According to data released by the Brazilian foreign trade ministry (Secex), the country’s exports of steel flat rolled products and semi-finished steel totaled 101,800 tons and 267,500 tons in July, falling by 6.8% and 16.4% month on ...
Tags: Steel Flats, Mineral
GranBio, a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the same raw material that ...
Tags: Granbio, Renewable Chemicals
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that it will restart the expansion project at its Monlevade and Juiz de Fora sites in Brazil, which will increase production capacity from 3.75 million mt to 4.9 million mt per year. The ...
Tags: steel giant, ArcelorMittal
Indirect trade (exports of manufactured goods with significant steel content) from China to Latin America reached $20.8 million during the first six months of 2013, 7 percent of total Chinese exports, similar to levels recorded during the ...
Tags: Steel-Heavy Products
1) The commercial invoice and packing list MUST to in original. 2) It is obligatory to consist (s) the Harmonized Systems (s) / HTS in MBL and HBL – Minimum: Four Fist Numbers 3) BL and HBL could not be consigned: TO THE ORDER ...
Tags: Important Matters, invoice
Braskem announces results for the second quarter. Net Revenue In 2Q13, Braskem’s consolidated net revenue was US$4.6 billion, similar to the previous quarter. In Brazilian real, net revenue amounted to R$9.5 billion, increasing 2% ...
Tags: Petrochemical
Visitors attending ABRAFATI 2013 will be introduced to a broad range of dispersions, high performance, metallic and special effect pigments from Sun Chemical Performance Pigments that can meet sustainability needs, maintain high color ...
Tags: Chemical, Construction, Decoration
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) South American debut took place in the VICUNHA showroom in São Paulo. A separate BCI corner was installed as a platform for documentaries and presentations, in order to introduce BCI to major South ...
Tags: Cotton Initiative, Textile
McLaren executive chairman Ron Dennis Ron Dennis is famous as the most successful Formula 1 team boss in the history of the sport, but he is less well known for being a business mentor and shareholder in a celebrated lighting company. ...
Tags: race light, Auto Parts
The expansion increases production capacity at the plant by more than 50% to greater than 600,000 metric tons of aluminium sheet per year. The $340m investment represents the largest capital expansion by Novelis in South America in the ...
The Brazilian artist Laura Belem has created yet another intriguing installation. This one, entitled 'Beneath the Sky' brings a small portion of the sky into an interior space. The installation incorporates a lowered ceiling with ...
Brazilian wide-format printer manufacturer AMPLA has signed a partnership agreement with renowned software provider Caldera which will see the latter’s RIP solutions supplied with AMPLA machines as an OEM product. AMPLA will introduce ...
Tags: wide-format printer, Ampla
Families in Brazil spent US$ 102 billion on textile and apparel products in the year 2012, according to a survey conducted by the Brazilian Association of Textile Retail (ABVTEX) through the Fundação Getúlio Vargas ...
Tags: textile products, apparel products
Market breakthrough in Brazil for ALMACO Group with newbuilding contract for 6 drillships awarded by EEP Estaleiro Enseada do Paraguaçu (EEP) has awarded ALMACO Group the newbuilding contract for the complete Living Quarters on six ...
Tags: Transportation
Brazilian government enacted a new law by the end of July, the country's anti-dumping has been modified to make it more consistent with the current environment and more transparent. The new regulation replaces the 1995 publication of the ...
Tags: Processing Machinery