Datsun, a Japanese subsidiary of the car manufacturer Nissan, has launched its first car for the Indonesian market, the Datsun GO+ Panca. Built at Datsun's new plant at Purwakarta in West Java, the new GO+ is a five-door multi-purpose ...
Tags: Indonesian Market, Datsun
India imported around 15.86 million mt of coal at 24 major ports in April, up 6.45% from March, according to data released Wednesday by Indian ship broker Interocean. The April imports consisted of 12.3 million mt of thermal coal, up ...
Tags: thermal coal, April imports
Listed Japanese companies as a whole are expected to maintain profit growth in the fiscal year ending March 2015, but management, concerned by the recent sales tax hike and emerging-market slowdowns, have issued conservative earnings ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Indonesia's Newmont Nusa Tenggara was expected to reduce production at its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine around June 1, unless it is able to complete the process to secure an initial export permit from the government, the company said ...
Tags: Copper Output, PT Smelting
Australia-based packaging company Amcor has signed an agreement to acquire Indonesia-based flexible packaging business Bella Prima Packaging for around A$27m ($25.1m). According to Amcor, the purchase price represents seven times CY2013 ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Amcor
Despite shutdown of nuclear power plants, Japan is not expected to raise its thermal coal imports significantly over the next five-seven years, as existing coal-fired power plants are running at high rates and new facilities are still on ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, nuclear power plants
The global economy will strengthen over the coming two years, but urgent action is still required to further reduce unemployment and address other legacies from the crisis, according to the OECD's latest Economic Outlook. According to the ...
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Since the beginning of April when the Chinese government announced a lower starting auction price, the pace of sales from China’s reserve increased and the Type 328 China Cotton Index (a daily index of prices for domestic cotton ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Prices
According to the data announced by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), in March this year the value of Indonesia's iron and steel imports increased by 4.10 percent compared to the previous month, amounting to $673.4 million, while the country's ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Import
The prospect of Beijing banning imports of low-calorific value thermal coal again loomed over the Chinese seaborne market as the policy was rumoured to form the centerpiece of a tough new environmental law enacted by China's parliament, ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, lignite
The expected growth in global steel demand through 2050 may require a tripling of current seaborne metallurgical coal exports, which may be tough for miners to deliver, according to forecasts delivered Monday by two consultants. An annual ...
Tags: steel demand, steel production
This initiative, which will restore rainforest four times the size of the Lake District, has been developed with input from stakeholders including WWF, Greenpeace and NGO members of APP's Solutions Working Group. The commitment takes the ...
U.S. manufacturers have grown more competitive over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil, and most of the world’s other major economies. So says a new private study, which found that rising wages and higher ...
Tags: Chinese electricity
The thermal coal Panamax freight market on Thursday lost some of the last week's bullishness as firm cargoes eluded the market, sources said Thursday. The coal freight market from Indonesia to India was quiet, market sources said, with ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, coal freight rate
MuCelltechnology for extrusion blow moulding (EBM) uses gas-injection to create gas bubbles in the middle layer of the bottle wall. This reduces the density of the bottle and the amount of plastic required, while maintaining 100% ...