The £570,000 investment was installed earlier this month, doubling the label printing capacity and is already in production alongside Springfield’s HP Indigo digital label presses. Dennis Ebeltoft, Springfield operations ...
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German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a semi-continuous billet mill for Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, the new integrated steel plant Taiwan-based Formosa Group is building in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. The produced billets ...
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China's Jinling Mining hiked its iron ore concentrate production in 2013 to 1.23 million mt, up 6.9% year on year in 2013, the Shenzhen-listed company said in its financial report released Tuesday. Jinling, one of the few Chinese iron ore ...
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The BASF TOTAL Petrochemicals LCC (BTP) joint venture (60 percent BASF, 40 percent Total) announced the startup of a 10th furnace at its steam cracker facility in Port Arthur, Texas. The additional furnace improves feedstock flexibility, ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has selected Taiwan-based solar cell makers Motech Industries and Gintech Energy as respondents to its anti-dumping investigation. There were 24 Taiwan-based solar cell makers answering a DOC ...
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Global petrochemicals producer Oxea is to raise its European production capacity of dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a general-purpose plasticizer, by 50,000 mt/year by the fourth quarter of 2015, it said Monday. Oxea has signed a memorandum ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, Sinopec, said Monday it expects its Fuling shale gas project in Chongqing, central China, to reach production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters/year during 2017, up from 600 million cu m/year currently. ...
Mainly due to fast growing global demand for LED lighting, the LED industry will enjoy three golden years during 2014-2017, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar. Global demand for ...
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Mainland Headwear Holdings Limited, the new parent of San Diego Hat Company that also manufactures headwear for some of the largest U.S. brands and operates Lids and New Era stores in Asia, reported revenue for the year ended 31 December ...
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The increase in infrastructure and maintenance spending by the private and public sector in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya is lending momentum to the industrial paints and coatings market in these countries. Nigeria presents the most ...
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Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate has strengthened cocoa liquor processing capabilities at its sites in France and Germany with an investment of €10m. The expansion is part of the company's efforts to cater to the increasing demand for ...
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East African nation of Tanzania is set to become the largest soda ash producer in Africa after the latest discovery of the compound in Arusha region’s Engaruka Basin, reports Daily News. Soda ash, known chemically as sodium ...
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The spread between the spot prices for acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer in Europe surged to an all-time high of Eur1,040/mt ($1,444/mt) Thursday, as VAM prices soared and feedstock AA prices remained stable. In December last year, the ...
Shell's total production of natural gas in China last year rose 25.2% from 2012 to 164,000 Mcf/d, the company indicated in its annual report released Thursday. Output was, however, still lower than in previous years -- 174,000 Mcf/d in ...
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Japanese companies are willing to invest in Iran’s petrochemical sector, Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Koji Haneda has said, FARS News Agency reported. During a tour of Ilam petrochemical complex in Western Iran, Mr. Haneda said ...
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