Speaking at the International Steel Trade Day organized by STSG-Eurometal in Milan on April 4, Cesare Viganò, general manager of Italy-based CLN, presented his outlook for the steel market in 2013. The global steel industry has ...
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On April 5, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUK) released the domestic construction sector indicators for the fourth quarter of 2012. Accordingly, in the quarter in question, the production index in Turkey's domestic construction ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's rebar (including round bar) exports amounted to 660,466 metric tons, increasing by 19.4 percent compared to the previous month and ...
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According to the data provided by the state-owned Turkey Coal Institution (TTK), in the first quarter of this year TTK's coking coal production fell by 1.2 percent or 1,245 mt compared to the same quarter of the previous year, to 104,318 ...
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Russian pipemaker TMK has announced that its subsidiary US-based service company OFS International LLC has acquired a 100 percent stake in the pipe services and precision manufacturing assets of Scotland-based ITS Tubular Services ...
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Lisle, Illinois-based coke producer Suncoke Energy said Thursday that domestic coke production for Q1 2013 is expected to be 1.05 million tons, down from 1.07 million tons in Q1 2012. The year-over-year change reflects the benefit of an ...
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Murata has announced that European president Terry Churcher (pictured right) has been promoted to chairman, and Glenn Palmer (centre) takes over as president of Murata Europe. Palmer, who was director responsible for European distribution ...
ARM and Cadence have announced the first Cortex-A57 processor test chip fabricated on TSMC’s 16nm finfet manufacturing process technology. According to the companies, this test chip resulted in several optimisations between ...
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STMicroelectronics is leading the Lab4MEMS ENIAC project to develop a pilot line for next-generation MEMS devices augmented with advanced technologies such as piezoelectric or magnetic materials and 3D packaging. The project was launched ...
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Gallium nitride has been described as “the most important semiconductor since silicon” and is used in energy-saving LED lighting. A new £1million (or US$1,530,700) growth facility will allow University of Cambridge ...
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The 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) in Australia requiring mining companies to pay tax when their annual profits reach $75 million, a measure designed so as not to burden small businesses, raised only A$126 million in the ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that the Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of its Russian Steel division, has commissioned its new coke oven battery No. 7 following a reconstruction project which has received investment of about RUB ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order to supply Kazakhstan's Aktobe Rail and Section Works LLP with a rail and section mill. The new rolling mill with an annual capacity of ...
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The office of Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced that the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) will provide Turkey's Borusan Mannesmann Pipe $1.6 million to close the deal on the steelmaker's $148 million investment in a pipe mill in Baytown, ...
In March this year, China’s State Council issued its new regulatory policy on the domestic real estate market, indicating that local governments should issue specific policies based on the State Council’s regulations. As of ...
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