Saudi cement firms, Yanbu Cement Co and Saudi Cement Co, have both announced positive results for the second quarter of 2013. Yanbu posted a 26.9% increase in net profit for the period to $73.1m (SAR 274m), up from last year's ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
Recently, the University of Arizona and Flexible Electronics and Displays Center (FEDC) successfully produced the world's largest OLED color flexible display prototype with mixed oxide thin film transistor (TFT). The display is jointly ...
Tags: OLED Color Flexible Display, LED
Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) has announced that a successful hot run test has been carried out at Chinese steelmaker Rizhao Steel's high-speed wire rod production line No. 1 in Yingkou in Liaoning ...
Tags: Mineral, Steel, Metallurgical Group
As AIM, the industry association and worldwide authority on barcode, RFID, RTLS and mobile computing, celebrates its 40th anniversary year, AIM’s Board of Directors recently emphasized their commitment to the continued growth of the ...
Taranto-based Italian steel producer Ilva is progressively restarting its finished steel production operations following recent favorable court decisions, having almost completely shut down its finished steel operations in late 2012. ...
Tags: Finished Steel Production, Mineral
A PET line at a plant operated by South Korea-based KP Chemical is currently off-stream. “Line no-2 of the PET plant located in Ulsan has been shutdown due to technical reasons and is under maintenance since March 7, ...
Tags: KP Chemical, PET line, fibre
Taiwan-based Formosa Chemical and Fibre Corp (FCFC) plans to undertake maintenance turnaround at its line No.1 of its aromatics plant in March 2013. “The line No.1 of our aromatics plant will undergo a scheduled maintenance ...
Tags: aromatics plant, Chemical, Fibre
Brazil-based ArcelorMittal Vega, part of the global steel giant ArcelorMittal, has announced that it has completed a $10 million investment to install new post-treatment technology on its galvanizing line No. 1. The new technology ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
On March 22, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that its rail and beam plant has supplied its first 60 kg/m steel rails from its rolling line No. 2, delivering a total of 2,447 mt of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel, Iron
Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp. (Wisco), a Hubei Province based leading Chinese steel and iron group has used 200mm x 200mm continuous casting large billets to produce nearly 90,000 tons of enhanced strength HRB400 rebar, accounting for almost ...
Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that the construction of the China Guangfa Bank (CGB) building in Wuhan city has used over 10,000 mt of high-strength HRB 400 rebar produced by ...
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Korea based Tongsuh Petrochemical is likely to start a new Acrylonitrile (ACN) line very soon at Ulsan. “The start-up of the new line is completely based on the ACN market. Due to poor market conditions, the company has not yet ...
Tags: Tongsuh Petrochemical, ACN line, Ulsan
Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has stated that it has stopped its HDG line No. 1 due to repair works and unfavourable market conditions. The ...
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Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) has announced that its rail and beam plant has completed production of 1,080 mt of 60kg/m2 steel rails at its rolled steel production line No.2, with the ...
Tags: Baogang, beam plant, Steel
Shagang Group, a Jiangsu Province and also the Largest Private Steel Enterprise in China has commissioned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) to build new continuous pickling line No.1 & No.2 for expansion. These two units of new ...