Supply/demand dynamics for rare earth elements

Rare Earth Elements is expected to exceed the supply as very few mining companies are developing REE due to environmental regulations, and because of long lead times, supply constraints are likely to continue in the short term. The Chinese government estimates that at the current pace of mining, China will run out of all heavy REE to be found in China in approximately 15 years and to preserve REE for domestic use they have reduced their REE exports by 72 percent in last 2 years.

MAG completes sale of non-automotive business unit

MAG IAS GmbH completes the sale of its Industrial Equipment business to the Fair Friend Group and concentrates its activities on the global automotive markets.

Coperion K-Tron, Eriez, ROTEX, Coperion, Quadro to present complimentary food processing seminar

“Innovations in Food Safety & Processing” seminar will be held on 7 January 2014 in Wuxi and 9 January in Guangzhou, China.

HARTING: 25th Anniversary in Hong Kong, 15th Anniversary in China

HARTING China and HARTING Hong Kong have celebrated their 15th and 25th anniversary respectively on 7 Nov 2013.

India's Chemco Group to set up factory in Bahrain

Chemco Group is setting up a factory at the Bahrain International Investment Park (BIIP) in Salman Industrial City.

A prosperous prospect for India beauty market

Annual growth in the Indian beauty and cosmetics markets is estimated to remain in the range of 15-20 percent in the coming years, twice as fast as that of the US and European markets.

Feng Ping workers arrested for holding protest

A number of workers from Feng Ping Tooling & Plastics Mfg. Co. Ltd. were arrested on December 23 while holding protest.

Target pays for selling allegedly fake MAC

Target has been ordered to pay MAC Cosmetics $1 million dollars in the settlement of a legal battle over the store's sale of a range of allegedly fake MAC cosmetics in 2012.

China XD Plastics to construct production and R&D facility in China

The new facility would expand production capacity by 300,000MT and equipped with a professional R&D and training center.

Plastivision India 2013 a great success with over 110,000 visitors

Plastivision India 2013 was great success with over 110,000 visitors and more than 1225 exhibitors from all over the world.

Constar to sell its US assets to Amcor Rigid Plastics USA

Transaction between packaging companies is expected to be completed by first quarter of 2014

Turkey prepares for 21st International Anfas Food Product Fair

Organisers expect about 45,000 visitors at the four-day show in Antalya