LG Chem announces to strategically drop the price of OLED light panels from third quarter of 2014. The market price was set at $600/Klm or above, depending on order quantities. Today, LG Chem suggests a new price of $200/Klm. LG Chem offers ...
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The Asian naphtha industry agreed Thursday that carbon disulfide, or CS2, levels in the light distillate have to be reported for cargoes originating from Sikka, India, and those from Western arbitrage flows into the region. Currently, ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea. This is the nineteenth and final administrative ...
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Acrylic resins, manufactured by the polymerization of acrylates or methacrylates, find use in several applications ranging from paints and coatings to automotive and construction. Demand for acrylic resins is dependent on the health of the ...
Tags: Acrylic Resins, coating, Paints, Plastics, Adhesives
Transparency Market Research (TMR) has released a report on acrylic acid. Acrylic acid is a colorless organic compound derived by the oxidation of propylene. It is the simplest carboxylic acid that exists in a polymerized form and has a ...
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Panasonic and its subsidiary Sanyo have agreed to plead guilty to price fixing conspiracies involving laptop battery cells and automotive parts. They will pay a total of $56.5 million in criminal fines, the U.S. Department of Justice said. ...
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The CFR China phenol price was mostly hovering below producers' breakeven costs for the last eight months due to high supply and weak demand, and there was little chance for respite with new capacity coming on stream. This is just the ...
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Today (Monday) is the first full day of PACRIM 10. The meeting was kicked off with the welcome address from H.T. Lin, the chairman of the conference. He briefly reviewed the history of PACRIM and introduced the technical programs held in ...
Tags: Ceramic Materials, Construction
South Korean electronics group LG Chem's US subsidiary, LG Chem Michigan (LGCMI) will start production of automotive lithium-ion battery cells at its Holland, Michigan facility in July 2013. The company has started the testing runs at the ...
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Silver nanowire material from Cambrios enables 100-square-cm OLED tiles with no visible metal grid, making the technology more viable in SSL applications. Partners Cambrios Technologies and Novaled have claimed a breakthrough it creating ...
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US automaker General Motors’ (GM) Korean subsidiary GM Korea is planning to manufacture its next-generation electric vehicles (EV) in South Korea, as part of its attempt to restore momentum for the stalling vehicle technology. The ...
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The spot market for LPG cargoes loading out of the Middle East has softened amid weak demand from Asian buyers, according to market sources. This was reflected in the spot cargo price differentials, with Arcadia heard selling 44,000 mt of ...
On Thursday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea. This is the 18th administrative review of ...
Tags: flat steel, US DOC, steel flat products
The FOB Korea toluene 2013 term contracts were mostly concluded at a premium of $7-8/mt to the Platts FOB Korea toluene marker, traders and producers said Wednesday. This is an increase of around $2-3/mt from premiums for 2012 ...
Tags: toluene, toluene market, Honam, South Korea
Chris Berry, founder of Mountain Partners asset management company, provided an interesting summary of the graphite space while speaking at the recent Graphite Express Conference in Vancouver. The conference featured a keynote address ...