Bayer MaterialScience is increasing its production capacities in the Asia/Pacific region to meet the continued growth in demand there for raw materials for coatings and adhesives. Ground was broken at the site in Shanghai, China, recently ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coatings
According to a report from Grand View Research, the global market for bio-succinic acid is expected to reach $992.9 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 23.3 percent from 2014 to 2020. The recognition of succinic acid, as a potential ...
Tags: Acid, Bio-Succinic Acid
In order to take full advantage of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, which is likely to be finalized this year, Vietnamese textile and garment industry would have to invest more in domestic yarn and fabric production. ...
The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is planning to harvest more than 1.05 million tons of cotton in 2014-15 by sowing seeds on 545,000 hectares of land, reports the State News Agency of Turkmenistan. At a meeting of the Cabinet ...
Tags: Cotton, Turkmenistan, cotton seeds
Democratic Republic of Congo aims to double tax revenues from minerals but investors warned that an overhaul of the mining code could remove incentives to invest there. Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo told a mining conference in the ...
Tags: DRC Mining, Mining Tax
Canadian railways carried 25.3 million metric tons of freight in January, down 2.7 percent from the same month last year. The drop in shipments occurred despite the strong growth in traffic received from the United States. Non-intermodal ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Canadian Rail Tonnage
Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) has announced plans to convert the No. 3 newsprint machine (D3) situated at its DeRidder, Louisiana mill, US, to containerboard, producing lightweight linerboard and medium. The machine is expected ...
MHI receives order for very large LPG carrier from Astomos Energy, identical to ship type ordered late last year Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Astomos Energy Corporation for a ...
Tags: LPG Carrier, MHI, Ship Type
The global market for 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BDO) is expected to reach $6,947.1 million by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Growth of footwear industry, mainly in Asia Pacific, is expected to drive the market for ...
Tags: BDO Market, global market, butanediol
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 3,250,000 net tons (nt) of steel in February, including 2,240,000 nt of finished steel (up 1.4 percent ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, finished steel
In 2014, Australia's exports of metallurgical coal are expected to increase by an estimated 2.4 percent to 174 million metric tons, according to a report by the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). Over the period ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, metallurgical coal, mines
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from South Korean steelmaker Hyundai Steel for a continuous bloom casting machine, a large bar rolling mill and a small bar and wire rod mill ...
Toyota Financial Services (TFS) issued the auto industry’s first-ever Asset-Backed Green Bond in the amount of $1.75 billion. The offering was upsized from $1.25 billion to accommodate demand as institutional investors demonstrated ...
Tags: auto industry, Toyota
Fonterra has started construction of IDR357bn ($31.3m) dairy blending and packing plant in West Java, Indonesia, which will be its first manufacturing facility in the country. The investment is said to be the largest for the company in ...
The exports of textiles and apparel from Pakistan increased by 8.28 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of the financial year 2013-14 that began on July 1, according to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Textile Exports, apparel, cotton