The revival, reconstruction and modernization of the Angolan textile mill AfricaTextil at Benguela, which began in March 2012, is about 85 percent complete, Koichi Nagashima, the director of studies and projects of the contractor told ...
Tags: textile mill, AfricaTextil
Iron ore prices of just under $120/mt are likely to stay flat in the medium term, with some softening expected in the short term, a Sanlam Securities' mining analyst said Wednesday. "There's going to be volatility in the iron ore price as ...
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Stanley Furniture Company, Inc. reported it will cease domestic furniture production in the factory that supports its Young America brand. “We have decided to cease manufacturing operations in Robbinsville,” said Glenn ...
The IATA reports that growth in air freight markets moderated in February, rising 2.9% compared to a year ago, down on the 4.3% increase in January. But combining the first two months of the year shows there has been a solid 3.6% gain in ...
Tags: Air Freight, Service
Argentinian polymer and synthetic rubber output rose 3.4% in February compared with the year-earlier period, the state statistics office Indec said Friday. Production of these petrochemicals fell 2% in February compared with January, ...
China's refinery crude throughput over January and February dipped 1% year on year to 78.78 million mt, or an average of 9.79 million b/d, according to preliminary data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday. ...
The main types of the protective coatings are and will remain in the long term zinc and zinc-based alloys having anode protection, as well as a variety of paints and coatings, Russia's Metal Supply and Sales magazine has reported. In ...
Brazil cuts corn & soybean crop production forecasts. Brazil revealed the first estimates of damage to its crop prospects from hot and dry weather, cutting forecast for corn and soybean production, but the downgrades failed to prevent ...
Tags: Agriculture, weather, soybean, Corn
Brazil revealed the first estimates of damage to its crop prospects from hot and dry weather, cutting forecast for corn and soybean production, but the downgrades failed to prevent a tumble in Chicago futures. The Conab crop bureau cut by ...
Tags: corn and soybean production, lack of rainfall, influenced by climate
With US refineries expanding their capacity to process more domestic light oil in the coming years, the US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday said it expects refinery crude inputs to reach 15.52 million b/d this year and 15.61 ...
Tags: US Refinery, Domestic Production, light oil
Cold winter conditions have hampered well-completion activity in the US, prompting the Energy Information Administration to revise downward its projections of US crude output for this year. The EIA, in its March Short-Term Energy Outlook, ...
The Directorate General of Safeguards, Customs and Central Excise, Government of India, has initiated safeguard investigation concerning imports of bare elastomeric filament yarn, commonly known as spandex, into India. In its notice, ...
Tags: Spandex Imports, Textile
The net volume of gas imported into the UK outstripped domestic production in 2013 for the first time ever, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Thursday. "Imports of gas again exceeded UK production, and in 2013 for the first ...
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The volume of gas injected into the Italian grid in 2013 was 69.01 billion cubic meters, down 8.9% year on year, gas grid operator Snam Rete Gas said. In its 2013 consolidated financial results statement Friday, Snam said the fall was ...
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Argentine polymer and synthetic rubber output rose 4.3% in January compared with the year-earlier period, state statistics office Indec said Friday. Production of these petrochemicals fell 5.4% in January compared with December, Indec ...
Tags: Polymer Output, Polymer