M. Holland’s partnership with Lavergne, a global manufacturer of customized compounded engineered resins, was recently shared in Plastics Today. To learn more about this agreement to distribute post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins for customers in North America, click here.
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Crude rose half-a-percent Tuesday, extending gains from the previous session on further hopes that U.S. financial-sector turmoil is being contained.
In mid-morning trading today, WTI futures were up 0.6% at $73.60/bbl, Brent was up 0.2% at $78.81/bbl, and U.S. natural gas was down 0.6% at $2.02/MMBtu.
U.S. crude stocks likely fell by just over 6 million barrels last week, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Government data is due today.
The EU may allow individual member countries to effectively block importing natural gas from Russia without imposing broader sanctions, underscoring the bloc’s determination to limit its dependence on Russian energy.
BP and Abu Dhabi’s state oil giant offered to jointly acquire 50% of Israeli offshore natural gas producer NewMed Energy for around $2 billion, a move to expand in the gas-rich offshore basin straddling Egypt, Israel, Cyprus and Lebanon.
California lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that would limit the amount of profit that oil companies can earn in the state, a bid to penalize refiners who charge excessively high margins, according to bill proponents.
Europe extended a cap on natural gas prices for power generation in Spain and Portugal until 2024, among efforts to protect consumers from sharply higher rates.
Italy approved new funding totaling $5.41 billion to support households and businesses in paying energy bills.
China currently dominates in terms of renewable energy production capacities.
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The average price of diesel in the U.S. fell 5.7 cents last week to $4.128 per gallon, the lowest level in more than a year.
Union Pacific agreed with a union to maintain two-person crews, dropping its recent demand for one-person crews.
Major Japanese construction equipment manufacturers with facilities in China are turning that country into an export hub for their products amid a slowdown in Chinese infrastructure investment and domestic demand.
The Georgia Ports Authority announced a $170 million investment to acquire 55 next-generation hybrid cranes.
South Africa’s government demanded that its state-owned rail and port operator mend plaguing operations issues to end a national logistics crisis, which has stranded stockpiles of commodities and forced shippers to redirect traffic to ports outside the country.
Maersk’s port operating arm APM Terminals is partnering with the Vietnamese Hateco group to expand capacity at Vietnam’s northern Haiphong City port.
Electric-vehicle-maker Lucid Group will lay off 1,300 employees, or 18% of its workforce, as the startup looks to cut costs ahead of a second model release next year.
Chinese electric-vehicle-maker BYD posted an elevenfold increase in quarterly profit, extending its substantial lead in China’s domestic market.
The Conference Board’s widely tracked index of U.S. consumer confidence rose unexpectedly to 104.2 in March, up from 103.4 in February.
The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened by 0.6% in February to $91.6 billion, mostly on a decline in exports, according to the Commerce Department.
More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter calling for a pause in AI development until rules and protocols can be established to mitigate potential harmful effects on society.
Nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce is exposed to job encroachment by advanced AI chatbots, according to new research.
U.S. single-family home prices fell 0.2% in January compared with the prior month and rose a modest 3.8% year-over-year, according to the widely tracked Case-Shiller index, potentially pulling more buyers back into the housing market.
Americans expect home prices to rise just 2.6% over the next year, sharply lower than the 7% expectation measured a year ago.
Defaults and vacancies are rising at high-end office buildings across the U.S., a result of dual pressures from remote work and rising interest rates.
Shares of ride-hailing company Lyft fell Tuesday after its incoming CEO said the firm was not for sale, contrary to market expectations.
Global experts say Russia’s economy is starting a descent into long-term regression.
China’s air pollution spiked this month, a result of rebounding industrial activity and unusually warm weather.
Canada recorded a record budget deficit of $6.44 billion Canadian dollars in the first ten months of the current fiscal year.
A gauge of South Korean consumer sentiment rose to 92 in March, its highest level in nine months, as inflation expectations eased from a month earlier.
Australia’s annual rate of inflation hit 6.8% in February, an eight-month low.
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