To create more sustainable denim, India-based KG Fabriks has installed 1.05 MW rooftop solar power plant at its denim and industrial manufacturing plant in Perundurai town of Erode district. The solar power plant, owned and developed ...
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With 'wildfire' growth over, many production lines idle Overcapacity is proving to be a headache for automakers in China as sales slow in the world's largest auto market, said analysts and industry insiders. Though 23.5 million vehicles ...
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A six-meter-high industrial gas flow was discovered at a shale gas well in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, marking a breakthrough in shale gas development in north China, local authorities said Sunday. The well, based in coal-rich Ordos ...
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Mercedes-Benz has broken ground at its passenger cars plant in Brazil, which is a part of the company’s global production network expansion plan. The plant is located at Iracemápolis near Sao Paulo and the German car maker ...
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Taiwan-based solar-grade polysilicon wafer maker Gigastorage expects to reach full utilization of its annual capacity of 700MWp in March 2015, up from the current 70%, due to growing demand, according to company president Tsai Li-chuan. ...
Tags: Solar Wafer Maker, Lights
Hyundai Motor will build two factories in China this year, increasing its manufacturing units in the country to five. The two new plants will be built at Cangzhou, Hebei province and Chongqing in southeast China. Each plant is ...
Tags: Hyundai Motor, Car-Making Plants, Auto
Solar cell maker Motech Industries has announced it will be merge with fellow maker Topcell Solar International by swapping one Motech share for six Topcell's, with Motech to be the surviving company after the merger takes effect on July 1, ...
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BASF and Shell have reached an agreement for BASF to sell its share in the 50-50 joint venture ELLBA Eastern, Jurong Island, Singapore to Shell. The joint venture, which is operated by Shell, produces styrene monomer and propylene oxide. ...
First-tier China-based PV module firms have plans to set up overseas production lines to avoid US antitrust taxation, for which the US Department of Commerce is set to review a proposed increase, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
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Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that construction has started on a 15MW solar power plant on a ...
BASF and Shell have reached an agreement for BASF to sell its share in the 50-50 joint venture ELLBA Eastern, Jurong Island, Singapore to Shell. The joint venture, which is operated by Shell, produces styrene monomer and propylene oxide. ...
Chinese and Thai venture SAIC Motor-CP will manufacture MG brand eco-cars at a new plant to be built in Thailand next year. Having obtained regulatory approvals earlier this week, the project will witness an investment of Thb30bn in the ...
Hanesbrands Vietnam, a subsidiary of the US-based manufacturer and marketer of everyday basic apparel Hanesbrands Inc, has opened a new garment factory in Kim Dong district of northern Vietnamese province of Hung Yen, last week. The new ...
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Vietnam’s garment maker Garment 10 Corporation (Garco 10) has offered Tanzania the opportunity to export unspecified quantity of cotton to the firm, according to the president of the company Giang Duc Vu, Tanzania DailyNews reported. ...
Tags: cotton market, Textile
NYSE-listed Westlake Chemical Corp said it will invest more than $330 million to expand ethylene capacity and make other capital improvements at its Lake Charles facility in Louisiana. Once the expansion, which is expected to be completed ...
Tags: Westlake Chemical, Capacity, Textile