The Caribbean Container (CCI) has commissioned a $44m waste recycling plant at its facility in Farm East Bank Demerara, Guyana, South America. The new facility is a part of the company's strategy to strengthen its recycling capabilities ...
With the US styrene monomer price hitting a six-month low this week, the arbitrage to send cargoes from the US Gulf to Far East Asia has opened, traders said Friday. Offers for cargoes loading in June in the US and arriving in Northeast ...
Sentiment in India following the general elections appears bullish, boding well for the Indonesian thermal coal market, but there is no near-term catalyst being seen to drive Chinese demand up, sources said Friday. "It would still require ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
Global demand for imported thermal coal is expected to continue to grow but at a slower rate of 2% per year until 2018, as China faces an oversupply of domestic coal and shifts to a more diverse mix of renewable energy sources to address ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, coal production
Li & Fung Limited filed a registration statement with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Wednesday laying out financial and other information for its $3.3 billion brand management business, which it plans to spin off as a separate publicly traded ...
Tags: Li&Fung Limited, IPO
Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has seen increasing market share in the silver paste segment, heaping pressure on international competitors, such as DuPont, according to sources with Taiwan's solar cell makers ...
Tags: Giga Solar, PV
UBM’s Global Distributor Customer Evaluation Study took an in-depth look at how designers, corporate management, and desgin executives use online sources to gather information on products and suppliers. The study, which was released ...
Tags: UBM, Electronics
Germany's power plants generated 5.4% less electricity in the first quarter, with output from all conventional sources falling, but coal- and gas-fired power plants recorded the biggest declines, German utility lobby group BDEW said ...
US methanol contract prices are expected to drop sharply for June following rapidly declining spot prices in recent months, sources said Thursday. June contract announcements from Methanex and Southern Chemical Corp. were expected to be ...
Tags: Methanol, methanol contract
EU first-quarter polystyrene imports jumped 119% year on year, according to recent Eurostat data. Market sources attributed the sharp increase in imports largely to reductions in domestic production capacity. The EU imported 38,920 mt of ...
Tags: Polystyrene, polystyrene imports
The US ferrous scrap import market was quiet in East Asia during the week, regional traders said Thursday. Importing mills were staying away because they believed US scrap prices were likely to soften after iron ore broke the $100/dry mt ...
Tags: Steel Mills, Bulk Scrap
Russia's Rusal -- the world's largest aluminum producer -- has offered to Japanese buyers, a premium of $405/mt to London Metal Exchange cash, CIF Japan, for third quarter shipments to Japan, market sources said Thursday. The company had ...
Tags: Aluminum, aluminum producer
A fall in the value of China's currency against the dollar has increased the losses incurred by the country's copper importers in May, Chinese industry sources said Thursday. The US dollar was trading at Yuan 6.26 Thursday, compared with ...
Tags: Copper Importers, metals
Loadings of Doba, Chad's only export grade crude oil, will be set at 3.8 million barrels in July, up 33.33% from June, according to a copy of the country's loading schedule seen Thursday by Platts. Four cargoes of 950,000 barrels each ...
The fuel oil hi-lo spread -- the premium of 1% FOB NWE cargo swaps over 3.5% FOB Rotterdam barges -- has moved above $60/mt for the first time since April 1 on supply worries, sources said Thursday. The physical hi-lo was assessed at ...
Tags: Fuel Oil, physical hi-lo