Malaysia's natural rubber production in April amounted to 36,261 mt, falling 13.1% from a month earlier and down 15.4% year on year, the Department of Statistics said in a statement late Thursday. Its natural rubber exports fell 7.5% from ...
The US posted a second consecutive year of record oil production growth in 2013 with its surging shale industry balancing out supply disruptions to underpin an unprecedented period of stable global oil prices, BP said Monday. US output ...
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Southern Coal Corp is seeing an uptick in demand for high-quality steam coal this year, but the metallurgical side of its business continues to lag, which is why the company has temporarily idled its Tams No 1 mine in Raleigh County, West ...
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Scarcity of feedstock acetic acid is making it difficult for European ethyl acetate producers to ramp up production and take advantage of spot prices at a three-year high, sources said Tuesday. Spot etac is trading at around ...
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The global aluminium market has seen a remarkable improvement in its fundamental outlook, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a research note Thursday. "The improvement in market balances has perhaps been most outstanding for aluminium, ...
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The Indonesian government reached a deal with lawmakers late Wednesday to revise down its targets for subsidized fuel consumption and crude production in its 2014 budget to make the figures more realistic, officials said. The measure cuts ...
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China Shenhua Energy, the listed subsidiary of the Shenhua Group, produced 25.2 million mt of commercial coal in May, down 5.6% from a year ago but up 4.1% from April, the company said late Tuesday. The company's coal sales stood at ...
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The delivery ceremony of 100 units of new mixer trucks was held on 16 June this year, which were produced by SANY Group for Chongqing Sifang Concrete Company and Sheng Hua, deputy general manager of SANY Group attended it. Annual output ...
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China heavy trucks are popular in overseas markets for their competitive prices but the exports markets are getting worse. Lacking core technology supports, China heavy trucks cannot enter European and American etc high end markets, and ...
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API Foils, supplier of metallic, pigment, holographic and cold foils, will initially install a new metalliser which it says will increase the site's capacity for the metallisation process by 150%. In early 2015 the company plans to ...
Hydroponics and organics expected blossom in a thriving agricultural sector Hydroponics, organic farming and recently secured free trade agreements are expected to deliver increased revenue for agriculture over the next five years, ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in April this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa decreased by three percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
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According to the report released by Argentina's steel chamber, in May this year the country's crude steel production was down 0.6 percent month on month and increased by 7.6 percent year on year, amounting to 482,900 metric tons. Production ...
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In May this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.8 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on June 13, with this growth rate 0.1 percentage points higher than that ...
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Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350°C (about 660°F). Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), their work could improve the ...
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