Global yarn production dropped in Q4/2013 in comparison to the previous quarter as a result of lower output in Asia, South and North America while production in Europe was up. Year-on-year global yarn production was up with all regions ...
Akzo Nobel N.V. reported a positive volume and price/mix development in all three Business Areas. First quarter revenues of €3,383 million were 2 percent lower compared with the same period last year. The decrease was mainly a ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Akzo Nobel recently reported a positive volume and price/mix development in all three Business Areas. First quarter revenues of €3,383 million were 2 percent lower compared with the same period last year. The decrease was mainly a ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The near-term supply shortage of ultra low sulfur diesel in Northwest Europe has forced up the forward curve backwardation to an 11-month high, and prompted the barges and cargo swaps to trade at the narrowest spread since October 2013, ...
Tags: NWE Diesel, ULSD cargoes
The European Commission has opted to maintain antidumping duties on imports of ferrosilicon into the European Union from China and Russia following a market review, the EC said Thursday. In February last year, the EC initiated an expiry ...
Tags: Dumping Duties, Ferrosilicon
ACE Group today advised that companies in the food and drink industry could face more claims from consumers as a result of new European food labeling regulations that come into force later this year. The purpose of the new regulation is ...
Sweden-based special steel producer Ovako has announced that in 2013 it registered a net loss of €21 million, widening from a net loss of €4 million in 2012, while the company's sales revenues amounted to €850 million, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
Global multiline property and casualty insurer ACE has cautioned food and beverage (F&B) manufacturers to be ready for more product liability claims, as new EU food labelling regulation takes effect this year. The new regulation, which is ...
Tags: Food Labelling, food producers
The aerodynamically optimised 2Impact FX unit heralds the arrival of the second generation of this ultra-economical compact spinning technology. In the new compact spinning unit for the Zinser 351 the air ducting system has been optimised ...
Refined global zinc usage is to increase 4.5% this year to 13.58 million mt, the International Lead & Zinc Study Group said Thursday. "It is anticipated that, after having risen by 4.9% in 2013, world usage of refined zinc metal will ...
Tags: Zinc, Metallurgy, Mineral, Zinc mine
Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
Protecting PV system components, in particular inverters, from the damaging effects of overvoltage surges is both crucial and necessary. Here Tony Garlinge-Warren, senior applications engineer, Eaton's Bussmann business, examines what ...
Tags: PV system components, PV, Electrical, Electronics
The High Plains Dairy Conference held recently in Lubbock served as a one-stop update for many things important to the dairy industry, including the value of maintaining good employees, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Dairy Products
In the last century, silicon-based power electronics (which control or convert electrical energy into usable power) transformed the computing, communication, electric vehicle and energy industries and gave consumers and businesses more ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Semiconductors
For full-year 2013, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported a 20% drop in revenue from 2012’s €227.8m to €182.9m. However, although down 34% on €77.5m a year ago, fourth-quarter revenue was ...