Avery Dennison Foundation announced a $200,000 grant to the Rainforest Alliance to foster best practices in forestry management, create jobs and increase access to sustainably-managed forest products. Workers in Brus Laguna, Honduras ...
Tags: Sustainable Forestry, Rainforest
China's Jiuquan Iron & Steel has cut its high carbon ferrochrome purchase price by Yuan 100/mt ($16/mt) on the month to Yuan 6,500/mt (80 cents/lb), including 17% VAT, for May deliveries, industry sources said Monday. The drop was larger ...
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Malaysian biodiesel producer, AJ Oleo Industries, has restarted its 100,000 mt/year plant at Segamat in Johor state, CEO Kasim Nani said Monday. Recommissioned early last month, the plant will supply 3,000-4,000 mt/month of palm methyl ...
There is likely to be concentration of PV systems installed around China due to government-offered feed-in tariff subsidies in the second half of 2014, and consequently Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers are expected to ...
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Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has claimed the highest optical 3dB modulation bandwidth of ~463MHz at 50mA for a 500nm-wavelength blue-green indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
Tags: blue-green LEDs, taiwan, LED, LED light, Electrical, Electronics
Rates and sentiment on the iron ore freight market got a boost Friday after Bocimar International NV was heard taking at least six ships in the Atlantic over the May Day holiday in Asia, putting an end to the downward spiral in Capesize ...
Tags: Iron Ore, freight market
Q4 2014 Central Appalachian rail (CSX) and Powder River Basin 8,800-Btu/lb coal time spreads saw action Thursday in the US over-the-counter market, pushing prices higher. In the PRB 8,800 market, the Q4 2014 physical price closed 30 ...
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US ethylene contracts for March and April were nearing settlements that would combine for a 2.75-3 cents/lb ($61-$66/mt) decrease, sources said Friday. Sources with two buyers said the net transaction price for March was beginning to ...
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European polypropylene and polyethylene producers are targeting a May contract price increase because of low stock availability and seasonal demand, sources said. PE producers were aiming for increases of Eur20-60/mt ($28-83/mt) and PP ...
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Early May traditionally marks the beginning of the summer smog season. Free resources available from EPA and state environmental agencies can help people easily find out about local air quality to protect health for themselves and their ...
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Out of 3 crore 75 lakhs bales of cotton crop predicted, approximately 3 crore 10 lakh bales have been pressed till 15th April as per trade sources and the daily kappas arrivals is quickly dropping to 95,000 bales per day. As per trade ...
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The US imported 525 million gallons of biomass-based diesel in 2013, nearly 10 times the 2012 total of 61 million gallons, the Energy Information Administration data said Friday. The substantial growth reflected increased demand to ...
Tags: Diesel Imports, Biomass-Based Diesel, biodiesel production
The prospect of Beijing banning imports of low-calorific value thermal coal again loomed over the Chinese seaborne market as the policy was rumoured to form the centerpiece of a tough new environmental law enacted by China's parliament, ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, lignite
India's natural gas demand is forecast to more than double to 516.97 million cubic meters/day in fiscal 2021-22, according to a report commissioned by an oil ministry regulatory body. Demand in fiscal 2016-17 is forecast at 378.06 million ...
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Domestic prices of hydrous ethanol in Brazil's center-south -- the world's largest sugarcane growing region -- hit five-month lows Tuesday as offers continued to flood the market. Product sold at plants in Ribeirao Preto have fallen 13% ...
Tags: Hydrous Ethanol, ethanol