On December 1, 2015, the Ministry of Commerce released the No.60 announcement, publishing the final decision on the imported methyl methacrylate originating in Singapore, Thailand and Japan. MOFCOM affirmed that dumping exists in the ...
Tags: MOFCOM, Anti-dumping Investigation, Methyl Methacrylate
On December 3 2015, the High-level Dialogue between Chinese-African Leaders and Business Communities and the 5th Conference of the Chinese and African Entrepreneurs, jointly held by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, China Council for the ...
Plastic totes maker Newell Rubbermaid announced it was buying consumer and sporting goods maker Jarden in a cash and stock deal worth about $13.2 billion. The deal brings together two companies with numerous familiar consumer brands under ...
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Confectionery company Mondelez’s Romanian arm is seeking a buyer to sell its chocolate factory in Poiana, Romania. The buildings and the 13,000sqm land area costs €2.1m, excluding taxes. The factory is located in Brasov. One ...
Colombia in January will begin importing 39 MMcf/d of natural gas from neighboring Venezuela to meet domestic needs, ending decades of natural gas self sufficiency, the head of Ecopetrol said Monday. The country is negotiating to increase ...
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Sales growth in China's auto market will resume in 2016 after having stagnated since 2015, while automakers' margins will narrow due to fiercer competition, Fitch Ratings predicted Tuesday. Reduced purchase taxes and recovering consumer ...
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Volkswagen has announced that it has found out the 2016 models affected by the CO2 issue which involves around 430,000 vehicles belonging to Audi, SEAT, Skoda and Volkswagen brands. The company said that these vehicles have "implausible ...
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PeopleForBikes last week was in Washington D.C. for an all-women’s Fly-in with sixteen of top bicycle industry executives to help make biking better in America. PeopleForBikes leaders and industry executives met with members of ...
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For third-quarter 2015, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $68.7m, down on $114.4m a year ago, negatively impacted by continuing erosion in relevant underlying ...
Tags: chemical products, metal
An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
For third-quarter 2015, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
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Argentina's biodiesel production is on track to decline 30% this year, as rising domestic consumption fails to compensate for dwindling exports, the head of an industry group said Monday. Claudio Molina, the executive director of the ...
Tags: Biodiesel, Output, fuel additive
Eric Sievers, the CEO of Ethanol Europe, the holding company of ethanol production facility Pannonia, Tuesday urged support for biofuels from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and from the European Union itself, at an industry event in ...
Tags: Ethanol, Biofuels, renewables
The US deficit, down from the $1 trillion-plus levels of Obama's first four years and a $483 billion gap in fiscal 2014, will stay largely flat in 2016, then begin to march upward due to rising costs for debt and caring for fast-retiring ...
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Four islands in Fiji, Greece, the United Kingdom and Canada were put up for auction on China's largest online shopping platform Taobao, with three of them sold within 12 hours. Any Chinese citizen who put up a 1,000 yuan ($159) deposit ...
Tags: Islands, Taobao, Wealthy Chinese, ownership