U.S. farmers produced a record-high 13.9 billion bushels of corn last year, but demand from livestock and ethanol producers is helping support corn prices and may provide modest selling opportunities for producers in the coming months, ...
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According to statistics released by the Japan Iron & Steel Federation (JISF), the country’s exports of steel products totaled 3.393 million tons in November, decreasing by 4.3% year on year and falling by 2.5% from a month ago. The ...
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A lot of people would agree with the fact that storage racks come in a wide range of options and by choosing some different designs you will be able to store some precious items on the go. Some of the square shaped items can surely amaze ...
Octal, an Oman-based manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins and integrated PET sheets, will supply DPET/PE trays to Saudi Arabia-based foods major Almarai. Almarai will use the DPET/PE trays in the packaging of its ...
Tags: PE Trays, Poultry Product
Scientists from SLAC, Stanford and Berkeley Lab grew sheets of an exotic material in a single atomic layer and measured its electronic structure for the first time. They discovered it's a natural fit for making thin, flexible light-based ...
Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest single contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimetre (0.4 inches) to ocean levels in 20 years, a study said Sunday. The glacier ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
According to statistics released by the US Department of Commerce (DOC), the country's imports of stainless steel products totaled 100,628 tons in December, jumping by 46.4% from a month ago. Meanwhile, this was the highest level since ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Steel, Construction
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Thursday that for the month of November 2013, US steel mills shipped 7,604,428 net tons, a 9.0 percent decrease from the 8,287,553 net tons shipped in the previous month, October 2013, ...
Tags: Steel Mill, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron
From Washington, D.C., VerticalNews journalists report that a patent application by the inventors MATSUI, Togo (Nagaokakyo-shi, JP); DOOKA, Minoru (Nagaokakyo-shi, JP); TAKASHIMA, Hiroyoshi (Nagaokakyo-shi, JP); OKAJIMA, Kenichi ...
Tags: Murata, Patent Application, Manufacturing Method, Mlcc8221
This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
Tags: Eurozone Financial Services, Business Lending, Financial Services
Scientists are reporting the development of a novel metal ink made of small sheets of copper that can be used to write a functioning, flexible electric circuit on regular printer paper. Their report on the conductive ink, which could pave ...
Tags: metal ink, copper, conductive ink, flexible electronics
UK-based packaging firm Sirane has launched a new protective packaging called BenchGuard Advanced for laboratories, hospitals, surgeries and other clinical environments. The new packaging product is said to have absorbent surface and ...
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UPM Raflatac, a supplier of pressure sensitive label materials, has launched a new label film for A4 and cut-size printing in logistics and transport applications. The new Polylaser Logistics Fit label stock offers all the required ...
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It’s reported that the Indian steelmaker, Steel authority of India Limited (SAIL) announced to hike prices for both flat and long steel products by US$8~US$11/for January sales and shipments as they see the improved market situation ...
Tags: Steel, Steel Prices, Indian Sail
ORBIS Corp., an international manufacturer of sustainable reusable packaging and an expert in supply chain optimization, introduces a new sealed edge technology that creates a more efficient alternative to using a stitched top edge or ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Industrial Equipment, Components