Ethylene spot prices have softened marginally for the first time since December 6 as feedstock naphtha prices fell, sources said. Ethylene was assessed at Eur1,000/mt ($1362) FD NWE Wednesday, down Eur7.50/mt on the day. Naphtha was ...
Chinese purified terephthalic acid producers BP and Hengli have deferred the startup of their new PTA plants to 2015 from the fourth quarter this year, amid negative PTA margins, sources close to the company said Friday. The startup of BP ...
Pouch packaging is exciting. Designers are excited about it. Retailers are excited by it. The result of these two things is that the pouch packaging hitting the shelves now has some real star performers – eye catching, innovative and ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Pouch packaging
Anytime a product recall is quickly associated with illnesses it's never good. But for Fonterra, the world's largest dairy processor, the need in the last week to recall 8,700 bottles of cream for E. coli contamination could not have come ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Milk, Milk Powder
In the wake of recently earned Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP+) status, Rukhsana Shah, Federal Secretary of Textile Industry Division, Pakistan has advised value-added textile entrepreneurs to focus on the Eastern European ...
Tags: Textile, Eastern Europe
Desigual, the Barcelona based casual clothing brand known for its patchwork designs, intense prints, innovative graffiti art and flamboyant splashes of color, is spreading its arms in Europe and is set to take over the Asian markets. ...
Tags: Global Market, Apparel
The firm will introduce its new 2014 ranges to the trade at London Toy Fair Playmobil is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with the launch of new celebratory ranges at the London Toy Fair. In what the firm has already billed as ...
The Malaysia Kitchen Program USA under the Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), has newly appointed Christina Arokiasamy as Malaysia's Food Ambassador to the U.S. As a spice expert and acclaimed cookbook author, ...
Tags: Spice Expert, Malaysian cuisine, spice trade
According to U.S. media reports, China has already surpassed the United States, to become the world's largest consumer electronics market, and Asia area also replaced the North America, become the largest consumer electronics market. The ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Turk’s Poultry Farm Ltd has this to say about its suppliers: “Turk's Poultry has an excellent working relationship with a diverse group of suppliers who are involved in the business from raising the chickens and grain through ...
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The new Slendier "high dietary fibre" drink Australian health food manufacturer D'lite Food Pacific has launched a new range of drinks called Slendier Drinks in Australia, which it says are "high in dietary fibre" and designed to "keep ...
Tags: D'lite Food Pacific, Slendier Drinks, dietary fibre, low calorie
Beam has been acquired by Suntory Holdings Japanese beverage company Suntory Holdings is set to acquire all outstanding shares of premium alcoholic spirits company Beam Inc for US$83.50 per share in cash or total consideration of ...
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More Chinese thermal coal buyers may renege on contracts for imported thermal coal shipments as international prices continue to slide, sources said Tuesday. "All the [thermal coal] prices have come down and so some reports of Chinese ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
CJSC Rusal-Armenal Plant, the sole aluminum foil producer in Armenia, increased their production to 25.375 million tons in the first 11 months of 2013, up by 5.2% compared to the same time of last year. The company exported around 80% of ...
Tags: CJSC Rusal-Armenal Plant, increase production, aluminum foil, Armenia
A novel study determined that monitoring inactive chronic hepatitis B (HBV) carriers is a cost-effective strategy for China. However, results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, ...