It’s reported that the Taiwanese steel pipe makers announced to raise prices by NT$300~NT$500/ton for January in order to reflect higher input costs. Chung Hung Steel, the major upstream raw material supplier to the Taiwanese steel ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy, Taiwan
Handloom weavers in India, under the banner of the All-India Federation of Handloom Organizations, will hold ‘Banashankari yatra’ against the mechanization of handlooms in the country. Speaking at a press conference, P ...
Given the rise in double digit inflation, soaring raw material prices and fuel cost, Secunderabad-based yarns producer Suryalata Spinning Mills Limited continued to find trading conditions difficult in the first six months of current ...
During the past two decades, the installation of latest technology textile machinery has taken place in huge numbers. This has created a demand for quality textile spares & retrofitting assemblies to help the user achieve their set targets ...
KH Muniyappa, India’s Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, said there is a need to follow Chinese model for promoting indigenous Indian products like khadi. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Khadi ...
Tags: Promoting Khadi, Chinese Model
Flash memory is fantastic stuff. It's small, it's fast, and it's robust. It's also absurdly expensive if you want a lot of it, which is at odds with our evolving media-hungry mobile lifestyle. Google, Apple, and Amazon would like us to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
today’s yarn markets, an inadequate piecing quality alone can cause an otherwise high-quality yarn not being accepted in downstream processing. For the new Rieter R 35 semi-automated rotor spinning machine the renowned AMIspin ...
Tags: Piecing of Yarn, Rieter R 35
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the country’s exports of hot rolled coils (HRC) totaled 113,492 tons in November, jumping by 72% from 65,803 tons in October while remaining almost unchanged in ...
Tags: HRC, metallurgy
NYMEX February crude settled $1.48 lower at $93.96/barrel Friday, as a large draw in stockpiles was overshadowed by a sharp drop off in product demand and rising distillate stocks. ICE February Brent settled 89 cents lower at $106.89/b. ...
Tags: stockpiles, crude, Mineral
The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday dropped 13.58 cents, or 12.47%, to a seven-week low of $0.9535/gallon, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data ...
Tags: Ethanol Output, Chemicals
Iron ore prices could continue to trade above $130/dry mt CFR North China in the first quarter of 2014, after higher-than-expected steel production in China supported them last year, Macquarie analysts said Thursday. "We believe Q1 2014 ...
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A consortium of Taiwanese companies is proposing to build a petrochemicals complex in China's Fujian province with state-owned Sinopec, Taiwan's Commercial Times newspaper reported Friday. The report said six Taiwanese companies, ...
Tags: Petrochemicals Complex, Chemicals
China's oil demand in November fell 2.1 percent year-on-year to an average 9.9 million barrels a day, according to a report by Platts that was based on China's latest government data. It is the second time that China's oil demand declined ...
Tags: Oil Demand, Energy
The cargo throughput of the five-tier ship lock of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, in Central China set a new record last year, the operator of the ship lock said. The throughput jumped 15.4 percent year on ...
Tags: Gorges Dam, hydropower project
China's Shougang Group plans to maintain its crude steel output at 33 million mt in 2014 amid uncertainties on steel prices, a company source said Friday. The state-owned steelmaker has six 2,500-cubic meter blast furnaces at Caofeidian, ...
Tags: Shougang, Crude Steel Output