Brazilian miner Vale has announced that the Republic of Guinea has revoked the mining licenses for the Simandou and Zogota iron ore projects due to a technical committee report indicating that the mining licenses were obtained by Vale's ...
ICE Cotton futures gained almost 100 pts this week basis the N4 to settle at 93.25 c/lbs. Thursday was the soon-to-expire K4 contract's First Notice Day, which was preceded by a large drop in OI via EFP and EFS transactions, rumored to be ...
Rhodia Fibres, owned by the Solvay Group, has launched the very first biodegradable yarn in the world, which was integrated in the summer 2014/15 collection of Brazilian designer Ronaldo Fraga that was presented at the recently concluded ...
Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 24.47 million mt in March this year, increasing by 8.13 percent compared to February and up 8.39 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the information released by the Brazilian ...
Tags: Iron Ore, semi-finished products, iron
Coatex and Arkema Coating Resins , two business units of the Arkema group, are celebrating the official opening of their new Latin America application laboratory and technical center in Araçariguama, Brazil on the outskirts of ...
Tags: Construction, Coating, Coating Resins, Resins
Cotton prices continue to move down in the Brazilian market, returning to levels observed in November 2013. The low quality of the product available and refrained purchasers have been pressing down values in the domestic market. ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Brazilian market
On April 23, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in March this year China's Ministry of Commerce issued iron ore import licenses for a total of 104.810 million mt, up 43.58 percent month on month, valued at $12.145 ...
French carmaker Renault has announced a new investment of R$500 million ($223.5 million) over the 2014-2019 period. This investment will be channeled into the development of two new cars at Renault's plant in Curitiba, in the Brazilian ...
Tags: Renault, French carmaker
Arkema has opened a new development and application laboratory at its Araçariguama plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil dedicated to the Arkema Coating Resins and Coatex businesses. Arkema Coating Resins is a business unit of Arkema; Coatex is ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Apparel and accessories production in Brazil registered a growth of 12.34 percent during the months of January and February, 2014, compared to the same period last year, as per the data released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and ...
Tags: Apparel Production, Apparel, knitwear
Brazil's iron oil exports to China in March rose to 12.1 million mt, 4% above the 11.6 million mt exported to that country in March 2013, Secex, Brazil's foreign trade secretary, said in data released Wednesday. The exports had a total ...
Tags: Iron Ore, iron ore exports
Brazil's Petrobras has signed a short-term contract with Bolivian counterpart YPFB to increase natural gas imports from the Andean nation, Petrobras said. Under terms of the contract, Petrobras will import an additional 2.24 million cubic ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Brazil's Petrobras, gas-fired power plant
Ethanol output in Brazil's key center-south region was 167.854 million liters (44.342 million gallons) in the second half of March, up 665% from the first half of the month, according to data released Tuesday by trade group Unica. The ...
Tags: Ethanol Output, sugar mills
Iron ore prices are likely to drop to $115/dry mt CFR China this year, lower than Q1's $120.68/dmt average, forcing as much as 70-80 million mt/year of high-cost Chinese supplies to shut, Standard Bank said Monday. Iron ore reference ...
Tags: Iron Ore, iron ore demand
Brazil's JBS plans to raise BRL3bn ($1.36bn) through initial public offering (IPO) of its poultry and processed food division. The company has appointed five investment banks, including Banco Itaú BBA, Banco Santander, BTG Pactual ...
Tags: Brazil's JBS, Food Unit, IPO