A delegation of textile entrepreneurs from Pakistan’s Faisalabad recently visited the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, with the aim of cooperating in the textile sector. According to a statement issued by the Federation of ...
Tags: textile, textile sector, apparel industry
The premium on LNG cargoes delivered into the Asia Pacific market compared with Southwest Europe is down 63 cents/MMBtu, or roughly 19%, since early January on steady demand in the Atlantic Basin from South American buyers. Recent buy ...
Duralar Technologies, a global nanotechnology company and developer of the Duralar family of ultra-hard coatings, has established its U.S. headquarters in the Tucson region of Arizona. The company has leased a 5,000 square-foot building at ...
Tags: Coating, Construction
Market participants in Latin America are most likely to believe that polymer prices are going to decrease in the coming months, one of the main reasons the market is quite slow in countries such as Brazil, Peru and Colombia, sources said on ...
Tags: Polymer, polymer prices, Olefin
Freight rates for grain runs from South America to the Far East declined on Friday amid low Chinese soybeans demand, oversupply of tonnage and generally bearish sentiment in the Atlantic market. Grain runs basis 60,000 mt on the ...
Tags: grain, soybeans, Chinese demand
A new report by Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com, “Global M-Commerce 2014: Smartphones and Tablets“, covers the latest trends and developments in mobile shopping. Yücel Yelken, CEO of yStats.com ...
Small volumes of fuel ethanol from Paraguay were recently exported to Brazil, sources said Thursday. Brazilian trading houses purchased 5 million liters (1.32 million gallons) to be delivered in trucks to the states of Mato Grosso do Sul ...
Qixia District Council in China has placed an order with Australian packaging materials manufacturer Cardia Bioplastics for 500,000 Biohybrid kitchen waste bags. Manufactured using Cardia's proprietary Biohybrid technology, the bags ...
Tags: Biohybrid Bags, Qixia District Council, packaging materials
According to a study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, the global consumption of coatings was 80 billion pounds in 2013 valued at $120 billion. The industry has recovered from the 2008-2009 global recession and a five ...
The global market for 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BDO) is expected to reach $6,947.1 million by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Growth of footwear industry, mainly in Asia Pacific, is expected to drive the market for ...
Tags: BDO Market, global market, butanediol
In 2014, Australia's exports of metallurgical coal are expected to increase by an estimated 2.4 percent to 174 million metric tons, according to a report by the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). Over the period ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, metallurgical coal, mines
Brazilian miner Vale has announced the arrival of the first Valemax, the world's largest iron ore carrier, at its Teluk Rubiah Maritime Terminal and iron ore distribution center, currently under commissioning in Malaysia. The vessel's ...
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Crude steel production by the 65 countries reporting to the World Steel Association was 125 million mt in February, up by just 0.6% on the same month last year. Compared with January 2014, February's average daily production of 4.46 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Crude steel production, steel
Global crude steel production in February this year increased by 0.6 percent year on year to 124.99 million metric tons, while a 3.69 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first two months of the current year amounted to 5.35 million metric tons, 0.1 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
Tags: Steel Exports, crude steel, steelmakers