The SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting got underway in Berlin today, September 29, with the participation of almost 300 executives, including 82 representatives from 43 steel producer companies from a total of 21 ...
Karachi-based Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has announced that it has received two shipments of 20,000 mt and 50,000 mt of iron ore, while another shipment of 50,000 mt of iron ore was being unloaded as of September 19, with all these cargoes ...
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Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, commissioned its second benzoic acid reactor train at its facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands, adding 75,000 metric tons of capacity for the production of benzoic ...
International credit ratings agency Moody's has announced that it has changed the rating outlook on Australian steelmaker Bluescope Steel to positive from stable. At the same time, Moody's has affirmed Bluescope's Ba3 corporate family ...
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63.5 million EPAL Euro pallets have been produced in twelve months under the licence of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL). The number of repaired wooden pallets stands at 21.5 million. EPAL Euro pallets are said to fulfil the ...
Tags: Pallet, 63.5 Million, Service
Kumho Tire Co. posted net profit of 52.6 billion won on net sales of 895 billion won for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. That compares to income of 50.8 billion won on sales of 1 trillion won for the second quarter of fiscal 2013. ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories
Iron ore declined sooner than expected this year as supplies exceeded demand and prices are unlikely to recover, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which said 2014 will mark the end of a so-called iron age. This year “is the ...
In August this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 1.2 percent year on year and was down 0.2 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on September 11. Meanwhile, in ...
Tags: PPI, capital goods, raw material
BASF announced the start-up of a new butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant has an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons. The plant in Antwerp is BASF’s second butadiene extraction ...
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Dairy Home, a leading dairy producer, has agreed to use bioplastics for all of its yoghurt packaging, in a deal struck with NatureWorks Asia Pacific, an affiliate of PTT Global Chemical. Heralded as the first such deal sealed with an ...
Tags: Chemicals, Green Chemicals
Finland based VTT Technical Research Centre, Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology are together developing novel recycled textile fibres in the Design World of Cellulose project, a major technological scheme of Tekes - the ...
Pulp and paper manufacturer Virdia will build a $60m biochemical processing plant in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, which will convert sugarcane bagasse, or sugarcane waste, into industrial sugars and biofuels. Virdia will use 80,000 tons ...
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In August this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 48.4 percent, down by 0.2 percentage points as compared to July, still below the 50 percent threshold, as announced by the China Steel Logistics ...
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The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 51.1 percent in August of the current year, down 0.6 percentage points compared to July and indicating the first correction after five consecutive months of ...
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The Pakistan textile exporting industry has received a bonanza from the government in the form of a duty drawback on customs duty paid on import of raw materials used in manufacture of textile products meant for export. Through a ...
Tags: Pakistan Textile, Import, Textile