Reuters reported that the Italian government said on Monday Prime Minister Mr Mario Monti would meet the head of steel maker Ilva, to discuss its future after the company said it may be forced to close. The announcement followed the ...
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Interfax reported that Ukraine has to reduce purchases of Russian natural gas under price pressure and plans to buy 18 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia in 2013. Mr Viktor Yanukovych president of Ukraine said at a meeting with Mr ...
Tags: gas, natural gas, gas imports
Gulf News reported that the recently issued World Oil Outlook report by OPEC comes at a time when the oil refining industry is passing through many changes around the world. While the refinery distillation capacity is stagnant in the US, ...
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Proactive Investors reported that Anglesey Mining described the half year, to end of September, as 1 of mixed fortunes. The group's 19.7% owned iron mining associate Labrador Iron Mines improved its operations substantially with a big ...
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Q2 2012 activity remained weak Large country differentials as capacity shifts from west to east Sluggish demand outlook 2013 Supply pressures will remain high Production activity in the electric domestic appliances industry in the ...
A new meeting with the international market of the steel industry at the fifth Made in Steel will be held in Milan on 3 - 5 April 2013. This event keeps its original conference and exhibition formula: a combination that provides ...
Tags: steel supply chain, fifth Made in Steel, Euro-Inox and Eurometal
BBC News reported that Mr Arnaud Montebourg French minister for industrial recovery, accusing the steelmaker of lying and disrespecting the country, has said that ArcelorMittal is no longer welcome in France. Mr Montebourg told French ...
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French media reported that French President Mr François Hollande will meet with Mr LN Mittal CEO of ArcelorMittal on Tuesday as a showdown over the company's French operations continues a day after a government minister criticized ...
Tags: Francois Hollande, LN Mittal, steel magnate
Reuters reported that London copper edged down after rising for two weeks in a row although signs of economic recovery in top consumer China and hopes for Greece to avert an imminent bankruptcy kept a floor under prices. Copper prices ...
PTI quoted a CII survey saying that a majority of units in the manufacturing sector are expected to register low to negative growth in the October to December quarter of this year, mainly due to high interest rates and increasing prices. ...
Tags: CII survey, CII Ascon, manufacturing sector
The government has published details of its long-awaited Energy Bill, which is designed to keep lights on while driving emissions down. This will allow energy firms to charge households an extra £7.6 billion until 2020, with the ...
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The SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) launched CSS (Certified Steel Standard), a new voluntary standards programme for professional bodyshop repairers in Ireland. The standard incorporates the industry agreed technical ...
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Major issues still need to be addressed, but presuming the United States gets its fiscal house in some semblance of order, the U.S. economy could be in a transition from sluggish growth to a longer period of moderate growth, according to a ...
Tags: MAPI, GDP growth, Manufacturing production
Trend cited Mr Nikolai Ureki Romanian Ambassador to Kazakhstan as saying that Mr Nursultan Nazarbayev president of Kazakhstan is expected to visit Bucharest in early 2013. Mr Ureki said that "In early 2013, Mr Nursultan Nazarbayev is ...
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Actually Completed Proportion (%) Accumulated from January Growth Rate over Same Period of Previous Year Accumulated from January Same Period of Previous Year ...