Aviation biofuel's newly minted ability to generate tradable US renewables credits, known as RINs, may be key to the industry's economics, according to market watchers. "The availability of RINs is a critical bridge to commercial ...
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Canadian Natural Resources' production averaged 489,157 barrels a day in first-quarter 2013, up nearly 24% from 395,461 b/d in the same period a year ago on record output from both its heavy oil and oil sands assets in Alberta, the company ...
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Automakers make routine price adjustments to respond to market forces or account for increased production costs. In an interesting move, Nissan lowered the prices substantially on seven models to help them appear in search results when ...
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Output of global yarn production plummeted in Q4/2012 in comparison to the previous one due to lower output in Asia, North and South America, while production in Europe increased. Also year-on-year global yarn production dropped as a ...
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Royal Dutch Shell, Japan's Mitsubishi and Iraqi state-owned South Gas Company have launched a long-delayed project to capture and market gas from some of Iraq's biggest oil fields, Shell said Wednesday, adding that it would be the largest ...
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US-based Rudi’s Organic Bakery has completed the expansion of its bakery in Boulder, Colorado, in response to the increasing consumer demand. The expanded bakery will allow Rudi's Organic to increase production of both its Rudi's ...
Back-end segment and the wafer-level packaging (WLP)-related segments ruled the semiconductor market during the year Global semiconductor capex on manufacturing equipment declined 16.1% during 2012 to $37.8bn compared to 2011, according ...
Russia's second largest coking coal producer Raspadskaya has stated that in the first quarter of the current year its sales of coal concentrate increased by 49 percent year on year to 1.4 million mt, while its sales of run-of-mine coal ...
Glass packaging company Allied Glass Containers has completed an investment program at its Knottingley site in the UK, which involved the rebuild of a complete melter and forehearth. The project was initiated in January and resulted in a ...
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Birmingham, Alabama-based coal producer Walter Energy, Inc. said Thursday that performance in Q1 2013 improved over Q4 2012, driven largely by increased metallurgical coal sales volume and pricing, increased production and lower costs. ...
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The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has acknowledged the country s need to increase the production of cement in order to achieve self-sufficiency in the fields of construction and rebuilding. During a speech made by the PM at the opening ...
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Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced that it has signed a contract with a consortium of companies comprising Austria-based Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GmbH and US-based ...
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China is the world's largest silk producer. In 2005, it accounted for 74 percent of the global raw silk production and 90 percent of the world export market. Local governments have and are continuing to introduce new facilities that are ...
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In March this year, Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal's finished steel product output increased by 4.7 percent to 278,800 mt, while its crude steel production increased by 0.7 percent to 328,700 mt, both year on year, according to the ...
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Adding a pigment color to a dynamic mixer that is also used for non-colored products creates color contamination of the wetted parts and results in increased labor as well as production time and yield losses that directly affect the bottom ...
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