DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont(TM) Ti-Pure® titanium dioxide grades sold in Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.
Effective Oct. 15, prices for DuPont coatings, plastics, specialty, paper and laminate titanium dioxide grades will increase by 150 Euros per tonne in all Euro markets of Western and Central Europe and North [...]

DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont(TM) Ti-Pure® titanium dioxide grades sold in Latin America.
Effective Oct. 1, Latin American prices for all DuPont titanium dioxide grades will increase by $150 (USD) per metric ton. This increase is in addition to the price increases previously announced.
“Demand for TiO2 remains strong. Higher raw [...]

DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont(TM) Ti-Pure® titanium dioxide grades sold in Latin America.
Effective August 1 2008, prices for DuPont coatings, plastics, specialty, paper, and laminate titanium dioxide grades will increase $150 (US$) per metric ton in Latin America.
“While demand for TiO2 remains quite strong, our costs - from raw [...]

Cavico Corporation, a leading infrastructure development company in Vietnam, today announced that Cavico Mineral Exploitation is expanding construction and exploring for additional deposits at the Thung San mine. Cavico Mineral Exploitation is an entity formed by the two wholly owned Cavico subsidiaries, Cavico Tunnel and Cavico Hydropower.
The Thung San mine, situated on 20 hectares of [...]

China Gengsheng Minerals, Inc., a materials technology company in China with products capable of withstanding high temperature, saving energy and boosting productivity in certain industries such as steel and oil, today announced that it has signed its first sales contract for its fine precision abrasive products with a Taiwan-based vendor. The term of the contract [...]

Wellex Mining Corp. of plastics king William Gatchalian is investing P473 million for an ore project in Dinagat Province.
The project involves the production of beneficiated nickel ore for exports to Macau, Japan, China, Taiwan and India.
The mining facility will have a capacity of 1.2 million wet metric tons of beneficiated nickel ore per year.
It will [...]

South Africa exported 30.336-million tons of iron ore in 2007, which represents an increase of 16 percent year- on-year.
According to Yieh Corp, which is affiliated with Taiwan’s biggest privately owned steel group the E-United Group, 2007’s figures were 4.175-million tons up on the 26.161-million tons exported by South Africa in 2006.
The bulk of the imports [...]

With the rising price of oil, bicycle manufacturers are jumping on the electric bicycle bandwagon, exhibiting e-bikes and an e-bike test track at the Taipei International Cycle Show in Taipei this week to promote the use of the battery-powered bikes.
The biggest bicycle show in Asia and third biggest in the world is also organizing [...]

The country’s tuna industry, which is centered in this city, would be adversely affected should Chinese companies be allowed to conduct offshore mining ventures in the disputed Spratly Islands, a nationwide militant fisherfolk group said.
Fernando L. Hicap, chairperson of the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), said the alleged secret deal between the [...]

An oil refinery would jeopardize Costa Rica’s environment as planned by a Chinese company known as a polluter, environmental groups said Saturday.
Oilwatch Mesoamerica and other groups warned that recent agreements between China and Costa Rica included a refinery built by China Petroleum Corporation.
“We are studying the history of this company, which has little concern [...]