KrisEnergy, a Southeast Asia-focused oil and gas company, said Thursday that its Tayum-1 exploration well in the Kutai production sharing contract offshore Kalimantan, Indonesia, has encountered gas. A preliminary well log evaluation ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
TOKYO — July 11, 2013 --- Teijin Limited announced today that it has developed a new type of meta-aramid fiber offering the world's highest level of heat resistance combined with excellent dyeablility, which the company will produce ...
Tags: Teijin, Apparel Market, Textile
Compared to the 2010-2011 two-year period, the drop in demand from the European continent seems to have turned around and the EU is once again the number one purchaser of Italian glass processing machines, accessories, and special products, ...
Tags: glass, Construction
According to data released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance, the country’s exports of hot rolled (HR) steel flat products totaled 1.29 million tons in May, rising by 3.8% from a month ago and increasing by 3.5% year ...
Tags: HR Steel Flats, Mineral
The current generation Suzuki Swift has been facelifted, and the jacked up, all-wheel-drive version is now available in right hand drive for the UK market. The Swift ‘4×4’ gets 25mm extra ground clearance, and ...
Tags: Suzuki Swift, All-Wheel-Drive
In most of the leading apparel-exporting countries, the wages for garment workers have stagnated or declined over the past decade, says a latest report. Among the top four apparel exporters to the United States, prevailing wages in ...
Tags: Garment Workers, Wages
Teijin Limited announced that it has developed a new type of meta-aramid fiber offering the world’s highest level of heat resistance combined with excellent dyeablility, which the company will produce in a facility to be built in ...
American casual dining restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse has introduced new Great Barrier Eats, a special menu featuring seafood such as crab, tuna, shrimp and salmon. The new Great Barrier Eats include Great Barrier Trio appetizer, ...
Automobile manufacturer Honda Automobile Thailand (HATC) has commenced the construction of its new automobile production plant in the home-market with an investment of about THB17.15bn ($552.4m). Located at the Rojana Industrial Park in ...
Tags: Honda, Automobile Production
AGC Flat Glass (Thailand) Plc (AGC), the country's largest glass maker, foresees a 10% drop in revenue this year following the closure of one of its plants to pave way for a 2.4-billion-baht factory with upgraded technology. Its plant in ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's hot rolled (HR) flat steel exports totaled 1.29 million metric tons in May this year, increasing by 3.8 percent month on month and up 3.5 percent compared to May 2012. ...
Japanese automaker Mazda has started construction of new $257m transmission plant, dubbed as Mazda Powertrain Manufacturing (Thailand) (MPMT), in Chonburi province. Operations at the new SKYACTIV transmission manufacturing facility are ...
Tags: Mazda, Transmission Plant
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-March), Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) has ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
IDG News Service - Chinese Internet giant Tencent is rolling out a global marketing campaign for its WeChat messaging app in a bid to expand the product's reach across 15 different markets, and boost its popularity among users outside ...
Tags: Computer Products, IDG, WeChat
On Tuesday, a number of US mills filed antidumping/countervailing duty against the majority of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) imports from the majority of supplying countries. Although a case has been generally expected for some time now, ...
Tags: Mineral, steel, antidumping