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 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron, Steel
ThyssenKrupp's Companhia Siderurgica do Atlantico (CSA) has a new president, the company announced this week. Walter Medeiros, who comes from ThyssenKrupp, assumed office last Sunday. He's taking the position of Jorge Luiz Riberio, who ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The electronic cigarette industry has become a booming industry . This innovative product is a hit with smokers, especially to those who want to quit . In the United States , the report released last month by the CDC (Centers for Disease ...
The government of the Indian state of Odisha has allowed operations to resume in eight iron ore mines in the state following its earlier decision to fast-track mining license renewals, according to media reports. The mines that will resume ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Tata Steel
Residents in Tangshan are very familiar with the concept of oversupply. A severe glut in the steel industry has put many jobs at risk in the northeastern Chinese city that counts the metal as one of its primary exports. But the oversupply ...
Tags: Housing Market, Crashing Down
Sweden-based special steel producer Ovako has announced that the commercial court of Nanterre in France has made a decision regarding the bid concerning the assets of French engineering steel producer Ascometal in favor of the French ...
Tags: Bankrupt Ascometal
The Chinese thermal coal market is seeing some positive fundamental trends in the near term, helped by coal investment cuts, production declines and a slowdown in imports, even as seasonal weakness is expected to weigh on the market, an ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Coal
China-based polysilicon maker Daqo New Energy has almost doubled its annual production capacity from 6,200 tonnes to 12,000 tonnes in an expansion project totaling US$22 million, and will invest another US$59 million to further expand ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Metallurgy, Mineral
Most of China-based polysilicon makers are disappointed with the punitive tariff rates their government is going to impose on polysilicon imports from the US, South Korea and Europe, because they think that such tariffs are insufficient to ...
Tags: based polysilicon, Electrical, Electronics
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd and Grocery Holdings Pty Ltd (together, Coles) alleging that Coles engaged ...
Tags: ACCC, Certification, Service, Logistics
China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings aims to increase its annual production capacity for solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers to 11.5GWp, according to China-based media reports. GCL-Poly produced about 9.0GWp of solar wafers in 2013, ...
UK onshore explorer Egdon Resources said Friday it could have 18 Tcf of gas initially in place in shale gas reserves in its licenses within the Bowland-Hodder shale sequence in northern England. That is equivalent to around 510 billion ...
Tags: shale gas, UK gas consumption
Chinese iron ore importers on Monday denied they were under pressure to sell their port stocks so that they repay their debts to the country's banks, refuting recent local media reports. The importers added that the price of the more than ...
Tags: Iron Ore, steel mills
Italian steel producer Lucchini is expected to shut down its blast furnace in Piombino on Wednesday, April 23, after trying to postpone the inevitable end by halting production on Friday, April 18 and using limited raw materials, according ...
Tags: steel producer, Blast Furnace
Yingli Green Energy Holding, a leading China-based PV module maker and PV system EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor, expects operations to swing from continual losses since the second quarter of 2011 to profitability in ...
Tags: Green Energy, Energy