Renewable packaging material provider BillerudKorsns has introduced two new paper product families to meet growing demand for paper bags and carriers within the retail and food sectors. The company has introduced the new Xpression and ...
Dutch brewing company Heineken is set to open a new brewery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a move to expand its presence in Africa. The proposed brewery will be opened in July this year, with a capacity to brew 1.5 million hectoliters of ...
Tags: Heineken, raw materials
InterPlas Thailand, the only international plastics & rubber manufacturing machinery and technologies exhibition in Thailand, will open its 23rd edition from June 19-22, 2014, at BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand, to showcase the latest ...
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Among the most crucial issues raised during Euratex General Assembly held on June 4th 2014, special attention was paid to the growth of dyestuffs prices. Alberto Paccanelli, President of EURATEX, stressed forcefully that, “the EU ...
Tags: Textile Sector
According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, demand has continued to improve in the global long steel products market, especially in the Americas and ...
Tags: Long Steel Markets, Healthy Demand
Russian aluminum producer Rusal said Monday that it is bullish on the near term prospects for the aluminium market and believes that the price is undervalued. "A number of influential factors that have emerged in recent weeks cause the ...
Tags: Aluminum Market, raw materials
Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
Prices for seaborne iron ore strengthened further Wednesday, tracking stronger restocking needs by buyers eager to procure raw materials when the market is recovering. Platts assessed the 62% Fe IODEX at $95/dry mt CFR North China, up ...
Tags: Iron Ore, steel square
US-based Minerals Technologies (MTI) has signed an agreement with Zhejiang Zhengda Paper Group to build a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Zhejiang Province, China. Expected to be operational in the fourth quarter ...
Finland-based paper and pulp company Metsa Board has introduced a new lightweight and sustainable board, Carta Dedica, for food service industry. Said to be safe for food contact, the board is available in a clay coating version for ...
Tags: Food Service Industry, paper, pulp
The government of Kano state in Nigeria has invested N2 billion for importing machinery and equipment to be installed in 44 new garment factories that are being set up across the state, Kano Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said, ...
According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE), the country's trade balance indicated a $5.35 billion surplus in May this year. Meanwhile, in the first five months ...
Tags: Steel Exports, cars exports
It can also reduce the amount of PET material needed to produce the finished bottle, allowing for reduced wall thickness for an optimum strength-to-weight ratio. According to Sidel, the result is a bottle that uses less raw materials and ...
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The Indian government is considering urging Indian state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) to halt exports in response to demand from local steel mills facing a shortage of raw materials, a senior government ...
Tags: Iron Ore, iron ore miner
Textile and raw material exports from Turkey, excluding apparel, amounted to US$ 769.8 million during the month of May 2014, registering a rise of 2.8 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the Turkish ...
Tags: Textile, raw material