Green packaging maker Cascades is to invest in the expansion of two of its packaging plants in Quebec, Canada. The company plans to invest around $4.5m in its Plastiques Cascades plant in Kingsey Falls and its Cascades Inopak plant in ...
Tags: Green packaging, Food Packaging, fresh food
Argentina's biodiesel production is on track to decline 30% this year, as rising domestic consumption fails to compensate for dwindling exports, the head of an industry group said Monday. Claudio Molina, the executive director of the ...
Tags: Biodiesel, Output, fuel additive
The Northwest European styrene monomer premium over feedstock costs has fallen to a 2015 low, Platts calculations show, as a balanced market left consumers eager to normalize November spreads over feedstocks to levels similar to the start ...
Tags: Styrene, feedstocks, premiums
Malaysia's Petronas Chemicals Group said Tuesday that it has acquired three companies involved in the Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development, or RAPID, project at Pengerang, Johor, from Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Corp. ...
Tags: Malaysia's Petronas Chemicals, acquisition, petrochemical products
Northwest European styrene monomer spot offtake remains lackluster this week on the back of supply length, with buyers predicting lower prices in the coming weeks and industry consumers keen to reduce stock levels for the end of the year, ...
Tags: styrene, Offtake Lackluster, styrenics products, Discounts
Soaring demand from China, Japan and the U.S. ensures that the first-tier photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturers are booked in orders up to the first quarter of 2016. Currently, prices are rising for all multi-Si products from wafers to ...
Tags: Mono-Si Market, PV Sector, wafer
German power contracts for Monday delivery lost ground during Friday trading, yet remained buoyant on low renewables forecasts and reduced availability of coal-fired units. At Platts' 1100 GMT close, baseload power for Monday delivery was ...
Tags: renewables forecasts, coal
Draft EU rules on allocating forward electricity capacity have received a key approval from an EU committee of national government officials, formal EU power grid operators' body Entso-e said late Monday. "Clear rules on long-term trading ...
Tags: cross-border trading, third energy, electricity markets
Xcel Energy is confident it can cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 from 2005 levels at a negligible cost to customers, mainly by building two new natural gas plants, adding more than 2,000 MW of renewables and keeping its nuclear plants ...
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China's state-owned oil giants Sinopec and PetroChina reported a modest 1.73 million mt or 0.7% increase in their domestic oil products sales in the first nine months of 2015, but exports rose by 2.59 million mt or 12% in the same period, ...
The Obama administration on Tuesday said it will continue to process TransCanada's application for a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, even as it considers the company's request to suspend the review. "We would like to finish this ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is to open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Syracuse, NY. In partnership with the ...
For third-quarter 2015, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $140.7m, up 51% on $93.3m a year ago although up only 7% on $131.4m last quarter (which was the ...
Tags: LED market, LCD TVs
RPC Bebo Kristiansand - Food Packaging Systems, a unit of RPC Group, has launched a new packing system to improve logistical and sustainable benefits in seafood packaging. The new system including lightweight trays, sealing film and ...
Tags: Seafood Packaging, Packaging
Wafer foundry houses in China have stepped up efforts to develop Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI), or also called Ultra-Thin Body (UTB), processes for wafer production, compared to the Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) ...
Tags: Insulator, Semiconductor, high density chips