The monsoon has set in over all the agriculture belts in India and has covered the water scarcity faced by the farmers in very little time. The cotton markets are seeing a clear drop in prices in spite of the very low good quality unsold ...
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The Kavian petrochemical plant in Iran can quadruple its output and increase it to two million tons per annum after it receives sufficient feedstock from South Pars gas field, FARS News Agency reported quoting the Ministry of Petroleum. ...
The packaged food, drink and grocery product manufacturers in New South Wales, Australia, are set to launch a new program to increase the recycling of bottles and plastic drink containers in the state. The program, which will see the ...
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ArcelorMittal’s Lázaro Cárdenas steel plant expects to close 2014 with a production of about 4 million tons of crude steel, of which about 1.2 million tons will comprise finished products--rebar and wire rod--according ...
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WACKER POLYMERS is to raise its prices for vinyl acetate-ethylene and ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions of the VINNAPAS and VINNOL brand in the regions Americas and Greater China. As customer contracts allow, effective ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in June this year South Africa's manufacturing output increased by 0.5 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the increase included the ...
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Registration is now open for the seventh edition of Labelexpo India. South Asia’s premier label and package printing exhibition, it returns to Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 29 October – 1 November and will be bigger than ever ...
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With the football fever gripping the nation like never before, Myntra.com, India’s leading fashion hub, is metamorphosing itself into a football fan’s paradise. After the launch of its dedicated ‘Football Store’, ...
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In July this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 7.39 percent compared to June and were up 35.59 percent year on year, totaling 36.08 million metric tons. The figure constitutes a 4.8 percent rise from Port ...
Carton packaging and filling machine supplier SIG Combibloc’s Brazilian packaging plant has commenced operation of an extrusion line which laminates unprocessed cardboard for the company’s carton packs on-site. This is said ...
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Jiangxi province in South China produced 651,000 mt of refined copper in the first half of 2014, up 11% year on year, the Jiangxi government said Monday. H1 copper products output rose 16% year on year to 1.33 million mt, and refined tin ...
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South Louisiana Methanol LP (SLM) announced that it has received the required air permit from the LDEQ and the State of Louisiana to construct and operate the SLM methanol facility in St. James Parish, Louisiana. “This represents a ...
South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 67,293 mt in May this year, increasing by 39.6 percent compared to April, but down 48.5 percent from ...
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On July 14, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in June this year China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) issued iron ore import licenses for a total of 104.9787 million mt, up 5.34 percent month on month, valued at ...
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In May this year, Japan's iron and steel product exports amounted to 3.53 million metric tons, increasing by 8.9 percent month on month, but down four percent year on year, while Japan's iron and steel product imports totaled 738,996 metric ...
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