Asian styrene monomer prices rose $8/mt from Wednesday's assessment, with Thursday morning pegs assessed at $1,808.50/mt FOB Korea and $1,837.50/mt CFR China amid market talk that Saudi Petrochemical Co, or Sadaf, has shut its 580,000 ...
Tags: Asian styrene monomer, Chemicals
The Qantas and Emirates partnership in New Zealand will be opening for bookings from 14 August 2013, subject to regulatory approval. Aligned fares, frequent flyer benefits and code share arrangements will all be switched on across the ...
British luxury car maker Bentley Motors, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, is planning to invest about GBP800m through 2016 at its Crewe Plant in the UK for the production of new sport utility vehicle (SUV) and other models. The new SUV, which ...
Tags: SUV Production, Bentley Motors
AarhusKarlshamn (AAK), a Swedish-Danish producer of specialty vegetable oils and fats, has acquired Unipro - a leading supplier of oils and fats to the industrial and bakery markets in Turkey, from Unilever. Established in 1990 and ...
Tags: Oils and Fats, Aarhuskarlshamn
US-based biotechnology company Life Technologies is expanding its global food safety solutions range with the worldwide distribution of its RT-qPCR assays. The assays are designed to detect Norovirus GI and Norovirus GII, Hepatitis A, and ...
Tags: Life Technologies, Food Safety
Stirred by improving financial condition of developed countries, as global demand for petrochemical products is rising, Iran has launched or is working to launch several new projects to boost its petrochemical strength to cash in on the ...
Tags: Petrochem Projects, Textile
Finland-based stainless producer Outokumpu announced that its stainless steel shipments totaled 656,000 tons in the second quarter of this year, falling by 8.8% year on year. In the first half of this year, the group’s stainless ...
Tags: stainless Steel, Outokumpu
Computerworld - Nokia Wednesday unveiled its largest Windows 8 smartphone today, the Lumia 625, which sports a 4.7-in. LCD screen and a price tag of under $300. The Lumia 625 Hero Windows 8 smartphone was unveiled by Nokia today. The ...
Tags: Nokia, Lumia 625, Smartphone
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2013. Outokumpu's net loss widened to €250 million in the given quarter compared to a net loss of €152 million in the ...
OPEC would need to cut production sometime in the second half of 2013 or early 2014 to stave off "a large drop in prices," Kuwait's leading bank said in a report over the weekend. In its latest economic bulletin, released late Sunday, the ...
Tags: Crude Output, Kuwait Bank
Life Care Medical Devices, a medical device maker, has inked an exclusive agreement with Malesa MD&D for the distribution of its Keyhole Cup Laparoscopic Access Device in Saudi Arabia. Malesa MD&D is a leading healthcare and consumer ...
Georg Fischer generated sales of CHF 1,837 million during the first half-year of 2013, slightly lower than in the previous year. Adjusted for currency effects, divestments and acquisitions, the figure is equivalent to last year?s first ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
Although the Norwegian company Moelven recorded an operating result of +NOK11.1m for the second quarter of 2013, its pre-tax profit remains negative at -NOK14.4m. The quarterly sales revenue for the period of April to June almost matched ...
Tags: lumber, Construction
A rebound for IBM failed to materialize in the second quarter, as profit and sales declined along with a slump in revenue from hardware and services. However, in its quarterly financial report Thursday, the company raised its forecast for ...
Tags: IBM, Computer Products, software
A rebound for IBM failed to materialise in the second quarter, as profit and sales declined along with a slump in revenue from hardware and services. However, in its quarterly financial report Thursday, the company raised its forecast for ...
Tags: Computer Products, IBM, software