Total intends to invest €160 million before 2016 to adapt its petrochemical platform in Carling, in the Lorraine region of eastern France, and to restore its competitiveness. Total plans indeed to develop new activities on the ...
Tags: Petrochemical Platform, Textile
Sims Metal Management expects tight ferrous scrap flows and US scrap processing overcapacity, two major headwinds impacting margins, to improve in its current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2014. The global scrap firm notes an improvement ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Mineral
PV market 'reaches turning point' thanks to Asia demand 22 Aug 2013 Solarbuzz sees demand in China and Japan doubling in the second half of the year. PV demand in the Asia-Pacific region PV demand from the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region ...
President Xi Jinping's visit to a recycling company Monday drew renewed attention to environmentally friendly industries. Xi said recycling is a sunrise industry and that garbage is a misplaced resource, during his visit Monday to a ...
It was usually quiet Friday morning at the Baoshan Cement Co., Ltd. factory in east China's Jiangxi Province. The factory's production lines were shut down after it was put on a list of companies designated by the Ministry of Industry and ...
The sun is finally rising on the global solar business, with growing demand in developing regions helping to ignite the first increase in industry-wide capital spending in three years in 2014, according to research firm IHS. Global ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Solar Industry
State's support for new environmental initiatives promotes emerging sectors China's investment in renewable energy will bring vast opportunities and challenges for the country's overall development, a senior official said at a recent ...
Tags: renewable energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Exports of Chinese photovoltaic (PV) cells and components fell 31 percent year on year in the first half of 2013, due to overcapacity and trade disputes, according to latest data. Export value stood at 6.5 billion U.S. dollars in the ...
Tags: Chinese PV Products, PV Cells
More than 60 billion PET bottles were recycled in 2012, according to Petcore Europe, a non-profit European trade association based in Belgium. Petcore chairman Roberto Bertaggia said the consumption of PET bottles is showing clear trends ...
Tags: Pet Bottles
Air Liquide Group, the world's largest industrial gas producer by revenue, has launched the second phase of its investment program, called Tengfei II, in China this year. The program caters to the country's growing demand for oxygen, ...
Tags: Clean Energy Boom
An insider from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has disclosed that the ministry is carrying out checks on a second batch of domestic steel enterprises to see whether they conform with required standards in the ...
Tags: Steel Overcapacity, MIIT
The NSC Group has commissioned the voluntary "Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI)" certification of its entire fleet from Germanischer Lloyd (GL). GL verifies the globally valid EEDI environmental and efficiency standard for vessels and ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
PET is the largest plastic material recycled in Europe, with the equivalent of more than 60 billion bottles recycled in 2012. PETCORE EUROPE Chairman Roberto Bertaggia says: "Despite the poor economic situation in the European region, the ...
Tags: PET Bottle Recycling, PET Bottle, Packaging, Printing
In early 20th-century China, personal transportation didn’t get much better than a rickshaw. On the other side of the world, automakers like Winton Motor Carriage Company in Cleveland, Ohio were bringing automobiles to the masses. ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported selected financial metrics and business highlights for second-quarter 2013 (excluding revenue and earnings, due to the firm's ongoing ...
Tags: Veeco MOCVD MBE, Electrical, Electronics