The BASF TOTAL Petrochemicals LCC (BTP) joint venture (60 percent BASF, 40 percent Total) announced the startup of a 10th furnace at its steam cracker facility in Port Arthur, Texas. The additional furnace improves feedstock flexibility, ...
Tags: Steam Cracker, furnace, BTP
The introduction of the new Wärtsilä 46DF engine emphasises Wärtsilä's leading position in dual-fuel engine technology. Compared to any other alternative currently available on the market its specific fuel consumption is ...
Tags: Wartsila, Dual-Fuel Technology, engine
The ferrous scrap market was stable in eastern China this week, in tandem with the finished steel and rebar futures markets, market participants said Friday. Most traders were bearish, expecting further price cuts in the short term. ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Rebar, finished steel
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) joined representatives from the Moapa Band of Paiutes, executives from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and the Los Angeles Department of ...
Tags: Solar Thin-film photovoltaic CdTe, Electrical, Electronics, Solar
Government of Kenya is partnering with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the European Union (EU) and Equity Bank to finance the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme (KCEP). This US$30.1 million programme is ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's wire rod exports decreased by 3.79 percent year on year to 115,908 metric tons, up 29.09 percent month on month. The revenue from ...
Tags: Wire Rod, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013 amounted to 4.54 ...
Tags: DRI Output, direct reduced iron, Mineral
In the first two months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 192.39 million mt, rising by 1.60 percent compared to the same period of 2013, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Pig Iron
According to the report released by Argentina's steel chamber, in February this year the country's crude steel production was down 4.2 percent month on month and increased by 18.6 percent year on year, amounting to 380,300 metric tons. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Crude Steel, steel
British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has started installing a new servo stamping line at its Halewood operations in England, with an investment of GBP45m. The new stamping line, which is 3m tall and more than 85m long, has a ...
Tags: Stamping Line, luxury car, Jaguar, Land Rover
Canadian packaging products manufacturer Cascades has designed EVOK brand polystyrene foam food tray for poultry processing firm Exceldor. Designed for packaging meats, poultry, fish and seafood, as well as fresh fruit and vegetables, ...
Tags: packaging products, polystyrene foam food tray, Packaging
Quebec-headquartered Exceldor has selected EVOK packaging, a polystyrene foam food tray (XPS), from Cascades for its meat products range. EVOK, claimed to be made from 25% recycled material, is designed for packing meats, poultry, fish ...
Tags: Meat Packaging, EVOK, packaging
During the current harvest season, the Latin American country of Paraguay is expected to produce around 1,800 to 2,000 kg of cotton per hectare, despite the drought, owing to use of transgenic cotton (Bt cotton) seeds, as per the Paraguayan ...
Tags: cotton, harvest season, transgenic cotton
World-renowned clothing brands such as Zara, United Colors of Benetton, Gruppo Marzoto, Lanerossi, Marchi e Fildi S.P.A, Fratelli Piacenza S.P.A and H&M would be using Kazakhstan wool for manufacturing their apparel products, as a result of ...
Tags: Zara, Benetton, Kazakh Wool, Clothing
Mozambique, a country in southeastern Africa, is likely to produce 110,000 tons of cotton in the current marketing year 2013-14, daily newspaper Noticias reported. Cotton production in Mozambique grew from 41,000 tons in 2009-10 ...
Tags: Mozambique, Cotton, cash crop