BASF is investing in the expansion and flexibilization of its production facilities to manufacture chelating agents at its site in Ludwigshafen. By increasing the production capacity, the company is responding to the rapidly growing global ...
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Oil prices gained Monday as data showed China imported more crude in July. China imported 30.71 million tons of crude in July, up 29 percent on year to a record high, according to the data released Sunday by General Administration of ...
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Russia has started the process of destroying banned Western food products on the border days before the presidential decree ordering the same comes into force. Signed on 29 July, the decree enters into force today and orders the ...
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The European Commission will extend the safety net measures for dairy, fruit and vegetables sectors into 2016, in order to support farmers most affected by the Russian ban. The measures for fruit and vegetables, including peaches and ...
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"One Belt, One Road" is a rare opportunity to turn Chinese tea consumption into a global phenomenon. That is the dream of the country's tea companies - still largely unknown to the world. They are ready to grab a piece of the action in an ...
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In line with its strategy to focus its consumer board offering on high quality virgin fibre products, Stora Enso has sold its Barcelona mill, which produces recycled fibre based consumer board, to private equity fund Quantum. “The ...
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BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) will build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene (HR-PIB) at the site of their existing joint venture, BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Sdn Bhd, in Kuantan, Malaysia. ...
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Procter & Gamble (P&G) Fabric Care has declared a green drive deploying recycled packaging via Post Consumer Recyclate (PCR) and making 230 million bottles out of it for flagship brands, such as Ariel, Dash, Lenor and Unstoppables. In its ...
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Sales will continue to grow as major companies roll out new products with long-lasting flavors in a highly competitive market Wallace Chung looked as if he had just stepped off a movie set. Dressed in an electric blue jacket with matching ...
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In the just gone by fortnight ended July 15, besides weakened pace of trades in early July, cotton prices remained high in the Brazilian market. “Low cotton supply for prompt delivery and purchasers’ need to trade pushed ...
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Around 90 textile spinning mills, located in Tamil Nadu, will reduce their production of synthetic yarn by shutting down their units for two-days-a-week beginning tomorrow, according to media reports. The decision to stop production on ...
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China Fireworks (HS: 3604) Export Enterprises Distribution from Jan. - Dec. 2014 (by Export Value) No. Region Volume (Kg) Value (USD) YOY Volume Value ...
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Pan-European investment firm Aurelius Group has purchased UK-based compounder and recycler of post-use rigid plastics Regain Polymers Holdings. Previously owned by Chamonix Private Equity, Regain provides plastic recycling services to ...
McCain Foods is planning to invest $10m in the expansion of its Smithton potato processing plant in Tasmania, Australia. Work under the expansion includes the installation of a new $1.6m packing line at the facility, which produces french ...
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Gujarat based producer of polyester multifilament yarn has commissioned and begun commercial production of a 3,500 tons per annum carpet yarn manufacturing plant. “This is a valued added product and will generate additional revenue ...
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