Asian demand, especially by China, is exploding, but benefits to the nation are years away The global liquefied natural gas war is heating up with an increasing number of companies adding to their production capacities, driven by the ...
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SPX, a US-based manufacturing and industrial equipment supplier, has secured a $26m contract from multinational conglomerate Lotte to provide dairy processing systems for expansion of the latter's manufacturing facility in Japan. As per ...
International technology group Andritz has secured a contract from the Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso to deliver equipment for modernization of the company's fiberline. The new equipment will be deployed at Stora Enso's ...
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Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem will expand its domestic linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) production capacity with an investment of about BRL50m ($23m). With the expansion, the LLDPE production is expected to increase by ...
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Foolproof Brewing, a producer of hand-crafted beers, has partnered with Northeast Beverage, a Connecticut-based independent beverage distributor, to expand the distribution of its beers across Connecticut from 28 October 2013. The Rhode ...
Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor (SFTM) is set to start the production of 2.7l Land Cruiser Prado SUV at its Chengdu plant in southwest China from March 2015. SFTM, which is a vehicle production joint venture between Toyota Motor and the China ...
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For this year August and September two months, Bayi Iron & Steel slag recycling level hit new high, up to 63 kg iron element per ton of iron recycled, which nearlyt doubled compared to the level during the same period last year. Based on ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Prices for sapphire, due to potential extended use in smartphones, are expected to increase 10-15% in the first or second quarter of 2014, Taiwan-based makers cited Russia-based sapphire maker Monocrystal as indicating. Following use to ...
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The increased demand for sapphire substrates in non LED applications including for smartphone camera lens caps plus home button covers, the supply and demand situation has had a turnaround. Sapphire substrate used in smartphones will take ...
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Austria-based Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a flat bar rolling mill for the Chinese steel manufacturer Qingdao Special Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Qingdao Steel). The new mill with an annual production capacity ...
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World crude steel production in September showed an increase of 6.1 percent year on year, reaching 132.54 million metric tons, while a two percent growth was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
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China based LED package company MLS Lighting 2013 performance for packaging components and lighting products was good. The company expects to reach the target of RMB 3 billion (US$ 492 million) for 2013. MLS is actively pursuing discussions ...
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The 3Q performance for the new Harvetek Hsinchu factory profits were driven up due to rising utilization rates, said the company Chairman Billy Wang. The company expects 3Q results to make a turn for the better and ultimately affect 2013 ...
Idemitsu Kosan would soon restart its olefins conversion unit (OCU) at its Chiba refinery, which was shutdown due to a fire incident earlier this week. “The fire occurred at the refinery on the morning of October 16, 2013,” ...
The Western Asian Arab country of Kuwait’s state owned petrochemical firm, Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) is expecting an annual 46 percent increase in its production capacity after the initiation of new strategic projects for ...