic meter/year (111 million gallon/year) plant at Hull in northeast England has been "adversely affected" by the lowest spot prices ...
US chlor-alkali plants operated at 81% of capacity in March, the lowest rate since October's level of 79%, data released Wednesday by the Chlorine Institute showed. The operating rate was down two percentage points from February. The ...
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China's Shandong Chiping Xinfa Group has raised the aluminum production capacity at its Xinjiang smelter by 550,000 mt/year, or 69%, to 1.35 million mt/year as planned in early April, a company source said Tuesday. The prevailing weak ...
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The Landree underground steam coal mine in southern Indiana is back in production and its new owners intend to resume shipments to Indianapolis Power & Light in May, a company official confirmed Wednesday. "We started running coal last ...
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Ukraine's natural gas output in March fell 5.6% year-on-year to 1.68 billion cubic meters, from 1.78 Bcm in March 2013, an energy and coal industry ministry official said Wednesday, citing preliminary figures. Production fell after the ...
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The US steel sheet market continued to report offers from producers above published minimum base prices, as mills look to keep upward pressure on pricing amid supply tightness. Buy-side sources reported higher offers from multiple mills ...
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Domestic spot prices of high carbon ferrochrome (50% basis Cr) in China were unchanged week-on-week at Yuan 6,600-6,800/mt (81-83.5 cents/lb) delivered with 17% VAT on Wednesday as the market waited for May purchase prices from the ...
US ethanol stocks for the week ended April 18 moved up 566,000 barrels to a seven-week high of 16.518 million barrels, despite a production dip of 29,000 b/d to 910,000 b/d, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. While ...
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With a respective growth of over 14 percent, the 5th leading international trade fair for industrial coating technology held from 8th to 11th April 2014 reached new records regarding the number of exhibitors and visitors. However, PaintExpo ...
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BASF sponsored and participated in the 2014 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress, April 8-10, at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. As among the leading chemical supplier to the automotive industry, BASFoffered ...
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Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on April 22 in a regulatory filing that it would acquire assets of Samsung Fine Chemicals producing ceramic powders, the source material for multi-layer ceramic capacitorsThe main differences between ceramic ...
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Mallard Creek Polymers, Inc. (MCP) continues to expand the markets for the company's extensive line of acrylic polymer emulsions. Recently, fast dry traffic paint latex, Rovene 6131, and an anti-blocking emulsion, Rovene 6122, have been ...
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Taiwan-based panel makers are expected to hold an over 50% market share in the Ultra HD TV panel market in 2014 while Korea-based makers are expected to hold 40%. Taiwan makers' spot comes as they continue to develop new Ultra HD TV ...
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Laser Encoders Enable High-Accuracy Machining of Composite Parts Flow International Corp.'s Composites Machining Center (CMC) hits the mark for single-setup processing of 40-meter-long composite wing skins, and one of the keys to holding ...
Deckers Outdoor Corp. reported sales increased 11.7 percent in its three-month transition period ended Mar. 31, to $294.7 million, led by a 15.8 percent gain for Ugg. Deckers showed a loss of $2.7 million, or 8 cents a share, better than ...
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