About Inmetro National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro) was created by law in December, 1973, to support t Brazilian enterprises, to increase their productivity and the quality of goods and services. ...
US March ethylene contract negotiations are still ongoing as US PVC producers are holding out for larger decreases, market sources said Tuesday. "A number of buyers have settled at a 4-cent/lb decrease, however there are at least two PVC ...
Tags: Ethylene, PVC Producers
The China government has lowered its rare earths export quotas for 2014 by 30% compared to 2013 after the actual export volume last year was lower than its original estimates. Prices of cerium, yttrium and terbium oxide (rare earths used in ...
Tags: Rare Earths, LED, Metallurgy, Mineral
Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 6.1 percent in April, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. ...
Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine today warmly welcomed plans by the Killybegs Fishermen’s’ Organisation (KFO) and a Norwegian partner, to build the largest marine food ingredients plant in the ...
Tags: Food Ingredients, Killybegs Fishermen, Food
FCC ANNOUNCES TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR MARCH OPEN MEETING (Washington, D.C.) – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that the following items will be on the tentative agenda for the next open meeting ...
Tags: FCC, certification, Service
Firm has now entered negotiations with Re:creation Limited with a view to signing a new world-wide distribution agreement. Choc-O-Bloc, creators and manufacturers of the award winning Magic Choc range, has been bought by a new company ...
Tags: Toys, chocolate toy, creativity toy
In today's competitive business climate, supply resources and chain management are major concerns for businesses. They want to assure and improve the quality of their final products and achieve a faster entry into market. From April 7th ...
Tags: Global Sourcing Event
BASF, the world's leading chemical company, and TODA KOGYO CORP., one of the industry leaders in the development and manufacture of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, have announced that they will enter exclusive negotiations to ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
The Vietnamese garment and textile industry has grown at a healthy rate in the first quarter of the current year, and the outlook for the whole year is bright, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, reports Viet Nam News. ...
Tags: Garments, Textiles industry, apparel
Finland-based stainless steelmaker Outokumpu has announced that the negotiations regarding its industrial plan have been successfully concluded with employee representatives and unions in Germany. The industrial plan was originally ...
Tags: Steel, stainless, Metallurgy, Mineral
Export from technological and industrial zones in the first quarter of 2014 amounted to 250 million euros?and there was a growth of 95% compared to last year, show data of the Directorate for Technological and Industrial Development Zones ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Softer coastal freight rates for shipping domestic thermal coal from northern to southern ports in China has put seaborne-traded cargoes at a slight price disadvantage, and renewed downward pressure on CFR South China prices, said traders ...
Counter bids for the April Asian Contract Price for paraxylene are seen to come in at around $1,050-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. The four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and ...
Tags: Paraxylene, PTA market, PTA producers
Expedited regulatory approval of proposed US liquefied natural gas export terminals would not lead to their immediate construction nor to near-term deliveries of US gas into Europe, panelists at a Senate hearing said Tuesday. Several US ...