Sri Lanka's Piramal Glass said profits rose 5.6 percent to 724.3 million rupees in the year to March 2012 from a year earlier, exports were doing well, but warned against higher energy costs this year. The firm reported earnings of 76 ...
Tags: Piramal Glass, Construction
Abrisa Technologies, a leading supplier of high performance flat glass for the display industry can now screen print on 80 inch diagonal soda lime or low iron float glass for a wide variety of applications including digital signage, ...
Fort Wayne, Indiana-based steelmaker Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Friday two senior level management appointments. Robert (Rob) A. Simon has been appointed to the position of Vice President and General Manager of the company's ...
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Tenaris announced on May 3, 2013 that it will invest US$70 million to build a new sucker rods mill with a production capacity of 1,800,000 units per year, to reduce lead times and improve service for customers in the growing North American ...
The US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, reported that total March exports of $184.3 billion and imports of $223.1 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $38.8 billion, ...
Tags: Mineral, Trade Deficit
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday that US monthly rail traffic showed mixed results in April 2013. Intermodal traffic in April 2013 totaled 962,019 containers and trailers, up 1.6 percent (15,053 units) compared ...
According to the Mineral Industry Survey released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), US iron ore production in February this year was 3.9 million mt, falling 7.1 percent from the January level and down by 8.7 percent year on year. Iron ore ...
Tags: Iron Ore Output, Mineral
The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) registered 50.7 percent, a decrease of 0.6 percentage point from March's reading of 51.3 percent, but still indicating expansion in manufacturing for the fifth ...
Tags: US Manufacturing Activity, Mineral
France-based pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. According to Vallourec's report, in the first quarter this year the company registered a net profit of €35 million, ...
Tags: Vallourec, Improved Net Profit
US Steel has sent a letter to employees at its pickling operations in Nanticoke, Ontario telling workers to not interact with locked out picketers at the company's Lake Erie Works plant. The letter from US Steel, posted on the USW Local ...
Brazil's national statistics agency reported Friday that industrial output in the country increased 0.7 percent in March, following a 2.4 percent drop in February. Production was also down 3.3 percent from March 2012. After falling in ...
According with the last "Steel on figures" report from Mexico's National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO), at the beginning of 2013, the national economic environment has had some changes from the previous year-end, when the ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Mineral
Ontario-based Russel Metals reported Q12013 earnings of $22 million on revenues of $822 million. These results compare to the earnings of $33 million on revenues of $803 million in the same quarter last year and are above the Q4 2012 ...
Tags: Energy Segment, Russel Metals
Mexican National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO) reported that last year steel imports from countries without trade agreements grew 170 percent. In its recent report "Steel on figures," Canacero said that "So far in 2013, ...
Tags: Iron and Steel Industry, Mineral
Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending May 3, the US rig count increased by 10 to 1,764, following a four-rig drop a week ago. The rig count was still down 201 rigs from the same week a year ago. During the week, the oil rig ...