Ethylene glycol manufacturer MEGlobal has announced that its Asian Contract Price (ACP) for monoethylene glycol (MEG) will be $1,000/mt CFT Asian main ports for arrival in August 2015. The new price is $100/mt lower than July 2015 ACP ...
PT Honda Prospect Motor, a Honda Motor arm, has unveiled the first official sketches of the crossover utility vehicle Honda BR-V, set for debut at Gaikindo Indonesian International Auto Show 2015 on August 30 in Tangerang, Indonesia. ...
Thailand-based industrial conglomerate Siam Cement hopes to jack up 5-10% sales out of its paper and packaging this year, banking on demand from Southeast Asian countries. Domestic growth, however, is expected to be around 1-2%. Siam ...
Tags: Packaging Business, Siam Cement
Australian wine exports rose by 3.6 per cent in volume and 3.9 per cent in value of wine exports in the 12 months to end of March 2015, according to the latest findings from the Australian Grape and Wine Authority (AGWA). Australian wine ...
Tags: Wine Exports, Wine
Chinese carmaker Beijing Auto International Cooperation (BAIC) is betting big on Malaysia to promote it as the hub for electric vehicles to tap the Southeast Asian market. BAIC has already inked a cooperation pact to this effect with ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, BAIC, electric vehicles
Thermco Systems, a division of Tetreon Technologies Ltd of Washington, West Sussex, UK has opened its new facility in Wuxi, China (80 miles west of Shanghai). Thermco Systems (Wuxi) Ltd will use the center for its sales, service and ...
Recently, SINOTRUK (Hong Kong) Southeast Asia and the Australian department continued making a splash in overseas markets. At the beginning of the new year, SINOTRUK secured a big order of 242 trucks in Vietnam and 140 trucks in ...
Tags: heavy truck market, market competition, Transportation
Crowned as “the Milestone of China Auto Industry” by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Commercial Vehicles Show (CCVS) has gained great success in its second edition in 2013. The third edition of CCVS ...
Tags: Commercial Vehicles Show, freight market, Transportation
Mechanical and plant engineering firm Dürr has recently deployed its hi-tech EcoDryScrubber solution in the highly competitive Japanese market. The EcoDryScrubber is environmentally-friendly and leverages dry separation to capture and ...
On a global scale, Southeast Asia represents the fourth largest market for synthetic latex polymers, accounting for 8% of the global consumption, according to the recently published Synthetic Latex Polymers: Southeast Asia Market Analysis ...
Tags: synthetic latex, polymers
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
Italian coffee company Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group (MZB Group) has opened its new coffee roasting plant in Vietnam. This investment forms a part of the company's consolidation process in Asia and follows the acquisition of the ...
Tags: coffee, roasting plant, Agriculture
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has commissioned two new expansions at its Rayong, Thailand manufacturing facility to serve the growing Asian market demand for specialty chemicals. Commissioning took place as part of part of the 10th ...
Tags: Chemicals, Asian market, specialty chemicals
Aluminum rolling and recycling company Novelis has opened its first plant in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District in China. The Chinese plant will produce heat-treated aluminum automotive sheet and is expected to have production capacity ...
Tags: Novelis, Aluminum Automotive
China's environmental degradation has become a growing source of public consternation and a potential political liability. Premier Li Keqiang declared a "war on pollution" in March 2014, vowing to reduce emissions from power generation and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Shale