Ferrous scrap prices held stable Friday as market participants, waiting for an industry conference next week to give clarity to price direction, reported no deals or firm offers. Platts' daily assessment Friday stood at $360/mt CFR ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Mineral
Välinge Innovation is pleased to announce the extension of its cooperation with Jiangsu Shengmao Plastic Products Co. The license agreement with the Chinese company was extended to the use of Välinge's patented technologies for ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Americas Styrenics has declared force majeure on polystyrene resin after a power outage at its plant in Torrance, Calif. The Sept. 15 outage was "a total power failure," PS business director Tim Barnette said in a Sept. 17 statement. ...
Tags: Polystyrene, Styrenics
The State Council, China's cabinet, on Sunday issued a guideline on exploration of coal bed gas. Subsidies from central government shall be raised in the sector, with full consideration on costs and prices in extracting coal bed gas, said ...
Tags: Coal Bed Gas, Mineral
AATCC has developed a new digitally-printed Stain Release Replica for use with AATCC Test Method (TM) 130, Soil Release: Oily Stain Release Method. The new Stain Release Replica was developed by the Association's RA56 Stain Release ...
The FOB Houston propane differential has dropped 53% since July 1 as increasing exports and falling international propane prices narrow the arbitrage out of the Gulf Coast. Platts started assessing FOB Houston propane cargoes on July 1 as ...
China imported 755,939 mt of iron ore from India in August, up 49% from 506,322 mt in July, according to data released Monday by the General Administration of Customs. The increase comes on the back of Indian government talks of a ...
Suffolk-based Spectra Packaging has introduced an "environmentally friendly biopolymer" to its range of products. According to the company, it can now offer its customers plastic packaging made from ethanol from sugarcane as opposed to ...
Chinese drivers will have to pay more in fuel prices amid the country's drive to reduce air pollution through upgraded fuel quality. In the next two years, the prices of motor gasoline and diesel which meet the national 'fourth-phase' ...
Tags: Pricing Policy, Greener Fuel
China's gasoil exports in August hit an almost 17-month low of 70,000 mt, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs late Monday. The volumes were the lowest since March 2012, when China exported 60,000 mt of ...
Tags: Gasoil Exports, Chemicals
France is to use profits from nuclear power plants along with a new carbon tax to help fund growth in renewable power and energy efficiency, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraut said Saturday. In a speech in Paris marking the end of France's ...
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Samsung announced on September 23rd that the patent dispute with LG has finally come to an end. The two South Korean firms decided that the best method for solving the dispute was to put aside differences and cooperate instead. Last ...
Tags: Samsung, OLED Patent
The compact Oslon Black Flat LED can serve in headlamp or daytime-running-lamp applications while the Ostar Headlamp Pro integrates five emitters for adaptive beam control. Osram Opto Semiconductors has announced two new LED families for ...
Tags: Automotive Headlamps, Lighting
China’s LED chip manufacturer HC Semitek Corp. Suzhou branch has received a US$ 150 million loan to be paid back in six years for its LED business, according to a Chinese-language Reuters report. China Development Bank’s ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED Business
Contract IC fabricator TowerJazz and power management IC vendor DMB Technology have announced an AC-LED driver IC while analog IC specialist Linear Technology has developed a DC LED driver with spread-spectrum frequency modulation that ...
Tags: LED Driver ICs, 110V Controller