Given the predicted 1.8 million tons of surplus cotton production and changes in China’s cotton policy, prices are unlikely to rise to the levels seen in the last two seasons, says a report of the International Cotton Advisory ...
The Ministry of Commerce, Government of China, has fixed wool import quota at 287,000 tons and for wool tops at 80,000 tons for 2015. China has kept its import quota of wool and wool tops unchanged since 2006, even though the country ...
Tags: China Fixes, Wool Import, Textile
China had exported 52.4 million tons of steel as of the end of August, up 36% from a year earlier as low domestic demand has left producers with a massive surplus, Bloomberg reported, citing data the news agency had complied. The price of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Steel Rebar
The exports of fabric and apparel from Vietnam surged by 19.4 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2014, according to the preliminary data released by the Customs IT & Statistics Department, General Department of Customs, ...
China and the U.S. are benefiting from and straining under 35 years of normalized relations. There have been tons of exports shipped from China to our shores during this time. However, none are more important than Chinese culture. The ...
Tags: Chinese Culture
Recently Shandong Chengkuang Environment Protection Group developed the first waste tyre intelligent production line with Korean Dongfeng Group, and 35% of the wasted will become industrial carbon black, 40% fuel oil, 15% steel wire and 10% ...
Higher aluminum prices have prompted some Chinese smelters to abandon production cutbacks and are seen leading to restarts of other plants, chipping away at what was expected to be the first global deficit after years of oversupply. A ...
Tags: Aluminum, physical material, Metal
For a lot of U.S. farmers, a relevant number may have passed unnoticed this year. The USDA reveals that China imported a volume of 84,000 tons of sorghum in 2011/2012. Just two years later, during the 2013/2014, the Asian giant imported 3.4 ...
Tags: Sorghum, US growers
CHICAGO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a permit allowing the Archer Daniels Midland Company to inject carbon dioxide deep underground in Decatur, Illinois. This process – known as “carbon ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed standards under the Clean Water Act to help cut discharges of dental amalgam to the environment. Amalgam is a mixture of mercury and other metals that dentists use to fill ...
Tags: EPA, Clean Water Act, dental amalgam
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that the US imported a total of 3,667,000 net tons nt of steel in August, including 2,768,000 net tons (nt) of finished steel (down 5.0 ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Iron, Steel
According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, consumption of five of the leading additives for coatings and inks in 2013 was 1.02 million tons, as supplied, worth $4.66 billion. A 5 percent annual rate of ...
Tags: Kusumgar, Nerlfi&Growney, Construction
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, commissioned its second benzoic acid reactor train at its facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands, adding 75,000 metric tons of capacity for the production of benzoic ...
Carbon Holdings, a company based in Egypt, engaged in developing petrochemical plants and projects, is planning to set up a petrochemical project named Tahir, at a cost of US$ 7 billion, in Ain Sokhna town in Egypt, ahram online reported. ...
Few things illustrate our country’s packaging problem as acutely as the post-Christmas cleanup. New electronics toys, of course, can be blamed for a good part of the clutter. Heaps of boxes and plastic packs — often impossibly ...