Brazil exported 46.9 million liters of ethanol to Europe in October, the most it had exported to the region on a monthly basis since October 2010, data from the Secretariat of Foreign Trade (SECEX) showed Monday. Of that total, 33.6 ...
Wistron has announced its third-quarter financial results, reporting a drop in net profit by 54.7% on year to reach only NT$657 million (US$20.26 million) due to exchange losses from selling its service center in the Netherlands. Compared ...
Financial results posted by leading chip manufacturer Intel and key lithography system supplier ASML suggest that demand in the microelectronics industry – a key sector for laser companies – is to remain strong. Following ...
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Global Water Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UV-C LED system designer and manufacturer AquiSense Technologies, which is unveiling what is claimed to be the world's first UV-C LED production product for water ...
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Platts EU 45 sugar FOB containers assessment for November shipment was assessed at a premium of $36/mt above the December (Z) White Sugar Futures (London 5) contract Friday, unchanged week on week. Last week Platts heard the first ...
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The European Commission is seeking comments on whether the shareholding of Netherlands-based commodities trading group Trafigura in Belgium-based zinc and lead producer Nyrstar amounts to the company taking "de facto sole control" of ...
The Northwest European styrene monomer premium over feedstock costs has fallen to a 2015 low, Platts calculations show, as a balanced market left consumers eager to normalize November spreads over feedstocks to levels similar to the start ...
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South Africa exported 5.93 million mt of thermal coal in September, slipping 15.1% year on year due to lower shipments to India, Europe, Turkey, Pakistan and the US, according to customs data released late Friday. The volume was, however, ...
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This year marks the 60th birthday of the adorable female rabbit, Miffy. Created in 1955 by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, Miffy is not only a toy popular among adults, but a cartoon character that many kids have grown up with. "Dick Bruna ...
On January 5, 2015, People’s Daily published a signed article of Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng entitled “Deepening Opening up and Promoting the Great Rejuvenation—Learning from Collections of Key Speeches of General ...
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In 2014, a total of 23,778 foreign-funded enterprises were approved in China, up 4.4% year on year, with actually utilized FDI of 736.37 billion yuan (US$ 119.56 billion), up 1.7% year on year (excluding data of banking, securities and ...
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Against the backdrop of a severe international investment environment, great difficulties and challenges from the downward pressure of the domestic economy, China’s overall absorption of FDI remained stable in 2014, with the quality ...
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Chromaflo Technologies has appointed Dowd and Guild Inc. to distribute and represent its colorants and chemical dispersions in the eleven U.S. states west of the Rocky Mountains and the south western states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and ...
Tags: Chromaflo, Additives, colorants, chemical dispersions
Munich-based Solar Frontier Europe, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – is supplying additional CIS PowerModules to ...
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The optoelectronic components market is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.41% from 2015 to $55.53bn by 2020, according to the report 'Optoelectronic Components Market by Component (LED, Laser Diode, Image ...