Plastics News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Regional PET bottle resin prices also were up 2 cents for the month, according to market sources contacted by Plastics News. Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said. Mexico was the largest source of U.S. billion pounds in 2022.

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Plastics News

MARCH 24, 2023

Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic began, sources said. By comparison, the export market share of North American PE sales averaged only 24 percent from 2015-18. Prices for all grades of PE were down a net of 2 cents for full-year 2022.

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E&T

MAY 26, 2023

The hydrogen system was first successfully trialled back in 2020, whereby the team at Hofors reprogrammed its control system with H 2 parameters, allowing the team to switch between H 2 or LPG/NG as a fuel source to heat its furnaces at its rolling mills. The company also uses only steel scrap as input material instead of iron ore.

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Fastener News Desk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The International Longshoremen’s Union is demanding significantly higher wages and a total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and container movements that are used in the loading or loading of freight at 36 U.S. SOURCE: PBS NEWS RELATED CONTENT: We do not believe that robotics should take over a human being’s job,” he said.

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SMMT

AUGUST 3, 2023

Arla Foods is using seven new Volvo FM bio-LNG 6×2 tractor units, which refuel at Gasrec’s open-access site at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal and at the Gasrec built station at Reed Boardall’s depot, in Boroughbridge. “The demand right now is exceptional.”

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