Australia’s snacking habits revealed, Nielsen Eating between meals is extremely widespread with 96 per cent of Australians saying they regularly consume snack foods, according to new research from global market research ...
Tags: snack foods, Fruit, Agriculture
China-based Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd has awarded a contract to CB&I for the license and engineering design of a polypropylene line to be setup in Ningxia. The Shenhua Ningxia unit will use CB&I's Novolen technology to ...
Tags: Polypropylene, Coal Industry
AkzoNobel has been ranked number one on the influential Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for the third consecutive year. The latest listing places the company first out of more than 350 companies in the Materials industry group, ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Materials industry, coating
NYSE-listed CB&I’s proprietary Olefins Conversion Technology (OCT) has been chosen by China’s Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd to set up a petrochemical plant which will produce polymer grade propylene. CB&I said it ...
BOSTON – EPA is proposing, at the request of the State of Maine, to require the sale of reformulated gasoline (RFG) in York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox and Lincoln counties in southern Maine starting in June ...
Tags: EPA, Southern Maine, Service
The basket value of online clothes shoppers who use a virtual fitting room while making their purchase is an average of 7% higher than shoppers who don’t, more than offsetting the general 1% decrease in average basket values ...
Chinese manufacturing grew for the third consecutive month in May, suggesting a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing, a state-sanctioned industry group said Sunday. The China Federation of Logistics and ...
Tags: economic growth
The UK could see its first increase in offshore oil output in over a decade this year and the start of a slight recovery, BP regional vice president for Europe, Peter Mather, said Tuesday. His comments were balanced by a longer-term ...
Tags: Oil Output, offshore oil output
A leading Brazilian ethanol trader is forecasting an 8% rise in the average domestic price of the biofuel during the 2014-15 marketing year (April-March) as burgeoning domestic consumption is likely to more than offset tumbling export ...
Tags: Ethanol Prices, biofuel
The Philippines' statistics office released data on March exports on Friday. Total exports Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Oct yr/yr change (pct) 11.2 11.6 9.2 15.8 18.9 14.0 in $ bln 5.23 4.66 4.38 4.6 4.29 5.03 mth/mth change (pct) 12.2 6.3 -4.8 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
An industry group representing Chinese iron ore miners aims to satisfy 50% of the country's annual iron ore consumption with domestic supply by 2025, up from the current 30%, via consolidation and expansion of mining companies, a senior ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Domestic Supply, Chemicals
Trucking is an industry large enough and diverse enough to accommodate the interests and skill sets of virtually everyone. However, because it also happens to be “invisible” , those outside of trucking are left unaware of the ...
Tags: Invisible Industry, Trucking
As the California Air Resources Board is examining their new scoping plan for implementing the state's ambitious climate law, AB 32, the leading geothermal industry group has issued a status report on the state's geothermal resources that ...
Tags: Geothermal Potential, California, Untapped
February 10, 2014 Sophie Langley Retail food sales and manufacturing growth strengthening in Australia Year-on-year growth in retail food sales is at its strongest since early 2010, according to a report from food manufacturing industry ...
Tags: Manufacturing Growth, Food Sales, CHEP, AFGC