Exports of Russian acetone dropped to just 2,666 mt in March after the explosion at the Omsk acetone plant forced other Russian producers to shift their focus to the domestic market, the latest data published by the Federal Customs Service ...
Tags: Acetone, acetone plant
For first-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $14.3m, up 24% on $11.5m last ...
Indonesia's Newmont Nusa Tenggara was expected to reduce production at its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine around June 1, unless it is able to complete the process to secure an initial export permit from the government, the company said ...
Tags: Copper Output, PT Smelting
Despite shutdown of nuclear power plants, Japan is not expected to raise its thermal coal imports significantly over the next five-seven years, as existing coal-fired power plants are running at high rates and new facilities are still on ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, nuclear power plants
Trelleborg's new tire plant will supply ag tires to the original equipment and replacement markets in North America Trelleborg AB says it will build a $50 million radial agricultural tire plant in Spartanburg, S.C. Production is expected ...
Tags: Trelleborg, AG Tire
A three-month old arbitrage window to export Asian butadiene to the US that had been slowly closing earlier this month has widened again this week and as a result producers and traders have been heard trying to arrange for butadiene cargoes ...
Tags: Butadiene, Asian butadiene
Jaguar Land Rover has completed the installation of the UK's largest rooftop solar panel array at its new state-of-the art Engine Manufacturing Centre at i54 South Staffordshire. The new facility has been designed with sustainability ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar, solar panel
There was an upbeat atmosphere among the 2575 visitors and the 100 exhibitors at Made in France on 9 & 10 April, building on momentum from last year with another double-digit rise in attendance: +15.9%. The show’s fantastic new ...
Tags: Made in France, luxury buyers
The Tetra Pak A3/ Speed filling machine for Tetra Prisma Aseptic portion packs was deployed at the dairy producer after following a successful field test in 2012. Running at a speed of 24,000 packs per hour, or approximately seven packs ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Filling Machine, Dairy Packaging, carton packages
Eight thousand solar panels have been installed on the roof of Wolseley UK's National Distribution Centre (NDC) in Leamington Spa, capable of generating enough electricity to power around 450 homes a year*. Wolseley UK is part of Wolseley ...
Tags: Solar, solar panels
China's Jinling Mining hiked its iron ore concentrate production in 2013 to 1.23 million mt, up 6.9% year on year in 2013, the Shenzhen-listed company said in its financial report released Tuesday. Jinling, one of the few Chinese iron ore ...
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Turkish steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann has told SteelOrbis that the company's US oil country tubular goods (OCTG) investment in Houston, Texas remains on track within the projected schedule, with the threading facility already being ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
ArcelorMittal to supply clad steel plate for UAE's largest oilfield Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has announced that its Industeel site in Le Creusot, France, will provide 5,400 mt of clad steel plates for the Zakum oilfield, the largest ...
Tags: Clad Steel Plate
With an investment of US$90 million, Mexican pipe producer Tubacero began operations at its fourth plant in Mexico, located in the Interpuerto Monterrey in Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León. It is the only plant in the world capable of ...
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $41.5m for full-year 2013, down 38% on $67.2m for 2012. ...
Tags: optical products, increasing utilization, competitive landscape