China's Bohai Commodity Exchange, or BOCE, a government-backed online trading platform, has added molybdenum to its list of spot commodities, and this is expected to boost moly trade in the mainland and increase price transparency, industry ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has raised its ex-works butadiene price in East China by Yuan 100/mt to Yuan 8,800/mt Friday, traders said. The latest price is equivalent to $1,182/mt on an import parity basis. But the ...
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China’s electronics manufacturers are expected to purchase US$34 million worth of components on average in 2014, representing a substantial increase of 26 percent from US$27 million in 2013. Manufacturers purchased 60 percent of ...
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The US sheet steel market might be in for another stretch of relative stability, as new upcoming outages balance import pressure and drab demand, market sources said Thursday. One industry consultant said manufacturing -- and thus steel ...
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Turkish petrochemical producer Petkim Thursday increased the prices of polyolefins by $15-20/mt, sources said. Petkim was not immediately available to confirm. New list prices for low density polyethylene, high density PE injection ...
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Asian paraxylene buyers placed their counterbids for June at $1,150-1,170/mt CFR, more than $100/mt lower than nominations for the Asian contract price, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. There are four PX ACP sellers in ...
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Australia is due for a second wave of LNG project development, despite spiraling costs that have hindered further progress in recent years, Santos Vice President of LNG Markets and Eastern Australia Commercial Peter Cleary said. Speaking ...
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Chicago CBOB gasoline for delivery through June 4 jumped 9 cents/gal Thursday to NYMEX July RBOB futures plus 3 cents/gal on the back of refiner buying and a government report showing tight gasoline supply in the Midwest, sources said. ...
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Nigerian light sweet crude Akpo has seen its values fall sharply amid weaker demand because of a drop in refining margins, trading sources said Thursday. About a month ago at the start of the trading cycle of the Nigerian June loading ...
Platts Chinese import premiums for Good Western aluminum rose to $330-360/mt CFR plus LME cash Wednesday from $270-280/mt a week earlier as premiums in Europe, the US and Japan remained high. Western producers' offers to Japan for third ...
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Renault’s 100 per cent electric-powered delivery vans will shortly join Australia Post’s fleet in Melbourne and Sydney. The Renault Kangoo Maxi Z.E. (Zero Emission) electric van, currently not sold in Australia, is widely used ...
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The Japanese and Singaporean governments are moving to revise the economic partnership agreement they formed in 2002, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, expected to affirm the plan on Saturday. Japan will ...
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, in response to demand from clients in Japan and the US, have stepped into production of PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) monocrystalline solar cells, according to industry sources ...
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Although recent industrial accidents coupled with other issues have raced challenges for the Bangladesh textile industry, which is the second largest exporter of readymade garments (RMG), the Government of Bangladesh and the textile ...
Northern California ethanol prices for prompt delivery soared to a five-week high Wednesday as two aggressive buyers entered the market short on product, sources said. Platts' Northern California rail car ethanol for prompt delivery was ...