Gas prices on the European prompt markets fell sharply Wednesday, extending the previous day's steep losses, on reduced demand and increased Norwegian flows. The day-ahead gas contract in the Netherlands TTF hub traded below Tuesday's ...
Low-sulfur crude grades in the North Sea have dropped to more than four-month lows on differentials versus Dated Brent on pressure from competing grades in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, Norwegian North Sea crude grade Ekofisk hit a ...
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Gold could have further to go on the downside as physical buying is still lacking, according to a research note published by Swiss bank UBS Wednesday. "Gold reached our one-month forecast of $1,280 this week. Despite its $100 decline from ...
Tags: Gold, Physical Buying, physical demand
Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) announced plans to again expand 2-EH capacity at its Longview, Texas, site. The expansion will increase capacity by approximately 20,000 metric tons per year. The company expects to complete the expansion ...
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While current traded prices for L8 and L10 steelmaking pig iron in northern China's Hebei province have slipped since March 3, the market is likely to see higher traded values in the coming weeks with some offers seen rising by as much as ...
Tags: Pig Iron, steel mills, Iron
At the Light + Building 2014 tradefair in Frankfurt, Germany (30 March - 4 April), Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan – founded in 2008 as a subsidiary of display panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) – has debuted ...
Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of solid-state light sources for lighting applications, says that its new Vero Series LED array light source will be backed with what it claims is the world's first ...
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Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting (SSL) applications, announced the release to mass production of its new XNOVA line of mid-power LEDs developed for the ...
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The U.S. EPA has signed a pair of consent agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy and two contractors to resolve alleged violations of federal asbestos handling regulations at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. Today's ...
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Today, Entergy New Orleans received the Partner of the Year award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for strategically and comprehensively managing their energy use. This organization promoted Energy Star products and practices ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Bhaskar Dutta, CEO of the Omani steel and pipe manufacturer Al Jazeera Steel, stated that rebar consumption in the GCC countries is expected to rise to 12 ...
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Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel Group (WISCO) has signed a cooperation agreement with Zhangye municipal government in China's Gansu Province for the construction of a project which will have an annual output ...
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As smart technologies proliferate in the modern world, the industry is experiencing a widening gap between coming up with ideas and having the ability to execute them. "If we look at product innovation across the electronics industry and ...
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A powerful network of supercomputers will be built in Japan over the next decade, centered around a next-generation exascale machine and coordinated with projects designed to boost industrial use of the technology. This policy vision, ...
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Retirees are "more nutritionally aware" but still a enjoy a glass of wine As life after retirement often equates to more time spent at home, eating in can take on new meaning for older consumers who may now have more time to cook and may ...
Tags: Baking products, shopping baskets, Agriculture, Food