Lawrence Norman, former vice president of Adidas Global Basketball, has been named Adidas South Europe managing director. Zion Armstrong, formerly managing director of Adidas Group South Korea, as Adidas Brand director in North America. ...
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Turkey-based steel producer Karabük Demir Celik (Kardemir) has announced that it has signed a credit facility with Germany's KfW IPEX Bank to finance the foreign expenses regarding its railway wheel mill investment. Repayments will ...
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The Chinese thermal coal market is seeing some positive fundamental trends in the near term, helped by coal investment cuts, production declines and a slowdown in imports, even as seasonal weakness is expected to weigh on the market, an ...
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According to the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), in the Jan.-Apr. period the island exported US$6.4 billion worth of machinery, up 8.2% year on year (YoY), thanks partly to a surge in shipments of tools to mainland China in ...
June US butadiene contract prices are expected to roll over or possibly fall slightly compared with May contract prices as spot levels have dropped throughout May, sources said Wednesday. Many sources expect a rollover in contract pricing ...
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In a further move to strengthen its leading position in the market for light-emitting diodes (LED), Osram today officially opened its LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. The factory has a floor area of about 100,000 square meters and will ...
Tags: Osram, LED Assembly Plant, LED transition
Brazil-based Gerdau Corsa opened a new mill this week in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo, Mexico with an investment of US$600 million. The facility will be fully operational by August 2014 and will have an annual installed capacity of one ...
Tags: Gerdau Corsa, Semi-Finished
The Platts LNG Japan Korea Marker for July, the newly assessed front month, began trading at $13.625/MMBtu on Friday. The marker for June fell 32.5 cents from last Friday to close at $13.625/MMBtu on Thursday amid ample supply and weak ...
Tags: LNG, Weak Demand
The Platts Australian alumina assessment fell 50 cents/mt from Friday to $315.50/mt FOB Monday, weighed down by supply overhang, tight cash flows and lack of buyers. Alumina bid/ask levels were around $310-312/mt against $316/mt FOB ...
Tags: alumina, Australian-origin cargoes
Stora Enso positions itself as the global rethinker of the biomaterials, packaging, paper and wood products industry. Its goal is to keep innovating solutions based on renewable materials for consumer goods and industrial packaging ...
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The cotton marketing season, which usually begins on July 30, is likely to begin earlier by a month on June 30, according to the Mozambique Cotton Institute (IAM), Noticias reported. It is generally observed that international cotton ...
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Ethylene flow rates on the Evangeline Pipeline are likely to improve in the coming week, trade sources said Wednesday. Flows on the pipeline, which moves ethylene from Texas into Louisiana, restarted May 8, sources said, after it had been ...
The London daily silver fixing process will cease to be operated by the current company, The London Silver Market Fixing Limited, as of August 14, it said in a statement Wednesday. The statement said that until August 14, "Deutsche Bank, ...
PV silver conductive paste is currently in short supply due to a shortage of silver powder. The shortage will continue until July-August 2014, chairman Chen Chi-jen of Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials said at a ...
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Northwest European spot prices for vinyl acetate monomer tumbled Eur70/mt Thursday under pressure from Asian imports, according to Platts data. The European spot price for VAM was assessed at Eur1,560/mt FD NWE ($2,162.63/mt), down from ...
Tags: Vinyl Acetate Monomer, NWE