Miner Rio Tinto is to change the basis for the iron ore lump premium in its quarterly iron ore term contracts with Chinese mills to one based on a monthly average of weekly Platts spot lump assessments, from a fixed premium level set on a ...
US ethanol stocks for the week ended May 16 shed 312,000 barrels to a four-week low of 16.99 million barrels despite a production rise of 3,000 b/d to 925,000 b/d, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The stocks draw ...
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Production cuts at Indonesian thermal coal mines could only at best help stabilize prices but further gains would be capped by sagging demand from both India and China in the spot market, sources said Wednesday. A Singapore-based trader ...
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June US butadiene contract prices are expected to roll over or possibly fall slightly compared with May contract prices as spot levels have dropped throughout May, sources said Wednesday. Many sources expect a rollover in contract pricing ...
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Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers will give priority to second-hand unused crystal-growing furnaces supplied by China-based makers when securing equipment to expand production capacities, according to industry ...
In a further move to strengthen its leading position in the market for light-emitting diodes (LED), Osram today officially opened its LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. The factory has a floor area of about 100,000 square meters and will ...
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Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy ...
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a structural supercapacitor that stores and releases electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the ...
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Indications or offer levels for Angolan crude oil cargoes loading in July show a mixed picture compared with June, traders said Tuesday. Most offer or indications levels for Angolan crudes loading in July were either stable or higher ...
The Asian butadiene/naphtha spread narrowed to an eight-month low of $329.38/mt Monday, following the closure of the arbitrage window to move Asian butadiene to the US Gulf Coast. The spread value was last lower on September 12, 2013, ...
US over-the-counter coal prices closed mixed on Tuesday, with only a handful of trades seen across the Central Appalachian and Powder River Basin coal markets. CSX physical June traded at $60.25/st for one train twice. The price was ...
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LCD monitor shipments are expected to reach 135 million units in 2014, according to market observers. The number represents an on-year decline, down from 140 million in 2013. TPV is expected to hold a 37.4% share in 2014 followed by ...
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LED backlighting component makers are seeing increased orders from Samsung Electronics as the company prepares for a surge in shipments throughout May and June. Growth during the quarter is expected to come as vendors release new units in ...
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded ...
The US steel sheet market remains relatively steady, though a lack of buyer urgency may be eroding the bottom range of hot-rolled pricing, market sources said Monday. A top-tier mill source said import buying has picked up but domestic ...
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