GyroWash, from James Heal, is used to determine colour fastness to washing, dry cleaning and chlorinated water of textile and leather samples and as the test vessels are interchangeable, testing can be carried out to both European (ISO) and ...
Tags: Textiles, Colour Fastness
An expected surplus of gasoil in Asia from greenfield and upgraded refineries might flow into the marine fuel market in late 2014 or early 2015, trade sources said Wednesday. Asia's maritime industry is looking to the possible supply as ...
Tags: Gasoil, Fuel Market, greenfield
Eight thousand solar panels have been installed on the roof of Wolseley UK's National Distribution Centre (NDC) in Leamington Spa, capable of generating enough electricity to power around 450 homes a year*. Wolseley UK is part of Wolseley ...
Tags: Solar, solar panels
According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE), the country's trade balance indicated a $4.19 billion surplus in March this year. Meanwhile, in the first three months ...
Tags: Construction, Steel
The US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total February exports of $190.4 billion and imports of $232.7 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $42.3 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to a report released Thursday by Statistics Canada, Canada's merchandise exports grew 3.6 percent and imports were up 2.1 percent in February. As a result, Canada's trade balance with the world went from a deficit of $337 million ...
EFIC has examined the dynamics behind Australia's trade surplus that reached $1.4b in January, its highest level in nearly 2 years. "Export values have surged, driven by increases in rural and resource export volumes. This is despite ...
Low-sulfur crude grades in the North Sea have dropped to more than four-month lows on differentials versus Dated Brent on pressure from competing grades in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, Norwegian North Sea crude grade Ekofisk hit a ...
Tags: Low-sulfur crude, refinery, crude
In February of the current year, Turkey's steel imports declined by 21.2 percent to 958,000 mt, while the value of these imports decreased by 13 percent to $877 million, both on year-on-year basis, according to the data released by the ...
Tags: steel imports, iron, steel
Global copper supply is expected to remain in surplus in 2014 and continue to exert downward pressure on prices, Australia's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics forecast in its March quarter report. "Although consumption is forecast ...
Tags: Copper, copper supply, Copper prices
ArcelorMittal Brasil, Brazilian subsidiary of global steelmaker ArcelorMittal, has announced its financial results for 2013, indicating that the surplus of global steel production capacity is over 570 million mt, which still presents risks ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
EU carbon dioxide allowances crashed to a nine-month low Friday, as speculators unwound long positions ahead of data due next week and expected to signal weak demand, traders said. EU Allowance futures contracts for December 2014 delivery ...
US Gulf Coast crude stocks climbed to their highest level on record in the week that ended Friday, hitting 200.3 million barrels, as growing pipeline capacity from Cushing, Oklahoma, sends barrels surging south, according to data released ...
Tags: Crude Stocks, pipeline capacity, refinery
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
Prompt prices on the UK's NBP gas trading hub fell Friday morning as the system saw a large supply surplus and warm, sunny weather expected for the weekend should further cut heating demand. "The system was the longest I've seen it," one ...
Tags: gas storage, Oversupply