Tags - Coronavirus
Workers on oil and gas projects in Western Australia (WA) will be exempt from travel restrictions imposed by the state government that has halted travel as part of emergency measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
News ID: 8848    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

Polymer prices in Asia are coming under further pressure because of a lack of resin demand as the region grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 8847    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

Several Chinese provinces have lowered their coronavirus emergency levels, likely paving the way for an increase in business and industrial activity that could lift power consumption and coal demand.
News ID: 8845    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

China is ramping up production of oil, petrochemicals, metals and coal as the coronavirus outbreak comes under control, with a lockdown in hardest-hit Wuhan set to be lifted early next month. But demand may take longer to recover.
News ID: 8844    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

Tata has not idled any blast furnaces across its Port Talbot and IJmuiden sites in the UK and the Netherlands, despite reducing production because of lower demand.
News ID: 8843    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

Several sponge iron mills in India, the world's biggest producer of the material, have shut operations as the country intensifies efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
News ID: 8842    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

Colombia's second-largest coal miner Cerrejon is slowing its coal mining and port operations from today in an attempt to help contain the spread of coronavirus, making it the first coal miner in the country to take measures in response to the outbreak.
News ID: 8839    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

Primary aluminium production was unaffected by coronavirus in February, but producers are now curtailing operations because of government measures intended to contain the pandemic or because of the lack of demand from end markets.
News ID: 8837    Publish Date : 2020/03/24

Iran lashed out at the World Bank for not inviting the country to an initiative by the WB and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to coordinate efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 8836    Publish Date : 2020/03/23

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the US government is partly accountable for unemployment and other economic woes in Iran.
News ID: 8835    Publish Date : 2020/03/23

Australian companies involved in Argentina's lithium brine industry have suspended on-site work at projects until the end of March to comply with government's coronavirus containment measures.
News ID: 8830    Publish Date : 2020/03/23

Prices of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) film in China have fallen close to a 12-year low on the back of weak demand amid the coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 8829    Publish Date : 2020/03/23

Polypropylene (PP) raffia prices in China have slumped to a four-year low as demand continues to decline amid the coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 8828    Publish Date : 2020/03/23

Luxembourg-based producer ArcelorMittal is the only firm that is allowed to continue producing steel at its Taranto site in Italy after the government tightened measures on non-essential industrial activity over the weekend in its continuing fight against the spread of the coronavirus.
News ID: 8827    Publish Date : 2020/03/23

Indian steel mills are reducing output in response to a halt in operations at automakers and a shortage of staff as workers rush back to their hometowns in fear of the coronavirus outbreak in major cities.
News ID: 8826    Publish Date : 2020/03/23

The Italy-based aluminium alloy producer Raffmetal has extended this week’s shutdown through next week to permit employees a full two-week quarantine period amid the coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 8808    Publish Date : 2020/03/20

Air New Zealand will receive up to NZ$900mn ($519mn) in emergency funding from the country's government as it manages the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on air travel, which has forced it to cut almost all of its international flights.
News ID: 8806    Publish Date : 2020/03/20

Indian converters are turning to locally produced polymers as the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a sharp drop in the rupee.
News ID: 8805    Publish Date : 2020/03/20

French road builder Colas has halted all road construction work in France to comply with the government's lock-down measures to battle the coronavirus pandemic, which has stopped nearly all its bitumen purchases.
News ID: 8802    Publish Date : 2020/03/20

The slowdown in China's economy in the first quarter "will be significant and will leave a deep mark for the year", although there are signs that activity is returning to normal as the coronavirus outbreak fades, the IMF said on 20 March.
News ID: 8801    Publish Date : 2020/03/20