China's chemical sector saw its profits increase 12.2 percent year on year to 434 billion yuan ($71.06 billion) in 2013, data from the country's top economic planner showed. The sector's added value also grew by 12.2 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Chemical Fertilizer, Plastics
BioAmber Inc., an industrial biotechnology company producing sustainable chemicals, has signed a take-or-pay contract for bio-based 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) with Vinmar International. Under the terms of the 15-year master off-take agreement, ...
In Q4 Unipetrol Group posted operational profit EBITDA LIFO of CZK 252m. Due to lower petrochemical and refinery production sales, as well as refining margins, revenues of the Company decreased by 5% y/y and in Q4 amounted at CZK 25.070 bn. ...
Tags: Unipetrol Group, Textile
China imported 1.85 million mt of natural gas via pipelines in December 2013, a 20.1% year-on-year increase, data released by the General Administration of Customs showed Wednesday. Customs data records natural gas trade data in metric ...
Tags: Natural Gas, LNG imports
Zamakona Yards delivers the Ro-Ro ramp to the Tenerife Container Terminal (TCT) Thursday, Jan 23, 2014 This past Wednesday, 15 January, Zamakona Yards carried out the load testing and delivery of the movable ramp for the Roll on-Roll off ...
According to a report from the Lake Carriers’ Association, shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 24.6 million tons in 2013, a decrease of 2.8 percent compared to 2012. Some of the decrease can be attributed to the early onset ...
According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in 2013 global crude steel output reached 1.61 billion mt, increasing by 3.5 percent on year-on-year basis. In December of the same year, world crude steel production for the 65 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
BASF is implementing a series of measures in its paper chemicals business to further strengthen the competitiveness of its Performance Products segment. In response to decreasing market demand BASF is adjusting capacities in its European ...
According to a statement released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), in 2013 Turkey's crude steel production decreased by 3.4 percent year on year to 34.65 million metric tons, due to the decreasing price ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
Nearly 180 yarn and fibre exhibitors will participate at the Yarn Expo Pavilion, a designated fibre and yarn exhibition area within Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition 2014 from 3 to 5 March 2014. The fast growing ...
Research commissioned by ABB Group, the power and automation technology company headquartered in Switzerland, confirms that energy efficiency remains a high priority for industrial executives. Of more than 300 in manufacturing and power ...
Tags: Save Energy, automation technology
As China's economy increase slows, the United States' demand growth for oil outstripped China's last year for the first time since 1999, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency. According to an IEA report, US oil demand ...
Tags: Oil Demand, Mineral
China saw a rise in crude oil imports from Kazakhstan last year via a transnational pipeline to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Oil imports hit a record high of 11.85 million tons in 2013 through the China-Kazakhstan ...
Tags: Oil Imports, Mineral
Markets for use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and to power industrial equipment are poised to take off in the next few years, the head of Encana said in Houston on Tuesday. "We at Encana believe that natural gas creates an ...
Tags: Natural Gas, transportation fuel
Local news reported Tuesday that the Douglas County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with the city of Superior that will begin the process for Reston, Virginia-based International Metallics Corporation (IMC) to build an ...