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...Executives from four of Formosa Plastics Groups’ listed companies — Formosa Plastics, Nan Ya Plastics, Formosa Petrochemical and Formosa Chemicals & Fibre — have all seen revenues decline recently as the...
...Did her four home-baked pies help mend relations with the press corps, which she recently said was “purposely misleading the American public”?...
...Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom is the largest company avoided by all of the 34 active funds, followed by country peers Formosa Plastics and Nan Ya Plastics....
...To me the manic, flashing, multi-coloured eyes give off a creepy air of over-enthusiasm, the voice (a bit like E.V.A from Wall-E) is sterile, almost sinister....
...Contrast this situation with a decade ago, when the outlook was grim for US manufacturing of bulk chemicals such as ethylene, used as a building block for a wide variety of products including plastics....
...The aim is to devise production processes that avoid waste; keep high- and low-value materials separate; and, like Mr Harrison, enable spent goods to be remanufactured to their original condition, rather...
...Earlier this year it sold Gala TV, bought in 2011 from MBK, to local conglomerate Formosa Plastics for an undisclosed sum....
...Formosa Plastics Group, the largest Taiwanese investor in Vietnam, is demanding $3m in compensation from Hanoi in the wake of the anti-China riots that damaged many factories, with other manufacturers set...
...However, he adds, by the end of the decade it is likely that those projects and possibly others from Shell, Formosa Plastics of Taiwan and Aither Chemicals of the US will be on stream....
...Plastics of Taiwan, Sasol of South Africa, PTT Global and Indorama of Thailand, and Braskem of Brazil....
...Plastics Group; and Li Shih-tsung, chairman of Lung Yen Life Service Corp....
...; and William Wong, chairman of Formosa Plastics Group....
...While Évora also makes plastic lids as well as aluminium cans in a joint venture with US-based Crown Holdings, nappies is where Enck sees the most room for international expansion....
...Even Saudi Basic Industries Corp, the world’s largest petrochemical company, is in talks about a possible investment in the US, its chief executive told the Financial Times recently....
...Royal Dutch Shell, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil and Formosa Plastics have also been making progress with plans for new crackers: Shell in Pennsylvania and Dow, Exxon and Formosa in Texas....
...On its own, the Taiwanese manufacturer of Dynamic Random Access Memory chips has lost money in 17 of the past 18 quarters, and has just tapped its parent, Formosa Plastics, for its third capital infusion...
...All four of the Formosa Group’s Taiwan-listed companies – which together form a large, vertically-integrated conglomerate in petrochemicals, plastics, ports, and electronics – fell by their daily limit of...
...In China, General Motors is preparing to deploy the EN-V, its tiny two-seat, self-driving experimental car, in the country’s largest “eco-city” on the outskirts of Tianjin....
...They include South Korean companies such as Hyundai Heavy Industries and Kia Motors, Taiwanese ones such as Nan Ya Plastics and Formosa Chemicals & Fibre, and Australia’s Newcrest and Origin Energy....
...Formosa Petrochemical, a key part of the Formosa Plastics Group, one of the world’s biggest plastics producers, said it would benefit from stronger global demand as well as relatively tight refining capacity...
...The banking sub-index rose 2.2 per cent, with Chinatrust Financial rising 1.1 per cent to T$18.2, while Formosa Plastics – set to benefit from lower tariffs – climbed 2 per cent to T$67.50....
...BMW’s family of electric vehicles due out in 2013, code-named “Megacity”, will feature a lightweight carbon-fibre and plastic shell on an aluminium chassis....
...Vietnam Steel Corp is also facing increased competition as foreign rivals, including Posco of South Korea and Formosa Plastics of Taiwan, expand their output in the country....
...* News Corp sells controlling stake in China TV channels * Ecuador renegotiates with foreign oil firms * Plastic Logic in sale talks with Rusnano * BRICs losing to Turkey in stocks as Indonesia swaps...
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