In May this year, South Korea's new car registrations rose 0.7 percent month on month to 13,411 units, increasing by 14.5 percent year on year, according to the data released by the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association ...
Tags: New Car Registrations, Mineral
Asian butadiene prices are at a 3-1/2 half year low amid weak demand and a glut of synthetic rubber stocks, Platts data showed. The FOB Korea benchmark for butadiene stood at $1,350/mt on June 17. The last time butadiene prices were ...
Tags: Butadiene, Weak Demand
The price spread in Asia between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene soared to an all-time high of $501.50/mt Monday, Platts data showed, as the SM market surged on news that South Korea's Lotte Chemical had delayed the restart ...
Tags: SM-benzene, Chemicals
The price spread between CFR Far East Asia polypropylene and feedstock propylene narrowed to flat, with both prices assessed at $1,425/mt on Friday, according to Platts data. PP prices shed $5/mt day on day to $1,425/mt CFR Far East Asia ...
China has taken delivery of around 88,000 mt of Iranian LPG in June after a break of four months, as the Islamic republic extends exports to North Asia in its attempts to circumvent sanctions aimed at preventing it from exporting oil ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Shell's hopes for a new gas-to-liquids mega project on the US Gulf Coast would benefit from much-improved process efficiencies, but any resulting cost savings could be limited by the need to build most of the plant outside the US, Shell ...
Tags: gas-to-liquids mega, Chemicals
According to the Mineral Industry Survey released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), stocks of imported and domestic scrap in the US at the end of March this year amounted to 3.56 million mt, increasing slightly by 1.7 percent from the end ...
Tags: Iron and Steel, Mineral
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's ferrous scrap exports totaled 775,344 metric tons in May this year, falling by 12.1 percent month on month and up 12 percent compared to May 2012. Meanwhile, in ...
Tags: Scrap Exports, Mineral
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), following the 40.9 percent month-on-month increase recorded in April, in May this year Turkey's stainless flat steel imports rose by 10.7 percent compared to the ...
Tags: Stainless Flat Steel, Mineral
Verizon Wireless has completed the initial rollout of its 4G LTE network, covering 95% of the U.S. population, and is now looking to reuse other spectrum for LTE and deploy small cells using the technology. On Thursday, in Parkersburg, W. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
China has taken delivery of around 88,000 mt of Iranian LPG in June after a break of four months, as the Islamic republic extends exports to North Asia in its attempts to circumvent sanctions aimed at preventing it from exporting oil ...
Tags: Iranian LPG, Chemicals
The Asia-Pacific region is Marimekko's second-largest market after Finland. Growth in the area has been very strong in recent years, and in accordance with its internationalisation strategy Marimekko is seeking to further reinforce its ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
French retail giant Carrefour is said to quit the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Sources said recently that Carrefour, the biggest retailer in the world and the second-biggest one in Europe, was considering selling business in both the ...
A big data project called Digital Delta aims to investigate how to transform flood control and the management of the entire Dutch water system and save up to 15% of the annual Dutch water management budget. IBM will collaborate with ...
Tags: water system, Computer Products
In spite of assertions by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and others that the age of privacy is over, new research commissioned by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has revealed that over three quarters of consumers globally ...
Tags: Computer Products, software