New York futures advanced this week, with December gaining 146 points to close at 64.50 cents/lb, while March moved up 114 points to close at 63.02 cents/lb. Persistent spec buying lifted the December contract to a high of 66.04 cents ...
Tags: grains markets, New York futures, Textile
Inazin Power Ltd, a leading developer of large renewable energy projects in the UK, announced the successful development and management of the build and connection of a further 73 MW of large scale solar parks. Working in conjunction with ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar
The CFR China phthalic anhydride market has plunged to a three-year low amid weakness in China's real estate market, dragging South East Asian PA prices down with it, market sources said this week. PA is used to make dyes and is also a ...
Tags: Phthalic Anhydride, real estate, DOP
France must urgently implement new rules to oblige shippers to import LNG after new gas capacity auctions indicated a massive increase in prices in France's southern PEG Sud market in the coming years, intensive users group UNIDEN said late ...
Tags: LNG Imports, gas capacity, LNG terminals
European imports of polyethylene terephthalate shot up by over 30% in 2013, according to Eurostat data published this week, and market participants believe that the specter of imports continues to loom over European producers. From ...
Japanese automaker Toyota has begun the export of Highlander SUVs that are manufactured in the US to five countries including Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The company expects to export approximately 29,000 ...
Tags: Toyota, Highlander SUVs
SHIJIAZHUANG - Shijiazhuang, one of China's smoggiest cities, plans to cut coal consumption by 15 million tonnes in four years, including 4 million tonnes this year. The capital of North China's Hebei province, also plans to reduce iron ...
Tags: Coal Consumption, Metallurgy
The exports of apparel earned US$ 5.52 billion for the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia in 2013, registering a rise of sharp 20 percent over $4.61 billion exports made in 2012, reports xinhuanet.com, citing data from the Ministry of ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel
Japan's direct-burning crude oil demand for power generation has picked up since late December as a cold spell across the country has increased appetite for loadings into March in the absence of nuclear output, industry and trading sources ...
Tags: crude oil demand, power generation
On January 28, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in mid-January (Jan. 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.702 million mt, up ...
Tags: steel products, China
Australian iron ore development company BC Iron Limited has announced that in the quarter ended on December 31 it produced 1.35 million mt of iron ore, up 25 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Regarding the ...
China, facing rising human cases of the H7N9 avian flu, asked its municipalities and provinces to be on higher alert to control the disease. The National Health and Family Planning Commission, which summoned a meeting of health officials ...
News outlets in California offer examples of companies that are giving new customers more time to pay their first month's premiums while in Connecticut, one insurer is beginning to get a handle on the crush of enrollment. Los Angeles ...
Tags: Insurers, Payment Deadlines for Customers, Health&Medicine
In yesterday's BBC consumer affairs programme, Fake Britain, several leading furniture and bed retailers were involved in an investigation into product compliance with the UK's stringent fire safety regulations for furniture. Products ...
Tags: Fake Britain, fire safety regulations for furniture, furniture
Pessimists are fond of saying that no good deed goes unpunished. An Australian teenager who reported a security vulnerability in a government website and now faces legal troubles probably agrees. Joshua Rogers, a 16-year-old Victoria ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics