February production of corn-based ethanol in the US lowered by 125.01 million gallons, or 10.76%, to an 11-month low of 1.04 billion gallons, US Environmental Protection Agency data showed Friday. The drop in ethanol production was ...
Tags: Chemicals, corn-based ethanol
Chicago Board of Trade May soybean oil futures were down 47 points to 41.63 cents/lb Thursday after the US Department of Agriculture's weekly report showed a decline in weekly net export sales. For the reporting week ended March 13, ...
Tags: Soybean Oil, physical exports, Soybean
The Shanghai Futures Exchange is ready to roll out the country's first yuan-denominated crude oil futures, which it hopes will become a benchmark in Asia before gaining global influence. Yang Maijun, the bourse's chairman, said foreign ...
Brazil cuts corn & soybean crop production forecasts. Brazil revealed the first estimates of damage to its crop prospects from hot and dry weather, cutting forecast for corn and soybean production, but the downgrades failed to prevent ...
Tags: Agriculture, weather, soybean, Corn
From the outside, it's hard to imagine that the Flexan Corp. facility in an unassuming neighborhood in Chicago serves as the headquarters for a thriving global enterprise. But the 65,000-sq.-ft. complex not only houses production for the ...
FMI Inc. Chicago-based medical silicone component manufacturer FMI today announced a new program aimed at helping medical device companies get new projects to market faster. Chicago-based medical silicone component manufacturer FMI today ...
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Brazil revealed the first estimates of damage to its crop prospects from hot and dry weather, cutting forecast for corn and soybean production, but the downgrades failed to prevent a tumble in Chicago futures. The Conab crop bureau cut by ...
Tags: corn and soybean production, lack of rainfall, influenced by climate
The World Floor Covering Association's (WFCA) third week-long CFI-led installation training workshop will take place in Wichita, Kan., beginning on March 18. WFCA Gold Standard Award winner, Star Flooring, will host the event. ...
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Soybeans were sharply lower on fund and commercial selling. Ending stocks were down on the month at 145 million bushels, but that was still larger than expected. Additionally, it looks like traders are more focused on planting and quarterly ...
Tags: Soybeans, Agriculture, Food
According to local reports, an oil container at Chicago-based National Processing Company caught fire Friday morning. Firefighters put out the blaze and reported no injuries. The fire alarm was quickly elevated to a still-and-box alarm ...
Tags: Steel Plant, Fire
Several US ferrosilicon market participants believe the preliminary determination giving a 0% margin on imports of Russian ferrosilicon and a 27.27% margin for imports of Venezuelan material, announced Wednesday, could have a near-term ...
Tags: Ferrosilicon, Antidumping Finding
US railroads are rerouting ethanol shipments to avoid bottlenecks in Chicago, particularly for delivery to the East Coast, where supplies are running low, rail company officials said Thursday. David Garin, BNSF's vice president of ...
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The Chicago Rule 11 ethanol assessment soared Tuesday to a Platts record high amid mounting logistics issues with rail delivery, sources said. Chicago R11 ethanol was assessed at $3.16/gal, up 10 cents from Monday and $1.07/gal from one ...
The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday rose 16.51 cents, or 23.63%, to a seven-week high of $0.8640/gal, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data showed. ...
Tags: Ethanol, estimated production
Cal Sensors announces the launch of a new line of single channel detectors (SCD) that block unwanted radiation below 1.2 microns.? Exploiting the innate transmission bandwidth of Silicon, the new SCD-Si detectors are packaged with ...
Tags: detectors