On March 5, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in February this year it produced 775,500 mt of pig iron, down 10.58 percent, 818,100 mt of crude steel, down 8.26 percent, and ...
Whilst UK GDP growth stalled in the last quarter of 2012, we have a record high in the number of jobs and ultra-low interest rates…hence we're not witnessing the huge job losses and brutal levels of home repossessions that the ...
Reportedly, India’s Bhushan Steel Ltd (BSL) has planned to set up electrical steel sheet plant with an annual production capacity of 350,000 tons at Meramandali, Dhenkanal, in the eastern state of Odisha. The beginning of ...
Tags: BSL plans, electrical sheet project, Steel, electrical steel
Reportedly, China’s Baosteel and Korean auto components maker GNS Automotive planned to launch new auto sheet plant located in Hwaseong city, south of Korea’s industrial hub of Incheon. Meanwhile, the two companies have already ...
Tags: China, Baosteel, Korea, GNS Automotive, JV
Mechel has announced the appointment of a new Managing Director of Izhstal OAO(Izhstal),part of Mechel Group. Mr Anatoly Shchetinin,55,who was appointed the new Managing Director of Izhstal OAO,replaces Mr Konstantin Kretov,who headed the ...
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Germany-based Heidelberg will install its Diana X 115 folding carton gluing machine at DS Smith Packaging Premium’s sheet plant in Cognac, France. According to Heidelberg, the new machine combines a collapsible box module with a ...
OCCG has operations in northern Mexico and the southern United States. OCCG employs 2,800 people (2,000 of whom are employed in Mexico), and is expected to generate $53m of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ...
Tags: OCCG, acquire, packaging, recycled containerboard mill
Aluminum rolling and recycling firm Novelis is planning to invest $100m to build a new automotive aluminum sheet manufacturing plant in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, China. Scheduled to start operations in late 2014, the new plant ...
Tags: aluminum rolling, automotive aluminum sheet, fuel-efficient vehicles