At the recent 74th Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Steel Committee meeting held in Paris, participants from OECD and non-OECD economies discussed the prospects for improved growth in global steel demand, future ...
Tags: Steel Committee, steel, Mineral
It is reported that Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) has announced to sign a syndicated loan of US$265 million with 12 banks and it will help the company to manage the cash flow of its raw material investments purpose. The ...
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France-based Diana has completed the acquisition of Confoco in Ecuador, a manufacturer of flakes, powders and purees from tropical fruits or vegetables, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition, which is part of Diana's growth and ...
Tags: Fruit Ingredients, Diana
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes announced the achievement of an important milestone in their joint development of technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials by successfully demonstrating the production of ...
Tags: BASF, Acrylic Acid, Renewable Materials
The German rigid plastic pack maker said that its Dutch-based business has already benefited from investment from the firm. It has invested in new thermoforming machinery and, what it describes as, state-of-the-art automation with ...
In a refined kernel-carving shop at China Artwork City in Guangfu, Xu Zhongying is busy receiving customers from home and abroad. Some of them would like to pay hundreds of thousands dollars for her work, but few of them know Xu almost gave ...
Tags: Carvers, Kernels of Art
It’s reported that Feng Hsin, one of the major wire rod makers in Taiwan announced to remain its 207 wire rod prices unchanged for July. After the announcement, its prices for 1008A are at NT$20,800/ton and actual dealing prices ...
Tags: Feng Hsin, Wire Rod Prices
International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has announced that it has raised the long-term corporate credit rating of Turkish steelmaker Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari T.A.S. (Erdemir) to 'B+' from 'B', with the outlook being ...
Tags: Turkey-Based Erdemir, Mineral
Belgian chemical company Solvay has announced plans to construct a new facility to manufacture vanillin in Zhenjiang City, China, as part of its efforts to better serve the fast-growing Asian market. The new facility, which will be ...
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The purchase of raw material as well as finished product inventory with Chinese textile enterprises decreased in May, owing to traditional off season for the textile industry, according to the monthly review of the Chinese textile industry ...
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It's reported that the Taiwanese rerolling mills including Quintain Steel and Yieh Hsing will release list prices for wire rods for July after China Steel Corp. (CSC) announced to remain its list prices for electric furnace (EF) Al-killed ...
Tags: taiwan, steel, rerolling mill, Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) for its domestic manufacturing sector was at 50.1 percent in June this year, down 0.7 percentage points compared to May, according to the figures released by China's National Bureau of Statistics ...
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Food processing industry requires great attention to be paid at every step. In this arena, removal of impurities like metal contaminants has become a common practice now-a-days. And to bring perfection in every product, a number of ...
The government's Open Standards Principles is one of a number of factors - including G-Cloud, that'll help it achieve a target of reaching a quarter of all ICT procurement contracts being provided to small and medium-sized enterprises ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak has signed a supply agreement with petrochemical company Braskem for ‘I'm green’ low-density polyethylene (LDPE) made from sugarcane. The Swedish packaging firm will use the ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Green Plastic