An environmental protection group and labor rights group are trying to pressure Apple into abandoning two hazardous chemicals used to make iPhones. Green America and China Labor Watch launched their campaign Wednesday to protect the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, iPhone
France must urgently implement new rules to oblige shippers to import LNG after new gas capacity auctions indicated a massive increase in prices in France's southern PEG Sud market in the coming years, intensive users group UNIDEN said late ...
Tags: LNG Imports, gas capacity, LNG terminals
For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
Tags: Self-Sufficiency Policy, farmers
Munich-based WACKER Group has adopted the motto "Discover Tomorrow's Solutions" for this year's Middle East Coatings Show (MECS), in Dubai from March 10 to 12. The company is unveiling a new dispersible polymer powder for cost-efficient, ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
Wild Flavors is reportedly geared up for sale in a deal that could value the ingredients firm at €1.5bn. Information packages to pre-selected bidders are expected to be sent later this month by Citigroup, which is managing the sale ...
Tags: Flavors Firm, Information packages
Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals, will participate in the upcoming China Outdoor Sports Industry Summit 2014. During the event, Paul Cowell, Apparel and Interior Marketing Manager for Archroma in Asia, will present on ...
US ethanol exports in January totaled 326 million liters (86 million gallons), the highest monthly volume since December 2011, according to US Census Bureau data released late Friday. Exports are up 36% month on month and up 33% from ...
Tags: Ethanol, Chemicals, ethanol exports
US ethylene contract prices for February were heard to have fully settled 0.75 cent below January's contract prices, with the net transaction price at 49.50 cents/lb, sources said Monday. The posted price also slipped 0.75 cent compared ...
Spot LPG prices in South and East China were under pressure this week, amid expectations of import costs for March-arrival cargoes falling with Saudi Aramco setting Contract Prices lower, local traders said Friday. Imported LPG with a ...
Tags: Spot Prices, Import Costs, Chemicals
The Northwest European orthoxylene contract price for March has been confirmed as fully settled at Eur940/mt ($1,291/mt) FD NWE, sources said Wednesday. The settlement represents a Eur25/mt decrease from February, following a Eur40/mt ...
Tags: Orthoxylene, contract price, Chemicals
MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex. More work is needed to understand and optimize the reaction, but one day this approach could offer an ...
BASF SE inaugurated a new global Research and Development (R&D) Center at its Thane site in Navi Mumbai, India, focusing on organic synthesis, advanced process and formulation research, discovery chemistry for modern agricultural solutions, ...
Tags: BASF, Textile, R&D Center
The European MTBE factor reached its highest level in eleven months Tuesday supported by ongoing demand for exports, according to market sources. The factor was calculated at 1.204, with MTBE FOB ARA at $1,147/mt versus Ebob gasoline at ...
Tags: MTBE Exports, Chemicals
March contracts for US orthoxylene rolled over for March, settling at 58.5 cents/lb ($1,290/mt), market sources said Thursday. Contracts were settled Wednesday, they said. Sources said sellers went into negotiations seeking a slight ...
Tags: orthoxylene, Chemicals, March contracts
US propane and propylene stocks jumped 479,000 barrels to 27.15 million barrels for the reporting week ended February 28, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The build was far above market expectations, which were for ...