U.S. cotton demand for 2014/15 remains projected at 13.4 million bales or 5 percent below the 2013/14 estimate. Exports account for 9.7 million bales while mill use contributes the remaining 3.7 million bales. Despite higher U.S. ...
Tags: Cotton Demand, textile industry
Spot prices of South African 42-44% chrome ore, known as UG2 (upper group 2), have risen by 10-20% from March as platinum mine strike continues, producer and trade sources said Friday. UG2, a byproduct of platinum, was heard trading at ...
Tags: Chrome Ore, platinum byproduct
Oil futures held near nine-month highs Monday on concerns that escalating violence in Iraq could spread to the country's oil-producing southern region. ICE August Brent settled 48 cents higher at $112.94/barrel. The front-month contract ...
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A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
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The Asia to Europe arbitrage window for methanol will remain shut in the third quarter of 2014 on expectations of higher export volumes from the Middle East and stronger Chinese demand that would soak up Asian supplies, sources said late ...
Tags: Methanol, natural gas
Kazakhstan's CPC Blend crude has fallen to a 23-month low versus Dated Brent, as weak end-user demand has continued to weigh on values for prompt supplies. CIF Augusta CPC Aframax cargoes were assessed at a $1.73/barrel discount to the ...
Tags: Crude Oil, CPC Blend crude
Spot prices of 75%-Si ferrosilicon in Asia this week remained supported by tighter supply and improved demand among some exporters in China. Platts assessed the Chinese spot price at $1,330-1,370/mt FOB China Thursday, slightly higher ...
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Activity at present.There are stunt, marketing events with lasting appeal and AD which allow activities of stationery business be widely known in the shortest time.With the increasing intense competition in the market,there are more and ...
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New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart is considering $5bn sale of drink cartons manufacturer SIG Combibloc Group, people known with the matter said. Goldman Sachs Group has been hired by Hart's packaging conglomerate, Reynolds Group ...
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Novelis, a subsidiary of India-based Aditya Birla Group, has cast the first production-sized ingot at its €200m aluminum recycling and casting center in Nachterstedt, Germany. According to the company, the first production-sized ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that Dr John Glaser has joined its ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
Daily purchases from China's state reserve have fallen in recent weeks amidst market perceptions that reserve sale prices may be lowered, competition from foreign cotton, and the prospect of new-crop cotton offered below the current reserve ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Textile
MicroSense LLC of Lowell, MA, USA, which supplies dimensional non-contact wafer metrology equipment for manufacturing silicon, compound semiconductor and power devices as well as magnetic metrology systems for MRAM (magnetoresistive ...
Tags: LED, LED Chip, LED component
Development of office supplies attract many entrepreneurs, while there comes the fierce competition to the market, this competition in industry makes stationery merchants no longer wait for customers like before,those stationery ...
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Japanese spot import prices of high-carbon ferrochrome rose this week as Indian producers cut output amid a decline in domestic chrome ore feedstock supplies, market sources said Friday. Platts assessed the spot price of high-carbon lumpy ...