Japanese carmaker Honda Motor in collaboration with Toyota Motor is planning to introduce fuel-cell vehicles in 2015. Both the carmakers expect to produce 1,000 vehicles per annum. Currently, Honda is developing a five-passenger sedan, ...
Tags: Honda, Toyota, Fuel-Cell Vehicles
The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is planning to harvest more than 1.05 million tons of cotton in 2014-15 by sowing seeds on 545,000 hectares of land, reports the State News Agency of Turkmenistan. At a meeting of the Cabinet ...
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Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
Counter bids for the April Asian Contract Price for paraxylene are seen to come in at around $1,050-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. The four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and ...
Tags: Paraxylene, PTA market, PTA producers
Traders are considering sending European ethylene cargoes to Asia for late May delivery amid weak European prices, sources said Thursday. Market participants said they have been approached by several traders with selling indications ...
Asian methanol prices are expected to come under heavy downward pressure in April after a ramp up in production in Southeast Asia and an influx of Iranian-origin cargoes, trading sources said Wednesday. Since the beginning of March, Asian ...
Tags: Methanol Prices, methanol, Iranian market
Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) Chairman Hsu Hsiu-tsang predicts the island's machine-tool exports to rise at least 10% year on year, to US$4 billion this year, as long as the American market and the ASEAN (Association of ...
Tags: Machine Tool Industry, Machinery Industry, machine-tool exports
Fonterra has started construction of IDR357bn ($31.3m) dairy blending and packing plant in West Java, Indonesia, which will be its first manufacturing facility in the country. The investment is said to be the largest for the company in ...
Expedited regulatory approval of proposed US liquefied natural gas export terminals would not lead to their immediate construction nor to near-term deliveries of US gas into Europe, panelists at a Senate hearing said Tuesday. Several US ...
US spot mixed xylene prices fell to a 20-month low Monday at $3.54/gallon ($1,072.62/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast. Spot prices were last seen lower on June 28, 2012, when assessed at $3.50/gal FOB USG, Platts data showed. Mixed xylene prices ...
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The first-ever Spring/Summer 2014/2015 edition of Taipei IN Style (TIS), an all-in-one trade fair that aims to promote the Taiwanese fashion and textile industries, is set to take place from April 17 to 19, 2014, in Taipei. Aiming to ...
Tags: fashion industries, textile industries, fashion brands
In the past 25 years, India has achieved a remarkable and considerable pace in the chemical production and most of the growth has been driven by India from all Asian countries in chemical industry. With the structured operations and well ...
Chinese buyers refrained from meeting the delivered-price expectations of seaborne cargo sellers in unsettled Asian trade Friday, as weak fundamentals in the domestic market prolonged a week-old standoff between buyers and sellers, said ...
Tags: China Cargo Market, coal producer, thermal coal market
The majority of household paints analyzed in seven Asian countries contain unsafe levels of lead; would not meet regulatory standards established in most highly industrialized countries; and, in a number of cases, have astonishingly high ...
Tags: Paint, household paints
ConAgra Foods, Inc., one of North America's leading food companies, today reported results for the fiscal 2014 third quarter ended Feb. 23, 2014. Diluted EPS from continuing operations was $0.58 as reported for the fiscal third quarter vs. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food