The online sales of textiles and apparel grew by a sharp 32 percent year-on-year in 2013, and accounted for 2 percent of the total turnover of the domestic textile sector, which includes textiles, apparel footwear, accessories and home ...
Enterprise Products Partners offered more details on its Texas Gulf Coast ethane export terminal during a first-quarter earnings call Thursday. Enterprise, which has hinted at an ethane terminal project for over six months, announced ...
Tags: Chemicals
US propylene inventories at the end of first quarter of 2014 were 3.6% higher than year-ago levels and 1.5% above stocks at the end of the previous quarter, revised data from the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers trade group ...
Tags: Propylene, propylene production
The price of platinum is forecast to average $1,457/oz in 2014, 2% down from the 2013 average of $1,487/oz, as strike action has failed to give the metal any meaningful lift so far, metals consultancy GFMS said Friday in a report. "The ...
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Steel is still expected to remain the main material of choice for carmakers, as shifting to aluminium is a costly process and Asian markets are unlikely to be open to taking on these costs, according to a report published Friday by ...
Tags: Aluminium, Auto-Making, Steel
The US imported 525 million gallons of biomass-based diesel in 2013, nearly 10 times the 2012 total of 61 million gallons, the Energy Information Administration data said Friday. The substantial growth reflected increased demand to ...
Tags: Diesel Imports, Biomass-Based Diesel, biodiesel production
New records for exhibitor numbers and exhibition space Presenting innovations and trends in the environmental technology sector at IFAT 2014 between May 5 and 9, was a total of 3,081 exhibitors from 59 countries (2012: 2,939 ...
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India's natural gas demand is forecast to more than double to 516.97 million cubic meters/day in fiscal 2021-22, according to a report commissioned by an oil ministry regulatory body. Demand in fiscal 2016-17 is forecast at 378.06 million ...
Tags: Natural Gas, natural gas demand
China Molybdenum produced 3,749 mt of moly concentrates in the first quarter of 2014, at a cash production cost of Yuan 64,453/mt ($10,307/mt), the Henan based producer said in its quarterly report Monday without providing a year-on-year ...
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Average silver prices in 2014 are expected to slip to around $20.440/oz from the 2013 average of $23.750/oz because of rising supply and weaker investment demand, analysts with the New York-based CPM Group said Tuesday. "Silver prices are ...
Tags: Silver Price, Rising Supply
Ukraine has closed its anti-dumping investigation into imports of suspension PVC from the US without imposing any duties, the interagency commission for international trade said in a report published by the government's official Uriadoviy ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping, PVC, Imposing Duties
Nigeria has emerged as the second-largest importer of US jet fuel and has also started bringing in atypical US kerosene barrels, according to data released Tuesday by the US Energy Information Administration. Nigeria imported 864,000 ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the City of Dallas and AT&T Stadium, Rock and Wrap It Up! and Food Source DFW have joined together to cut the amount of food that goes to waste. During the recent NCAA Final Four activities in ...
Tags: EPA, Certification
Moody's has changed its outlook for the global shipping industry to stable from negative on April 30. This outlook reflects Moody's expectations for the fundamental business conditions in the industry over the next 12 to 18 months. ...
Tags: Shipping, Global Shipping
Oyxlane, the French parent company of Decathlon, reported sales increased 6.1 percent in 2013 to €7.4 billion ($9.8 bn) in 2013 on comparable store sales growth of 1.3 percent. Sales had risen 7.2 percent to €7.0 billion in 2012 ...