The April US contract price for acetone settled 1.25 cents ($27.56/mt) lower at 67.25 cents/lb ($1,482.59/mt), sources said Monday. Market participants expected the contract to decrease, but anticipated a 2-3 cents decline because of slow ...
Tags: spot acetone, acetone
Taiwan's economic growth rate, on-year growth in GDP, in the first quarter of 2014 has been upward adjusted from 3.02% estimated in February 2014 to 3.04%, according to advance estimates released by the Directorate General of Budget, ...
Remember the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that crippled the electronics supply chain? Or the floods that swept through Thailand and hit the disk drive industry? Or how Hurricane Sandy brought much of the US East Coast to a standstill? ...
Tags: Risk Management, Tricky Game
According to a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in March of the current year the import price of iron ore in Germany decreased by 11 percent year on year and was down seven percent month on month. In ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Import Prices
In the first quarter this year, the aggregate gross profits of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 1.29424 trillion ($0.21 trillion), increasing by 10.1 percent year on year, according to data released by ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Net sales were down by 2.5% to $27.8m compared to the same period in 2013. Excluding prior year sales from divested businesses, Q1 net sales were up 1.7% to $17.5m. The Georgia-based company is one of the largest producers of folding ...
Tags: Packaging, folding cartons
Calyxo GmbH of Bitterfeld/Wolfen-Thalheim, Germany, the largest manufacturer of cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels in Europe, has concluded an agreement for further financing from venture capital investor IBG ...
Tags: Calyxo CdTe, Electrical, Electronics
The Spanish textile Industry Price Index (IPRI) for the month of March 2014, registered a rise of 0.2 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) of Spain. The IPRI ...
Tags: Textile Industry, apparel
American automaker Chrysler Group has issued a voluntary recall for 159 units of its Ram 1500 4x4 pickup trucks in the North America due to a problem in the transmission. The recall includes 2014 model Ram 1500 pickup trucks, which were ...
China exported 40,000 mt of ferroalloys in March, down 50% from a year ago, according to data published by the General Administration of Customs late Wednesday. The March figure, however, was double the volume of exports in February. ...
Tags: Ferroalloy, ferroalloy exports
Textile exports from Turkey are expected to increase owing to the gradual recovery of the economy of the European Union (EU), as well as entry into newer markets such as the US, South America and North Korea, said Uludag Textile Exporters ...
Tags: Textile Exports, clothing industry
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Thursday the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping order on circular welded carbon steel pipe and tube (standard pipe) from Thailand. The review covers two Thai ...
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As reported by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in February this year the total price-adjusted value of new orders in the overall German construction industry rose by 3.2 percent year on year, with a 10.8 percent increase ...
Tags: Construction Industry
Outbound shipments of Eagle Ford Shale crude and condensate through the Port of Corpus Christi jumped to 430,829 barrels/day in March from 340,158 b/d in February, according to data released by the port. Shipments have been on the rise ...
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China's exports of unwrought magnesium, with a minimum magnesium content of 99.8%, edged up 4.4% on year to 24,607 mt in March, and also jumped 107.8% compared with 11,844 mt in the previous month of February, data from the country's ...
Tags: Magnesium Exports, magnesium