In January this year, Italy's finished steel exports totaled 1.253 million metric tons, down by 9.7 percent, while its finished steel imports amounted to 1.331 million metric tons, up 25.2 percent, both year on year, as announced by the ...
Tags: Finished Steel Imports, Mineral
Japan, a net importer of low sulfur fuel oil, exported more fuel oil in the week ended April 13 than it has in the last 20 months due to dwindling demand for the product from the country's utility companies, data released Wednesday by the ...
Tags: LSFO Exports, Chemicals
China's imports of thermal coal could contract in 2013 as demand growth in the seaborne market is expected to moderate to 2% over the next four years, Goldman Sachs warned in a research note on Friday. "We believe 2013 will represent a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Chemicals
With the UK languishing in the ‘relegation zone’ of Europe’s renewable energy league table behind countries such as Spain, Greece and France, you might have hoped that the UK Government would at least have been motivated ...
Tags: Open Technology, Energy Efficiency, energy league table
As we enter a new year,we are confronted with one of the more bizarre and enigmatic cotton situations in recent memory.What makes price analysis currently so difficult is that we are essentially dealing with two entirely different ...
Tags: cotton situation, 2013, Chinese, yarn
Fitch Ratings forecasts that after a period of severe destocking in 2012,raw steel production in China will grow 3%to 4%in 2013.But the ratings agency also believes that Chinese steel demand has likely peaked and should grow at less than ...
Gulf News reported that cross border collaboration could help the Arab world maximise its gains from energy resources that could be piped and distributed across the region through a regional energy grid as a large number of opportunities ...
Tags: energy, energy resources, regional energy grid, energy sector
The Government of Indonesia wants the country to become net exporter of petrochemical goods by 2016 from its current status of net importer, and hence it is developing two new upstream petrochemical centres. Muara Enim in South ...
Tags: petrochemicals, petrochemical goods, petrochemical centres
Moneylife reported that after a lackluster performance throughout the year, Nomura expects near term pick up as rupee depreciation makes steel imports dearer which will revive local demand The steel industry has been in the doldrums for ...
Tags: Moneylife, Nomura, rupee depreciation, steel imports
Significant investments and subsidies have enhanced Chinese companies’ capabilities to produce not only LED chips and packaged devices, but also materials and equipment used in LED manufacturing, as TOM HAUSKEN explains. There has ...
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ASEAN steel consumption increased continuously at a compound growth rate of 10% from 1998 to 2011. Production surged by CAGR 6.4% while import rose by 8.4% during the same period. ASEAN has become a net importer of steel with net import ...
According to an analysis of the industry by Frost & Sullivan, huge infrastructure spending in the Middle East is driving strong demand for steel and fuelling investment in steel projects. Crude steel production in the Middle East has ...
Tags: huge infrastructure, steel, steel projects, rude steel production
The UK expects its tax revenues from the oil and gas industry to slip by more than a third in the current tax year as declining North Sea production levels, lower than expected oil prices and upstream tax breaks crimp its receipts, the UK's ...
A recent report on the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation website released some fresh stats of the PP market and industry in China, the world's largest net importer of PP resin. I'm summarizing the information into bullet ...
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With the inauguration of Dangote s $1b Ibese cement plant by President Goodluck Jonathan in Ogun State, indications are now rife that the Nigerian government may soon place a ban on cement, fertilizer, rice soon. Jonathan during the ...
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