Constellation Brands, a leading beverage alcohol company, reported today its first quarter 2015 results. "We posted a great quarter reflecting outstanding results for our beer business as well as wine and spirits performance that was ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first five months of the current year amounted to 14.01 million metric tons, 0.8 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
Tags: Crude Steel, steelmakers
On June 20, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in May this year China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) issued iron ore import licenses for a total of 99.6534 million mt, down 8.46 percent month on month, valued at ...
Tags: Iron Ore Import, iron ore
Global 2014/15 cotton mill use is forecast at 112.3 million bales, 2 percent above the previous season. Mill use in China is expected to rebound in 2014/15 to 37.0 million bales—up from an estimated 35.5 million bales this season and ...
Tags: Cotton, World cotton trade
China's National Development and Reform Commission has raised domestic retail prices of gasoline and diesel by Yuan 165/mt ($26.50/mt) and Yuan 160/mt, respectively, effective midnight Tuesday. This is the first fuel price adjustment in a ...
European styrene production margins, which appeared to be rising after an explosion June 3 during maintenance at Shell-BASF's Ellba joint venture in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, are falling again, Platts data shows. Styrene's premium over ...
Tags: Styrene, styrene production
Source: Elliot Brown Sheffield-based lighting and electrical products distributor Red Arrow Trading has secured £4.5 million in finance from HSBC's South Yorkshire commercial team. Red Arrow will use the money to increase the ...
The exports of fabric and garments from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam jumped 18 percent year-on-year to US$ 7.505 billion in the first five months of 2014, according to the preliminary data released by the Customs IT & Statistics ...
Tags: Fabric Exports, Garment Exports
The Government of Russia is aiming to increase the share of local goods in the country’s domestic textile market to 50 percent, from the current share of less than 35 percent, reports Novosti news agency. At present, Russian made ...
Tags: Textile Market, Russian Market
Setting an EU goal to improve energy efficiency by 30% by 2030 would help cut natural gas use by 115 billion cubic meters/year and gas imports by 90 Bcm/year by 2030, compared with business as usual, according to draft European Commission ...
Tags: Gas Use, EU legislation
U.S. cotton demand for 2014/15 remains projected at 13.4 million bales or 5 percent below the 2013/14 estimate. Exports account for 9.7 million bales while mill use contributes the remaining 3.7 million bales. Despite higher U.S. ...
Tags: Cotton Demand, textile industry
Vietnam's state-owned Petrolimex, which accounts for more than half of domestic oil product sales, cut its diesel and kerosene retail prices marginally but kept gasoline and fuel oil rates unchanged, effective late Thursday, according to a ...
Malaysia's natural rubber production in April amounted to 36,261 mt, falling 13.1% from a month earlier and down 15.4% year on year, the Department of Statistics said in a statement late Thursday. Its natural rubber exports fell 7.5% from ...
A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Oil Exports
The Asia to Europe arbitrage window for methanol will remain shut in the third quarter of 2014 on expectations of higher export volumes from the Middle East and stronger Chinese demand that would soak up Asian supplies, sources said late ...
Tags: Methanol, natural gas