The Orange County Water District (OCWD) in California, USA, has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2014 for its pioneering work in groundwater management and water reclamation using advanced water reuse technologies, as well as its ...
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that it delivered 1,800,000 mt of rolled steel to Russia-based pipe manufacturers in 2013, registering a 10 percent increase compared to 2012. Severstal stated that the growth was primarily ...
Tags: Pipe Producers, Steel
Wohl Associates is a family-owned and operated business, which sells used packaging and processing machines. The company is based in Bohemia, NY and has been serving the industry with integrity for over 40 years. Their dedication to ...
Tags: Capping Machine, Wohl Associates
US-based flexible packaging company Bemis has signed an agreement with Hood Packaging to sell its paper packaging division. As part of the deal, Hood Packaging will acquire offices and manufacturing facilities of the division, situated in ...
Its latest soft drinks research found this growth has been fuelled by health concerns towards the lack of safe drinking water across many African countries, combined with rising consumer incomes. In the last five years, growth levels have ...
Tags: Packaged Water Market, Packaging, Printing
From a technical point of view the market did resolve the flag formation that we had mentioned last week and broke out to the upside, which propelled March to a six-month high, while May traded at its best level since April 2012. On ...
Tags: Upward Trend, Cotton Futures
A new natural gas discovery in southeast Sichuan province - the single biggest ever - could ease domestic shortages in as little as a year and give China a stronger hand in energy negotiations with Russia, according to some experts. China ...
Tags: natural gas, domestic shortages
Taiwan's state-owned CPC sold 1.35 million mt of bunker fuel in 2013, up 2.6% from a year earlier, a company source said Friday. There are two bunker suppliers in Taiwan, while CPC covers more than 90% of supply there, the source added. ...
Tags: Bunker Fuel, Mineral
Argentine Presidential Chief of Staff Jorge Capitanich said Monday that a proposed reduction in state energy subsidies will help increase investment in the sector, making it possible to boost gas production and scale back imports. "What ...
Tags: Energy Subsidy, Gas Imports
India's state-owned refiners, who have all posted net losses over the first nine months of fiscal year 2013-2014 (April-March), are expected to turn in a profit for the full year as the government is likely to fully compensate them for ...
Tags: Refiners, Full-Year Losses
Alcoa has announced it will permanently close its Point Henry aluminium smelter and two rolling mills in Australia. The smelter and an adjacent rolling mill are located in Geelong, Victoria. The second mill and a recycling facility are ...
Tags: aluminium, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to Russian Railway statistics, in January this year direct supplies of steel scrap by rail to Russian metallurgical companies and pipe plants totaled 585,100 mt, down 5.6 percent compared to January 2013 and half the volume ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Organic farmers in California face unique issues in this devastating drought, leading some to bow out … or sell cows for hamburger meat San Joaquin Valley organic dairy farmer Tony Azevedo's business has dried up—literally. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Organic Dairy
One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern levels. But now studies of a small sea sponge fished out of a Danish fjord shows that complex ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
This year's spike of U.S. liquified propane (LP) prices has been blamed on increased grain drying, harsh winter weather, low supplies and exports. But, the increased amounts of product being exported, while many U.S. LP users struggle to ...
Tags: Propane, propane stocks, LP prices