The European Commission has cleared commodities trading group Trafigura's minority holding in Belgium-based zinc and lead producer Nyrstar. In November, Trafigura told the EC its minority 20.02% stake in Nyrstar -- held through its ...
Tags: Nyrstar, Zinc, lead metal
Brazil's Braskem has been buying bigger volumes of naphtha from Europe in recent days due to low stocks in Brazil as the petrochemicals producer continues to negotiate with Brazilian state-led oil company Petrobras over the terms of a ...
The US vinyl acetate monomer market is seeing a tightening of supply that will likely push pricing higher through the first quarter of 2016 despite falling feedstock prices and a weaker energy sector, sources said. US VAM increased $20/mt ...
New Orleans bunker fuel remained in short supply Thursday, which has caused high-sulfur product prices in that port to spike relative to the nearby and competing Houston market. New Orleans IFO 380 3.5%S was assessed at $205/mt ex-wharf ...
The US fuel oil hi-lo, the spread between US Atlantic Coast 1%S fuel oil and US Gulf Coast 3%S fuel oil, fell below $1/b Thursday for the first time since October on an expected lack of demand for power generation. Platts assessed USAC ...
The Asian gasoil market saw a sharp reversal in fortunes this month as higher exports from India and North Asia and weakness in Europe, despite the cold season, clamped shut arbitrage outflows from Asia, resulting in a buildup in supply ...
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According to a Bloomberg report, Apple’s secret facility in Taiwan is working on display technology, most likely OLED panels. The lab in Longtan employed around 50 engineers and other workers are creating new screens for devices ...
Tags: Apple, OLED panels, LG Display
China's climate endeavors, including its self-imposed commitments and extensive diplomatic efforts before and during the Paris climate talks, have been an indispensable part of global efforts leading to the making of final breakthrough at ...
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After eight months of patient, indirect and difficult contact with the Dutch collector, the villagers of Yangchun in south-east China's Fujian province failed to get back the mummy Buddha statue of Patriarch Zhanggong which was stolen in ...
Tags: Buddha Statue, cultural relics
Bellingham receives smart city streetlight conversion. Echelon Corp., a leading independent control networking company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), announced today the installation of its Lumewave by Echelon lighting ...
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) commends the U.S. Department of Energy on its Dec. 2, 2015 decision that mandatory energy conservation standards for high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps are not technically feasible ...
Tags: NEMA, HID Lamps, Traditional Lighting
We have heard it for a while now – “with the advent of LEDs, retrofit lamps are on their way out, and the future belongs to dedicated products such as integrated fixtures”. Today I’d like to take another look at this ...
Tags: LED Lighting, bulb, integrated fixtures
The new product range "parathom Advanced GLOWdim" LEDs from Osram enables warmer glow for LED lamps. (Osram/LEDinside) In the evenings, and especially when evenings become longer, many people love the snug, warm glow of a burning candle ...
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The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards program that governs utility emissions will remain in effect while the US Environmental Protection Agency, under instruction from the US Supreme Court, continues to review the rules, an appeals court ...
Tags: MATS, coal-fired power
Restart of nuclear reactors in Japan, growing renewable sources of energy and a slow economy are expected to push down the country's LNG consumption by 2020 by as much as 10.5% from 2014 levels, Eclipse Energy said this week. Japan's LNG ...
Tags: nuclear reactors, LNG