The global antimicrobial coatings market is expected to reach $4,520.3 million by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research Inc. Growing demand for medical device coatings is expected to remain a key market driver over the next ...
BASF has doubled capacity of its non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll® DINCH® from 100,000 metric tons to 200,000 metric tons per year at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With a second Hexamoll DINCH plant BASF will satisfy growing ...
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In April this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 117,325 metric tons, decreasing by 35.97 percent from 183,220 metric tons in March and up 118.06 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
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According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, the global long steel products market is still characterized by uncertainty amid the adverse effects of ...
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Chile exported 3,901 metric tons of molybdenum in March, up 10.9% from the same month a year ago, and 10,502 mt of molybdenum during the first three months of 2014, a 21.4% jump from 8,654 mt in Q1 2013, the Chilean Copper Commission said ...
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In March this year, Turkey's rebar exports amounted to 665,928 metric tons, decreasing by 18.62 percent year on year and down 5.39 percent from the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). ...
ABS secures Prestigious FLNG classification contract Tuesday, May 06, 2014 ABS, a leading provider of classification and technical services to the global offshore industry, has been awarded the classification contract from PETRONAS, ...
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BASF and SINOPEC will build a new world-scale production plant for Neopentylglycol (NPG) at their state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. The plant, with a total annual capacity of about ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending May 3, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,815,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.5 percent. Production was 1,835,000 net tons in the ...
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Global demand for kaolin is forecast to rise 3.3 percent per year to 28.7 million metric tons in 2017, valued at $4.4 billion. Growth in kaolin sales will accelerate as economic conditions improve worldwide, especially in ...
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The arrival of cotton increased by 3.69 percent to 13.391 million bales at ginneries in Pakistan as on May 1, 2014, compared to the arrival of 12.915 million bales during the corresponding period in previous season, according to the ...
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India-based ShriVallabh Pittie (SVP) Group is setting up a US$ 550 million spinning mill in Kombolcha town, located in the Debub Wollo Zone of Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, Ethiopian News Agency reported. The textile mill, to come up ...
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In the first four months of the current year, Turkey's steel exports totaled 6.3 million mt, down 7.6 percent year on year, while the value of these exports decreased by 7.1 percent year on year to $4.7 billion, according to the data ...
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In April this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 1.13 percent compared to March and were up 33.89 percent year on year, totaling 34.82 million metric tons. According to the information released by Port ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first quarter of this year finished steel imports from China to Latin America rose by 95 percent year on year to an all-time quarterly record of 1.9 million m metric ...
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