The Northwest European styrene monomer benchmark has climber $137.50/mt or 8.9% from a year-to-date low of $1,537.50/mt on April 22 to $1,675/mt FOB ARA Tuesday, Platts data showed. The rally was due to a combination of increasing demand ...
Tags: NWE Styrene, styrene monomer
A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves. Downdetector.com, which rolled ...
Tags: Computer Products
Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier on Wednesday. The Syrian government earlier today blamed the?Internet blackout, which had gone into its second ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.? At around 18:45 GMT Tuesday, "OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it seems Syria has ...
The Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) has urged the Government to resolve the energy crisis and ensure continuous power supply to the textile industries of Faisalabad. Lack of management in the power sector has caused ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
A digital inverter can be used for a number of applications such as on boats and other RVs, in factories for powering large and sensitive equipments as well as homes for carrying out the do-it-yourself projects or going on short trips for ...
Jacking up prices after an emergency is not acceptable. That's the message New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent to gas station owners this week, six months after Superstorm Sandy struck. Price gouging was common in the ...
Tags: Gas, Auto Parts
Six months ago Superstorm Sandy knocked out power to millions in the Northeast and the homes of Consumer Reports readers were no exception. When we spoke to 8,389 of our subscribers who live in the affected areas of New York, New Jersey and ...
Tags: Generators, Industrial Equipment
There are fundamental inverter sizing steps pertaining to off-grid and grid-tied battery backup that make the selection of the appropriate inverter with adequate capacity to meet the load requirements of your appliances. The sizing of the ...
US refiner Phillips 66 said Wednesday it plans to increase its product export capacity by 50,000 b/d to 370,000 b/d by the end of this year and to raise the volume of less expensive North American crude it processes at its US refineries. ...
Tags: Phillips 66, Export Capacity
US commercial crude stocks surged 6.696 million barrels over the week ended April 26 to hit a record high level of 395.284 million barrels, data from the Energy Information Administration showed Wednesday. The climb, due largely to a ...
Tags: commercial crude stocks, Energy Information Administration
AN outage at the Australian Stock Exchange that prevented the release of company announcements on the ASX website has been resolved. Company announcements are now going live again on the ASX website, along with the backlog of this ...
Huntsman has unexpectedly shut its ethylene oxide unit in Port Neches, Texas for an unplanned maintenance, a company spokeswoman said Thursday. "We anticipate the unit will resume operation this weekend," Huntsman spokeswoman Anne Knisely ...
Tags: Chemicals
Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has posted its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net loss of SEK 137 million, compared to a net profit of SEK 281 million in the corresponding quarter of 2012. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Thousands of older systems, including those used to manage critical industrial control equipment, traffic lights, fuel pumps, retail point-of-sale terminals and building automation are vulnerable to tampering because they're insecurely ...
Tags: Computer Products, software