US spot ethylene settled at a 12-week high Thursday to be assessed at 56.5-57 cents/lb FD USG, up 3 cents/lb week on week, as a delay in the startup of a major transmission line between Texas and Louisiana, tightening supply amid a busy ...
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz has developed a new energy management technology for hybrid vehicles, the Intelligent HYBRID, which is claimed to improve the vehicle's performance and fuel efficiency. The technology, developed in ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Thursday the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping order on circular welded carbon steel pipe and tube (standard pipe) from Thailand. The review covers two Thai ...
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The Secretariat of Economy (SE) of Mexico published a resolution this week that announces the antidumping investigation on imports of cold rolled steel sheet originating in China, regardless of the country of origin. The document ...
Duni AB announces Interim Report for Duni AB (publ) 1 January – 31 March 2014. Highlights: -Net sales amounted to SEK 921 m (852). Adjusted for exchange rate changes, net sales increased by 5.2%. -Earnings per share, after dilution, ...
Tags: Textile
Chicago Board of Trade May soybean oil futures Thursday were down 11 points to 42.39 cents/lb despite weekly data from the US Department of Agriculture showing a slight rise in net export sales. For the reporting week ended April 17, ...
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Denmark-based clothing company Bestseller, which owns renowned apparel brands such as Vero Moda and Jack & Jones has announced plans of expansion in Turkey, by opening new retail outlets of Vero Moda and Jack & Jones, at the Cevahir Mall in ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Clothing
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
US natural gas prices will remain in the $4/MMBtu range this year while production growth in Appalachian shales will continue to be feverish, a consultant's new study and Barclays said Thursday. The energy consultants at Arlington, ...
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For first-quarter 2014, Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has reported record ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Bangladesh's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Textiles and Jute Ministry has recommended increased allocation to the sector in the next fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, for the overall development of textile and jute sectors. The ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of two Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling $1 million to fund green infrastructure projects in Chicago. The projects will improve water quality in Lake ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Taiwan-based touchscreen controller IC vendors are expanding their product lines to include other IC parts such as LCD driver ICs, ambient light sensors, fingerprint recognition chips and analog ICs as a means to fend off the adverse ...
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Sales of trucks are increasing in the first quarter in China. FAW Jiefang sold 46,400 medium and heavy trucks in Q1, up 26% over last year. And their market shares are 17.4%, up 2.2% over last year. Sales of spare parts were 247 million ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, Truck, Heavy Trucks
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has created and posted on line an 11-part ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics