Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand from China and Japan during the second half of 2013 is forecast to reach 9GW, representing an increase of 100% compared to first-half 2013 and 70% compared to second-half 2012. Overall, PV demand from the Asia ...
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China is expected to surpass the US as the world's largest oil importer by 2017, and the opposing trend of growing crude oil imports by China and falling imports by the US will affect inter-regional trade flows and the cost to both ...
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Raymundo Díaz O?ate, president of Mexico's National Confederation of Steel Distributors (CONADIAC) announced in a press release this week that the economic recovery will probably not engage fully in the second half of 2013, but ...
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A Louisiana state panel has approved using $20 million in state Mega Project funding to bring Benteler Steel to the Port of Caddo-Bossier.? According to local reports, the funds will go toward infrastructure improvements and site/facility ...
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The rising cost of petrol helped to push up debit and credit card spending in New Zealand's retail trades by 0.4 percent last month, the government statistics agency announced Friday. Spending on fuel, which was up by 39 million NZ ...
Reportedly, Japanese Nisshin Steel announced to restart its carbon steel cold rolling mill at its Sakai works in Osaka which was pending since a month ago due to fire accident. However, the plant doesn't operate normally because the company ...
Japan's exports of stainless steel flat products totaled 60,891 tons in May, decreasing by 4.2% from a month ago and falling by 3.5% year on year, according to data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance. In the first five months of this ...
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It's reported that Ukraine and China had launched the price war for the general use hot rolled plates with the prices reducing by US$60~US$70/ton in the past two months from the level of US$600/ton CFR for a time. The over production and ...
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Brazilian Iron and Steel Institute (IABr) recently indicated that 13 million tons of finished steel on the first half year of 2013 were consumed in Brazil, increasing by only 0.6% compared to the same period last year. Following two ...
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According to data, Taiwan imported around 16,233 tons of wire rods in June, slumping by 35.5% from a month ago. Among them, 15,520 tons were wire rods with diameters less than 14mm, falling by 36.6%; 713 tons were wire rods with diameters ...
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China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan is going to release its prices for steel wires and bars for September on July 19th. Although CSC already cut prices for July/August, many screw makers hope CSC could decrease ...
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It's reported that China's major steelmaker Hebei Steel estimated that its net profits would be at RMB39.34~RMB118 million for the first half of this year, slumping by 70%~90% from the net profits in the same period of a year ago. Hebei ...
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The arbitrage window for toluene from Asia to the US was open on paper Tuesday, the FOB US Gulf price assessed at 375 cents/gallon or $1,140/mt overnight, up 12 cents/gallon from Monday amid stronger demand. Meanwhile, FOB Korea toluene ...
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OPEC's share of the global oil market is set to diminish further next year as surging supplies of oil from the US and other non-OPEC producers outpaces an expected acceleration in world oil demand growth, the International Energy Agency ...
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Taiwan's export values of iron and steel and articles made from iron and steel totaled US$8.1 billion in the first half of this year, falling by 5.3% year on year, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. In the given period of time, the ...
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