Northwest European styrene monomer prices fell $91.50/mt or 5.5% from the start of May to close Thursday at a one-year low of $1,553.50/mt FOB ARA, Platts data showed. The last time it was lower was April 23, 2013 at $1,544.50/mt FOB ARA. ...
Tags: Styrene, polystyrene
German PVC producer Vestolit expects European polyvinyl chloride (PVC) demand to grow at a pace of 2-3% a year, following years of contraction, amid a revival in the construction sector, company CEO Michael Trager said Monday. Over 60% of ...
Tags: PVC Demand, economic crisis
"We obviously want to establish a clear lead in terms of product performance," said Groupe Michelin General Partner and CEO Jean-Dominique Senard. At Groupe Michelin's annual shareholders meeting, shareholders adopted all of the ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories, Tire, Tyre
Neither component leadtimes nor pricing seem poised to budge during the month of May, according to Avnet Electronics Marketing’s Market and Technology Trends report. But buyers shouldn’t be deceived by the apparent stability: ...
Tags: Component Trends, Electronics
Ford has reported growth in its sales across Europe rose in April 2014, marking the 11th straight month of year-over-year sales improvement and fifth successive month of market share gains. Overall, Ford sold 99,700 vehicles in April in ...
Tags: European Sale, Ford
The Turkish subsidiary of Deutsche Messe based in Hannover, Germany – is launching a new trade fair in Turkey dedicated to machine-made carpets. The new show will be held in Gaziantep from 26 to 29 May 2014 as the DOMOTEX ...
Tags: Deutsche Messe, Carpet
Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Dongbei Special Steel Group Co. has announced that on May 19 it plans to issue its first short-term bonds in the current year, worth a total of RMB 700 million ($114 million) and for a term of 365 ...
Tags: Special Steel, steelmaker
Chinese steelmaker Shandong Iron and Steel Group (Shandong Steel) has announced that on May 16 it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 300 million ($49 million) for a term of 365 days, in its third short-term bond issue in the current ...
Tags: Shandong Steel, Iron, Steel
Going long on lead and short on copper continues to be a solid investment strategy in 2014, particularly as lead tilts toward a supply deficit and copper toward surplus, investment bank BNP Paribas said Thursday. Despite lead's ...
Strong domestic mill pricing appears to be filtering, slowly but surely, through the supply chain, market sources said Tuesday. Service centers have no choice but to increase their pricing for end-users, though realized prices are still ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, Downstream Markets
According to the 2013 fiscal year, the United States consumer products safety commission total monitoring more than 14000 batches of imported consumer goods, seized 12.5 million pieces of consumer goods without the requirements of the ...
Tags: Lead-Based Goods, Imports Goods, Service, Customs
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-diamond wafers have been proven by Raytheon Company to significantly outperform ...
Tags: GaN-on-Diamond Wafers, GaN-on-SiC
Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Tokyo have created electronic devices that become soft when implanted inside the body and can deploy to grip 3-D objects, such as large tissues, nerves and blood ...
AVX has announced the addition of new high-temperature X8RThe main differences between ceramic dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen for its ability to permit electrostatic attraction ...
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RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched a new family of low-noise amplifiers (LNA) capable of high gain and broadband performance between 9kHz and 18GHz frequencies, which ...
Tags: LNA GaAs pHEMT, Electrical, Electronics