In 2012, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments decreased by six percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 11.17 million metric tons, following the three percent year-on-year decrease recorded in 2011. 72 percent of shipments were ...
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After the 2013 NASPD Annual Conference's kickoff cocktail reception in Las Vegas on February 21, 2013, the nearly 500 attendees got down to the business of making sense of the pipe market during the general session Friday morning. ...
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Toronto-listed miner Northland Resources has announced that its first iron ore shipment left the Port of Narvik, Stockholm, Sweden on February 25. Northland's first shipment of approximately 55,000 mt of high grade iron ore concentrate ...
Mercedes-Benz performance division AMG has outlined a strategy to achieve 30,000 global sales by 2017, “especially through all-wheel drive [products]“. The plan, called ‘AMG Performance 50’ to commemorate the ...
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According to Mexico's National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO), Mexico reached 18.1 million tons of steel production at the end of 2012--a largely unchanged total compared to 2011. Steel consumption grew from 21.2 million ...
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The German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW) has projected year-on-year growth of one percent for the current year for production in the German machine tool industry, following two years of substantial growth. "This means the sector ...
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AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrate and raw materials, has announced a program authorizing the repurchase of up to $6m of the firm's common stock through 27 February 2014. ...
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Turnover in the French furniture sector has shown decline by 3% to €9.54bn last year, after two years of growth. In this vein, 2012 has developed along similar lines as the crisis year of 2009. The furniture trade association FNAEM, ...
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US hardwood lumber exports rose by a total of 11% last year to 3.111m m3. According to information from the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) US hardwood lumber suppliers managed to raise their deliveries above the previous year’s ...
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The one-off Aston Martin Rapide Bertone Jet 2+2 has broken cover ahead of its unveiling at next month’s 2013 Geneva motor show. The unique Aston Martin Rapide-based shooting brake was commissioned by an Aston Martin collector on the ...
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Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland, a manufacturer of fiber-optic solutions and optical transceivers, has appointed Weikang Jiang to the newly created role of director of Sales and Marketing for the Greater China region, operating out of the ...
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Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced the availability of a family of 1700V and 1200V SiC junction transistors: three 1700V devices (the 110mΩ GA04JT17-247, ...
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The interior of the Alfa Romeo 4C has been revealed ahead of the car’s upcoming Geneva motor show unveiling, with the Italian manufacturer releasing a series of new images. While several new exterior shots show more angles of the ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
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The Proton Preve has been awarded a five-star ANCAP safety rating, making it the Malaysian manufacturer’s first model to earn top marks from the independent crash tester. The small-sized Proton Preve sedan scored 34.25 points out of ...