Colombian coal exports in February fell 44% month on month to 4.067 million mt, which was 15.1% higher year on year, data from statistics agency DANE showed. The fall to the the lowest monthly level since March 2013 came amid a ban on ...
Tags: Coal Exports, shipping coal
In order to take full advantage of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, which is likely to be finalized this year, Vietnamese textile and garment industry would have to invest more in domestic yarn and fabric production. ...
A World Trade Organization panel ruled that China violated the organization's membership obligations by restricting exports of rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum, the WTO said Wednesday. The ruling is expected to increase the ...
Tags: Rare Earths, Export Restrictions, tungsten
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Houston, Texas-based Phillips 66 Company recently agreed to retire over 21 billion sulfur credits that could have been used in the production of gasoline, which could ...
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Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers or RTO are a great help as they help in purifying the dangerous toxics compounds present in the air. RTO is a machine that uses extreme heat to oxidize the exhaust and destroy the waste and the gaseous smoke ...
Tags: Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers, RTO, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
EPA's SmartWay Transport Partnership is celebrating 10 years as a market-driven initiative that empowers businesses to move goods in the cleanest most energy-efficient way possible, saving businesses money while protecting public health and ...
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Northern Ohio Receives Four EPA Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Grants The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of four Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling more than $1.3 million ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is asking companies or institutions to nominate their innovative technologies for the 2014 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. EPA is looking for nominations from companies and ...
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Fears of China moving to ban the import of lower grade coal have again resurfaced amid concern over the country's high pollution levels, with several market participants indicating that the government is seriously contemplating such a move ...
Trader procurement continued to boost spot demand in the Asian iron ore market, as trades got concluded at increasingly higher levels on the day, supporting a firming market. The Platts 62% Fe Iron Ore Index rose $2.75/dmt to $111.50/dmt ...
Tags: Iron Ore Market, spot demand, steelmaker
Sentiment in the Turkish steel scrap import market remained strong Tuesday, but prices slipped modestly on a the back of a cheaper deal. A European merchant sold 40,000 mt of Heavy Melting Scrap I and HMS I/II to a medium-sized Turkish ...
Hempel recently broke ground for a coatings production facility in Russia. The new plant will help meet the growing demand for Hempel coatings in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. Strategically located to best serve the market, it will ...
For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
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MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex. More work is needed to understand and optimize the reaction, but one day this approach could offer an ...
Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for ...
Tags: Hybrid Fuel Cell, Electricity