State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, hiked its ex-works price for benzene in East China by Yuan 100/mt ($16/mt), or 1.23%, to Yuan 8,200/mt effective Tuesday, market sources said Wednesday. It is the first increase ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Petroleum
Gold is lacking direction ahead of key US employment data due Friday, with mixed views on physical demand. ANZ said in a gold report that "the $100/oz decline in gold over the past two weeks was largely the unwinding of the 'safehaven' ...
Tags: Service, employment data, Economy
Fire trucks, as special vehicles, are not uncommon in government procurement projects. In the past two years, fire truck projects of millions yuan have been frequently accomplished. Fire trucks have become a "large" project in the ...
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The establishment of an Asian regional gas trading hub is still at least five years away, International Gas Union President Jerome Ferrier told a press conference in Sydney Tuesday. LNG importers in Asia are studying plans to establish a ...
Tags: LNG importers, gas, natural gas
Bayer MaterialScience is increasing its production capacities in the Asia/Pacific region to meet the continued growth in demand there for raw materials for coatings and adhesives. Ground was broken at the site in Shanghai, China, recently ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coatings
German automaker Volkswagen Group has signed joint declarations with its Chinese joint venture partners SAIC Motor and First Automotive Works (FAW) Group to work collaboratively in the field of forward-looking technologies. Under the ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Automotive, automotive industry
Shanghai Province-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel) has issued its financial report for 2013, stating that in the given year it achieved an operating revenue of RMB 189.688 billion ($31.1 billion), down 0.76 ...
Tags: Steel, Baosteel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Molybdenum oxide prices continued their rally on Friday, reaching a nine-month high, although some participants believe the market may be poised for a period of consolidation in the first half of April. The Platts daily dealer molybdenum ...
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In order to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the twin cities (also known as sister cities or partner towns) of Milan and Shanghai, the Italian fashion capital has opened an exhibition that showcases the evolution of the Chinese traditional ...
Tags: Traditional Dress, Qipao, fashion capital
From March 31st to April 3rd, 2014, Expo Build China was held in Shanghai as planned. As a leading B2B website in China, Made-in-China.com certainly did not lose this opportunity to act as a perfect bridge for global buyers and quality ...
Tags: Global Sourcing Event
MAUSER Group has signed an agreement to increase its stake from 32.5% to 50% in intermediate bulk containers (IBC) joint venture (JV) Fanshun MAUSER Shanghai Packaging, located in China. The MAUSER Packaging's IBC production assets will ...
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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
Beginning this year, textiles will gradually become the largest export segment in Indonesia, overtaking the commodity-based segment, predicts a report published recently by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). ...
Tags: textiles, export segment, textile sector
INVISTA broke ground on new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) and nylon 6,6 polymer plants at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) in China. These facilities mark a key milestone in INVISTA’s plans for integrated nylon 6,6 facilities ...
Tags: Chinese Project, Invista, nylon
The H&M Group’s sales including VAT increased in local currencies by 12 percent during the first quarter. Converted into SEK, sales excluding VAT amounted to SEK 32,143 m (28,392), an increase of 13 percent. Gross profit amounted ...
Tags: H&M, online markets, H&M stores