Prices of raw materials such as iron ore, coal, crude oil and refined oil have been hitting record low prices on the global market, but import volumes into China. Although the trade balance has continued to be in excess of exports over ...
Tags: Commodity Imports, raw materials
It is inevitable that sitting down in front of the television will result in an unintended nap after a hearty dinner. If you've ever sat down to watch a program on TV only to wake up as the closing credits are rolling, there's a new ...
Tags: Wearable Device, wristband
China is emerging as an engineering powerhouse and has great potential to produce top-notch engineering solutions that will make significant impact globally, said Lord John Browne, Chairman of the Trustees of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for ...
French investment firm Wendel has acquired the US-based plastics packaging company, CSP Technologies, for $360m. The Wendel Group has invested $198m for a 98% ownership in CSP, which is based in Auburn, Alabama. CSP, which has ...
INDEVCO‘s subsidiary INDEVCO Plastics has forayed into Texas, US, with its first manufacturing plant in Longview to produce petrochemical packaging products. The investment is part of INDEVCO's strategy to meet the expected surge in ...
Tags: packaging products, Agriculture
The Recycling Partnership, a collaborative, industry-funded effort designed to boost residential recycling in the US, has announced its first public grant to the city of Columbia, South Carolina. The funding will support the Recycling ...
BASF will increase its production capacities for the chemical intermediate 1,4-butanediol (BDO) by 10 percent at its site in Geismar, Louisiana, as of 2016. The company will then have a global capacity of BDO of 670,000 metric tons per ...
Tags: customer demand, natural gas, Construction
After 10 years at the helm of Amcor, Ken MacKenzie has decided to retire from the position of managing director and chief executive officer, Amcor chairman, Graeme Liebelt announced on 22 January. “I believe after 10 years in the ...
NDC Technologies will exhibit its latest offering of gauging systems for the converting industries at ICE USA in Orlando FL, February 10 - 12, 2015. Attendees visiting Booth 901 will discover the effectiveness of NDC web gauging systems and ...
Tags: production efficiencies, material savings, Construction
MAAS Profile/BEMO Systems GmbH company group has teamed up with BASF to develop the first bracket for ventilated façades made of the thermoplastic Ultramid to be awarded a DIBt (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik) national ...
For coatings producers one of the big benefits of the sharp fall in oil prices in the second half of last year (2014) should be a drop in raw material costs. Some commentators are also predicting a rise in demand due to the effect of ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Raw materials, Construction
During today's Plastics in Automotive Conference in Detroit,Sandy Munro, CEO of Munro & Associates, discussed – for the first time publicly – his consulting firm's findings from its extensive deep-dive teardown, costing and ...
In mid-December, the EU Commission notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it intends to restrict four additional substances under the RoHS2 directive. The update will bring the number of hazardous substances listed in Annex II of ...
China-based Horen Plastics has joined the Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) as the newest international member, bringing the total number of members headquartered outside the country to ten. RPA, which is focused on promoting the ...
Tags: manufacturers, poolers, distributors, Agriculture
To reaffirm Inditex’s commitment to the China—a market that plays an increasingly significant part in the Spanish fashion retailer’s business—Pablo Isla, chairman and CEO travelled to China this week and met Zhong ...