Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 rebounded Tuesday, mainly on higher primary aluminum ingot prices despite no significant change in physical buying interest during the current summer lull, industry sources said. ...
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Spot export offers for Chinese magnesium ingot on a FOB basis tracked steady domestic prices, while the overseas physical buying interest has remained lacking, industry sources said Thursday. Most spot offers on a FOB basis were heard ...
In order to sustain the employment of people working in the textile and apparel industries in Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Association of Textile and Apparel (Anitec) is ardently attempting to attract new investors, according to an El Nuevo ...
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Taxes on Brazil steel products have been adding costs to the competitiveness of the country’s industry, an executive said recently. Citing a comment from Sergio Leite, vice-president for sales at Usiminas, a media report said high ...
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Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net loss of EGP 19 million ($2.65 million), compared to a net profit of EGP 202 million in the first quarter of ...
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As the US Department of Commerce will decide on preliminary anti-dumping tariffs on PV products imported from China and Taiwan on July 24, Taiwan-based PV module makers using in-house-produced solar cells can tolerate rates of 15-20% to ...
Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has reported that it is investing a total of RUB 2.9 billion ($80,4 million) in the technical revamping program for Mechel Mining OAO's production facilities. Investment in program ...
(New York, N.Y.) Nathaniel Wight, a science teacher at Bronx Design & Construction Academy in the South Bronx, New York, and Luke Colley, a high school senior from Tarrytown, New York both won top presidential honors for their dedication to ...
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Ms. Lorena Ruiz, the new economist of the ICAC Secretariat took up her duties from July 21, 2014. She is the seventh to serve in the position of Economist in the history of the Secretariat following Mr. T.S. Robertson, 1947-1951; Mr. J.C. ...
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The NY cotton futures market was down 394 points for the week from Monday's 72.06 open to Friday's settle at 68.12. Without a doubt the USDA WASDE report was bearish and the market took a quick dive once the report was released. They ...
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In the second quarter of 2014 ending June 30, 2014, NYSE-listed Kronos Worldwide, Inc. a global manufacturer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) posted a positive net income, when compared with a net loss in the corresponding period of 2013. ...
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Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) is to issue 174.612 million new shares (worth NT$10 each, totalling NT$1746.12m) to acquire fellow Taiwanese LED epiwafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors can pack up to 20 blue laser chips in the new PLPM4 450 module. Instead of taking the laborious approach and constructing a light source from individual laser diodes, it is now possible to reduce the complexity of ...
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iLLuminite is a collection of decorative night lights by SturlesiDesign inspired by the search for a more unique and original approach to night lights and ambient lights. After opening a small studio in Tel Aviv in 2009, designer Amit ...
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South Korean steelmaker POSCO and China-based Chongqing Iron & Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding for a $3.3 billion investment in China, according to media reports. The agreement will cover POSCO's own steelmaking technology ...
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