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March 31, 2022
BASF could stop production if natural gas supplies fall to half its needs – Reuters
Mar. 30, 2022 2:19 PM ETBASF SE (BASFY)BFFAFBy: Carl Surran, SA News Editor3 Comments
BASF (BASFY -2.9%) warns of potential damage to its operations from Europe’s power crunch, saying it would need to stop production if natural gas supplies fall to less than half its needs, Reuters reports.
There is no substitute for natural gas as a raw material or as an energy source, BASF says, and gas shortages would leave it without not enough energy for the chemical production process, and lack of a critical raw material for the manufacture of products.
In Europe, the company says it uses 60% of the gas it buys to generate energy needed in production and 40% as a raw material to produce important basic chemicals and a large number of products for almost all industrial sectors.
BASF has said it plans to increase capex spending every year until 2024, but high energy prices are weighing on its performance, Ellsworth Research writes in an analysis posted recently on Seeking Alpha.
March 31, 2022
Recticel completes the sale of its Bedding activities to Aquinos Group
Regulated information, Brussels, 31/03/2022 — 17:45 CET, 31.03.2022
Recticel announces that on 31 March 2022, it successfully sold its Bedding activities to to the Portuguese privately owned Aquinos Group.
Olivier Chapelle (Chief Executive Officer): “The closing of the transaction went smoothly, and within the expected timeframe. The divestment of the Bedding business line is another essential step in simplifying our group structure and in realizing our strategic objectives, while further strengthening our capital structure.
With the Aquinos Group, I am confident that we have found a new owner with the commercial and industrial capabilities to leverage the full potential of our Bedding brands, proprietary technology and highly qualified teams. Our Bedding employees and customers will find in Aquinos a truly dedicated player in the European sleep comfort market. I also want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the professionalism, dedication and loyalty shown over the years by our Bedding teams, to whom I wish all the best in the future.”
https://www.recticel.com/recticel-completes-sale-its-bedding-activities-aquinos-group.html
March 31, 2022
Recticel completes the sale of its Bedding activities to Aquinos Group
Regulated information, Brussels, 31/03/2022 — 17:45 CET, 31.03.2022
Recticel announces that on 31 March 2022, it successfully sold its Bedding activities to to the Portuguese privately owned Aquinos Group.
Olivier Chapelle (Chief Executive Officer): “The closing of the transaction went smoothly, and within the expected timeframe. The divestment of the Bedding business line is another essential step in simplifying our group structure and in realizing our strategic objectives, while further strengthening our capital structure.
With the Aquinos Group, I am confident that we have found a new owner with the commercial and industrial capabilities to leverage the full potential of our Bedding brands, proprietary technology and highly qualified teams. Our Bedding employees and customers will find in Aquinos a truly dedicated player in the European sleep comfort market. I also want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the professionalism, dedication and loyalty shown over the years by our Bedding teams, to whom I wish all the best in the future.”
https://www.recticel.com/recticel-completes-sale-its-bedding-activities-aquinos-group.html
March 31, 2022
22,000 Union Workers At 29 West Coast Ports May Strike
by Tyler DurdenThursday, Mar 31, 2022 – 10:45 AM
By Dees Stribling of Bisnow National
The international supply chain crisis that has impacted U.S. logistics firms, retailers and consumers could intensify this summer.
West Coast union dockworkers may strike if they don’t come to an agreement to replace their existing contract with marine terminals. The contract is set to expire at the end of June.
Major retail chains have already ordered extra goods from Asia as insurance against a breakdown in contract talks, keeping the goods at newly developed storage yards near the twin California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Such lots allow retailers to move containers more quickly, preventing them from being delayed under piles of cargo at congested ports.
Walmart alone has room for 4,000 shipping containers at the ports’ overflow yards, Pacific Terminal Services Vice President of Commercial Operations Sepehr Matinifar told The New York Times.
Space constraints in the area led to the rise of the new storage yards. By Q2 2021, industrial vacancy near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was below 1%, according to CBRE.
Even with beefed-up orders kept in storage yards, a slowdown or strike by West Coast dockworkers would compound the pandemic-induced supply chain woes that have seen record backlogs of container ships off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach waiting to be unloaded.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents nearly 22,000 workers at 29 ports along the West Coast, recently put together its contract negotiating team. Nearly three-quarters of those workers are employed at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the major nexus for goods shipped from Asia to North America.
In 2014, the last time the union and shipping companies negotiated a contract, a labor slowdown brought activity at Pacific ports nearly to a standstill.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/22000-union-workers-29-west-coast-ports-may-strike
March 31, 2022
22,000 Union Workers At 29 West Coast Ports May Strike
by Tyler DurdenThursday, Mar 31, 2022 – 10:45 AM
By Dees Stribling of Bisnow National
The international supply chain crisis that has impacted U.S. logistics firms, retailers and consumers could intensify this summer.
West Coast union dockworkers may strike if they don’t come to an agreement to replace their existing contract with marine terminals. The contract is set to expire at the end of June.
Major retail chains have already ordered extra goods from Asia as insurance against a breakdown in contract talks, keeping the goods at newly developed storage yards near the twin California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Such lots allow retailers to move containers more quickly, preventing them from being delayed under piles of cargo at congested ports.
Walmart alone has room for 4,000 shipping containers at the ports’ overflow yards, Pacific Terminal Services Vice President of Commercial Operations Sepehr Matinifar told The New York Times.
Space constraints in the area led to the rise of the new storage yards. By Q2 2021, industrial vacancy near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was below 1%, according to CBRE.
Even with beefed-up orders kept in storage yards, a slowdown or strike by West Coast dockworkers would compound the pandemic-induced supply chain woes that have seen record backlogs of container ships off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach waiting to be unloaded.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents nearly 22,000 workers at 29 ports along the West Coast, recently put together its contract negotiating team. Nearly three-quarters of those workers are employed at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the major nexus for goods shipped from Asia to North America.
In 2014, the last time the union and shipping companies negotiated a contract, a labor slowdown brought activity at Pacific ports nearly to a standstill.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/22000-union-workers-29-west-coast-ports-may-strike
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