Global high barrier packaging film consumption is at approximately 1.76 million tonnes in 2014 with a value of $15.9 billion. This is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5.0% between 2014 and 2019 according to a new market report by Smithers ...
Honeywell Resins and Chemicals announced that it will expand production capacity at its Chesterfield facility to meet demand for high-grade nylon polymers for packaging film and other applications. The new production line will be able to ...
Tags: Nylon Polymer, Resins, Chemicals
Nutricia, a subsidiary of France-based yoghurt maker Danone, has agreed to acquire Gardians spray dryer and blending, packing and can-forming activities of the Sutton Group in Auckland as well as the spray dryer of Gardians, located near ...
Tags: Milk Drying, Packing Assets
Amira Nature Foods (ANFI), a leading global provider of branded and packaged Indian specialty rice, announced that it had entered into a $8.3 million contract through its Indian operating subsidiary with Buhler India Private Limited ...
Environmental Protection Agency personnel conducted an inspection of the Mid-Continent Fractionation and Storage facility in Conway, Kan., in April, 2012. As a result of the inspection, Mid-Continent has agreed to spend approximately $2 ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Service, Energy
Out of 3 crore 75 lakhs bales of cotton crop predicted, approximately 3 crore 10 lakh bales have been pressed till 15th April as per trade sources and the daily kappas arrivals is quickly dropping to 95,000 bales per day. As per trade ...
Tags: Cotton Market, cotton crop
The production of textile and clothing in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan decreased by 33.6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2014, reports avesta news agency quoting data from the Ministry of Industry and New ...
Since the beginning of April when the Chinese government announced a lower starting auction price, the pace of sales from China’s reserve increased and the Type 328 China Cotton Index (a daily index of prices for domestic cotton ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Prices
Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) successfully completed the reconstruction in one of their blast furnaces this week, with an investment of US$7.6 million. The project interconnects the systems hot and cold air, gas collection and ...
Tags: Blast Furnace, AHMSA
In the first quarter this year, Turkey's finished steel output increased by 2.9 percent to 8.74 million metric tons, despite the 0.5 percent decrease in the country's crude steel output in the given period to 8.43 million metric tons, both ...
Tags: Finished Steel, long products
In the first quarter this year, Turkey's scrap imports increased by 1.2 percent to 4.40 million mt, valued at $1.70 billion, down 1.2 percent, while the country's domestic scrap supply volume decreased by 3.4 percent to 2.88 million mt, all ...
Tags: Scrap Imports, scrap
Ternium S.A. reported Wednesday that first-quarter net income increased to $150.0 million from $129.3 million in the previous year. Net sales increased to $2.149 billion from $2.136 billion in the same quarter of 2013, primarily from ...
Tags: iron ore, Steel shipments
Mexican steel manufacturer Simec Group reported a 34 percent decrease in its operating income in the first quarter, due to higher cost of sales. In its report submitted to the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV ), the company, which counts ...
In March this year, Japan's iron and steel product exports amounted to 3.87 million metric tons, decreasing by five percent year on year and increasing by 20.3 percent compared to the previous month, while Japan's iron and steel product ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Product
Cold-rolled coil pricing increased in the US on Tuesday as buyers and sellers reported higher offers and transactions. "I have not heard of anyone quoting below $800/st for CRC and more have been between $810-820/st. Everything that I am ...
Tags: CRC Prices, cold-rolled