South Korea's third-largest refiner, S-Oil, sold a combined 639,000 b/d of oil products, petrochemicals and lube in the first quarter of this year, up 1.4% from 630,000 b/d a year ago, the company said in a statement Thursday. Sales in Q1 ...
Tags: Oil Products, Petrochemicals
PV stock clearance is nearly ending. Industry demands continued to increase in April and May this year, but orders for June 2014 remain uncertain. Thus, the spot market is still observing supply and demand changes in 2Q14. Meanwhile, a ...
For first-quarter 2014, RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported revenue of $177.6m, down 34% on $267.7m last quarter (due to seasonality plus channel inventory ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Titan International Inc. posted net income of $2.1 million on net sales of $539 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. That compares to income of more than $19.4 million on sales of $578.4 million for the same period in fiscal ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre, tire
Interface, Inc., a worldwide carpet tile company and global leader in sustainability, announced results for the first quarter ended March 30, 2014. First Quarter 2014 Financial Summary & Highlights Sales: Sales for the first quarter ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first two months of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 10.8 million mt, up one percent year on year. The highest increases ...
Tags: Finished Steel, crude steel
Adequate levels of rhizobia organisms can help to increase nitrogen fixation; satellite imagery and mapping capabilities help growers identify yield-limiting factors; and developments in drought stress tolerance. Adequate Rhizobia ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that the US imported a total of 3,219,000 net tons (nt) of steel in March, including 2,425,000 nt of finished steel (down 2.0 percent ...
Tags: Steel Imports, finished steel
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on stainless steel bar from Spain. The review covers one company — Gerdau Aceros Especiales ...
Tags: Stainless Bar, dumping duty
Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 24.47 million mt in March this year, increasing by 8.13 percent compared to February and up 8.39 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the information released by the Brazilian ...
Tags: Iron Ore, semi-finished products, iron
According to data released by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) on April 24, as of the end of March (March 31), the composite steel price index (CSPI) for the Chinese domestic market was at 94.83 points, down 1.63 points or 1.69 ...
Tags: Composite Steel, Iron, Steel
Vivergo, the UK's largest ethanol producer by capacity, said Wednesday that profitability at its 420,000 cubic meter/year (111 million gallon/year) plant at Hull in northeast England has been "adversely affected" by the lowest spot prices ...
US chlor-alkali plants operated at 81% of capacity in March, the lowest rate since October's level of 79%, data released Wednesday by the Chlorine Institute showed. The operating rate was down two percentage points from February. The ...
Tags: Chlor-Alkali, liquid chlorine
US ethanol stocks for the week ended April 18 moved up 566,000 barrels to a seven-week high of 16.518 million barrels, despite a production dip of 29,000 b/d to 910,000 b/d, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. While ...
Tags: Ethanol, gasoline pool
German automaker Volkswagen Group is planning to voluntarily recall 26,452 units of 2014 vehicles over a defective O-ring issue in powertrain. The recall includes all the vehicles powered by 1.8L turbocharged engines including the Jetta, ...
Tags: Volkswagen, powertrain