The Asian naphtha industry gathered Thursday for the start of the 22nd CFR Far East Open Specification Naphtha Meeting to debate among other things a recommendation that seeks to widen the scope of naphtha cargo origins for inclusion in an ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Oncology-focused drug development company Curis has obtained the conditional approval for Erivedge (vismodegib) to treat adult patients with symptomatic metastatic basal cell carcinoma (BCC) or locally advanced BCC inappropriate for surgery ...
The arbitrage window for toluene from Asia to the US was open on paper Tuesday, the FOB US Gulf price assessed at 375 cents/gallon or $1,140/mt overnight, up 12 cents/gallon from Monday amid stronger demand. Meanwhile, FOB Korea toluene ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil
The production and imports of incandescent lighting will be banned in South Korea from next year, the government said Tuesday. Starting from Jan. 1, 2014, imports of incandescent light bulbs, which have been labeled low-efficient, will be ...
Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or "the Company") has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. The project ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
Hanjin Chemical, a specialty paint manufacturer, has begun operations of its Hanoi, Vietnam plant for specialty coating materials used for mobile devices. "We established the plant to supply paint materials to Samsung Electronics Vietnam ...
Indian handicrafts companies participating in the three-day GIFTEX WORLD 2013 generated a business of worth over US$ three million which concluded at Tokyo Big Sight Japan. The Executive Director of Export Promotion Council For ...
Tags: Handicraft, Apparel, Textile
RGA Reinsurance Company has been granted a preparatory license by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to operate a licensed life reinsurance branch in Shanghai, China, which is likely to be fully operational within one year. ...
SoloPower Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaic (PV) cells and lightweight flexible solar modules using a proprietary roll-to-roll electro-deposition process, says that an ...
Tags: SoloPower CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
According to South Korean industry news, Kingsun will hold Korea business launching ceremony on the 18th in Seoul. Kingsun founded in 1994, with China's largest lighting R & D center and production base of 300,000 square meters, mainly ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED, Lights
Senior executives of Philips Lighting Division recently expressed in a new LED lighting conference that Philips will strengthen strategy for Korean LED lighting market. South Korean government held a positive attitude towards the ...
Tags: Philips, LED Lighting, Lights
It is learned that Turkey will defend itself at a hearing at the US Trade Department this month that is part of the antidumping investigation imposed by the US against steel pipe imports from 9 countries. According to head of Turkish ...
Tags: Steel Pipe, Mineral
In the first half of the current year, South Korea's car production fell by 4.3 percent year on year to 2,279,790 units, according to a report released by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE). The report says that the fall on ...
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There is a growing demand from consumers globally to gift, share and resell digital content and video games according to research findings unveiled today by WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments. ...
Taiwan-based LED chip makers will generate total production value of US$1.82 billion in 2013, growing 19.2% from 2012, according to Digitimes Research. Among LED applications, lighting will account for 33% of the value, followed by 32% ...