The Asia price spread between paraxylene and feedstock naphtha narrowed $16.12/mt day on day to $485.88/mt last Friday, nearing the lowest level seen in 2013, amid rising PX supply, Platts data showed Monday. The spread is at the second ...
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SPX, a US-based manufacturing and industrial equipment supplier, has secured a $26m contract from multinational conglomerate Lotte to provide dairy processing systems for expansion of the latter's manufacturing facility in Japan. As per ...
Prices for sapphire, due to potential extended use in smartphones, are expected to increase 10-15% in the first or second quarter of 2014, Taiwan-based makers cited Russia-based sapphire maker Monocrystal as indicating. Following use to ...
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Zepol Corporation, a leading trade intelligence company, found that U.S. imports for September of 2013 were surprisingly high. September increased by 2% in TEU (twenty-foot-container) volume from last month and 7% from September of last ...
Thin-film processing equipment maker AVACO Co Ltd of Daegu, South Korea, which specializes in sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment (in-line, cluster, and roll to roll), atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, back-end-of-line ...
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World crude steel production in September showed an increase of 6.1 percent year on year, reaching 132.54 million metric tons, while a two percent growth was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
Tags: Crude Steel, steel, Construction
South Korea imported 4,055 mt of denatured ethanol from Brazil in September, after an absence of close to two years, according to customs data released Tuesday. Brazil last shipped 6,231 mt of denatured ethanol to South Korea in October ...
China-based chip maker San'an Optoelectronics Co Ltd is projected to take the lead in gallium nitride (GaN) LED wafer capacity by the end of 2014, overtaking current leader Epistar Corp of Taiwan, according to market research firm IHS Inc. ...
Tags: LEDs, Electrical, Electronics, Optoelectronics
China-based die vendor Sanan is projected to take the lead in GaN LED wafer capacity by the end of 2014, overtaking current leader Epistar of Taiwan, according to IHS. While Epistar is forecast to continue its spot at the pinnacle in 2013 ...
Tags: GaN LED Wafer, Lighting
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, today announced that its ‘HTRAC’ all-wheel drive system will be made available for the first time on the all-new Genesis, the second generation of Hyundai’s ...
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Unlike Japan’s traditional dress—kimono or the Chinese cheongsam, Korea’s traditional dress hanbok has remained far from global recognition until recent years. Donned by both men as well as women, traditionally ...
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Unlike Japan's traditional dress—kimono or the Chinese cheongsam, Korea's traditional dress hanbok has remained far from global recognition until recent years. Donned by both men as well as women, traditionally it takes around two ...
Tags: Apparel, Korean Dress, Hanbok
Russia plans to transport 30 million tons of crude oil to China per year through the Skovorodino-Mohe pipeline from January 2018. Rosneft Oil, the biggest oil firm in Russia, said on October 11 that it had reached an agreement with ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Crude Oil
The London Metal Exchange (LME) may become the first international exchange house to establish commodities warehouses in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ), accroding to Xinhua News Agency. It's reported that copper and ...
Tags: LME, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Stevia Corp., a farm management company focused on the economic development of stevia, the fastest growing product in the alternative sweetener sector, is pleased to advise of its recent entry into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with ...
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