US-based Minerals Technologies (MTI) has signed an agreement with Zhejiang Zhengda Paper Group to build a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Zhejiang Province, China. Expected to be operational in the fourth quarter ...
Methanex, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to major international markets, has announced its new regional contract methanol prices for North America and Asia Pacific regions. For the North American region, ...
Tags: Methanol, organic chemical
The U.S. economy took a beating from an especially harsh winter during the January-March quarter, skidding into reverse for the first time in three years. But spring has arrived and along with it, signs that the chill was just a temporary ...
Major Indian steelmaker JSW Steel (JSW) has announced its financial and operational results for the fourth quarter ended March 31 of the financial year 2013-14, posting a net profit of INR 4.62 billion ($78.4 million), up 40.8 percent year ...
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India's state-owned gas transportation utility GAIL Monday announced another quarter in which natural gas transmission and sales volumes fell, as domestic production continued to decline. GAIL's natural gas transmission for the ...
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In the first quarter of the current year, France's gross domestic product (GDP) remained stable quarter on quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). In ...
Seneca Foods Corporation reported that net earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014, decreased to $13.8 million, or $1.23 per diluted share, compared to $41.4 million, or $3.57 per diluted share, in the fiscal year ended March 31, ...
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In its financial results according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for the first three months of the current year, the net loss of Russian pipemaker TMK totaled $16 million compared to a net profit of $85 million in ...
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Saudi Arabia's Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company or Petro Rabigh's second phase expansion project has turned it into one of the strongest "volume growth stories" in the country's chemical industry, UK-based bank HSBC said in a ...
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Sentiment among printers, on the general state of trade, remained positive on balance during Q1, according to the latest BPIF Printing Outlook survey. The balance between those believing that the general state of trade improved (30%) rather ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Print demand
According to the flash estimates released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, during the first quarter this year gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.2 percent in the euro area and by 0.3 percent in the EU-28, ...
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India-headquartered steel giant Tata Steel Group has issued its group financial results including Tata Steel Europe for the fourth quarter and the full financial year ended March 31. Tata Steel Group's net profit doubled to INR 10.36 ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.6 percent in March from February, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation ...
China-based polysilicon maker Daqo New Energy has almost doubled its annual production capacity from 6,200 tonnes to 12,000 tonnes in an expansion project totaling US$22 million, and will invest another US$59 million to further expand ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Metallurgy, Mineral
Sharp Solar returned to the top of the solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipment rankings during the first quarter of 2014, after a five year absence, according to Solarbuzz. Sharp was the solar PV industry market leader for 45 years ...
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