The International Plant Protection Convention has developed a new standard, which stipulates how wood packaging material used in international trade should be treated prior to export. The new International Standards for Phytosanitary ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, wood packaging
The Australian food, beverage and grocery manufacturing industry has an annual turnover of approximately $111 billion, directly employs almost 300,000 people, with half of those in rural and regional areas, and generates $24 billion in ...
Tags: food, food packaging, Packaging
Australia and China to increase co-operation on mergers regulation The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) have signed a memorandum of understanding ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Business
The competitiveness of the Chinese clothing industry is set to weaken over the next few years as costs rise. As a result, export growth could falter. Rising costs in China are already forcing an increasing number of Western apparel brands ...
The Asian price spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene widened by $7.50/mt to $250/mt early Thursday afternoon following an SM plant outage in Europe, but high stocks in China were expected to limit the widening of ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Cannes Lions is the world's biggest celebration of creativity in Design and Communications. Benchmarking innovation, it's the home of the great ideas changing the ways brands interact with their customers. The 61st Cannes Lions ...
Tags: Textile
More than half of Asia's gas needs will be supplied by LNG by 2030, Santos Ltd CEO David Knox said Thursday, adding that this will provide the Australian LNG exporter opportunities to grow. Speaking from the Brisbane Mining Club, Knox ...
Tags: Gas, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
South African Richards Bay Coal Terminal's exports of coal in May rose 28% year on year to 5.58 million mt, which was 2.3% higher month on month, according to port operating data published Thursday. RBCT said the exports were shipped in ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis have fallen amid thin trade after news Qingdao port had halted shipments of aluminum and copper amid a probe into loan irregularities ...
Tags: import premiums, Copper futures
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, has raised its ex-works butadiene price across China by Yuan 200-300/mt to Yuan 9,000/mt, or $1,209/mt on an import parity basis, traders said Tuesday. Sinopec last Friday raised its ...
In Hall E2, Booth D03, DORNIER presents a rapier weaving machine type P1, of model PTS 4/S C, nominal width 220 cm, with a high density filter fabric and an air-jet weaving machine type A1 of model AWS 8/S G, nominal width 190 cm, with a ...
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Methanex, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to major international markets, has announced its new regional contract methanol prices for North America and Asia Pacific regions. For the North American region, ...
Tags: Methanol, organic chemical
The government of Kano state in Nigeria has invested N2 billion for importing machinery and equipment to be installed in 44 new garment factories that are being set up across the state, Kano Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said, ...
Australia's Atlas Iron in May made its first iron ore sale for delivery into India and is looking to add other Asian and European destinations, it said in a presentation Tuesday. China has been Atlas' traditional offtake market, with the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron ore prices
Large Chinese thermal coal miners were dropping their selling prices for domestic 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal, depressing demand for imported material, sources said Friday. An Indonesia-based trader said that Shenhua had cut its price for ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, power plants