US raw steel production edged up last week, as the industry's capability utilization rose to 77%, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. The 77% capability utilization during the week ended Saturday, February 15, was up from ...
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According to a report Thursday from the Lake Carriers’ Association, coal shipments on the US Great Lakes totaled 373,000 tons in January. While the total represents an increase of 62 percent compared to a year ago, January 2013 was ...
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Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
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Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 2 million tons in January, a decrease of 37 percent compared to a year ago, according to a report Tuesday from the Lake Carriers' Association.? The decrease was entirely the result of the ...
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US raw steel production climbed 1.9% last week on robust growth in Southern steel output, American Iron and Steel Institute data published Monday showed. In the week ended Saturday, US mills produced 1.839 million st, up 1.9% from the ...
According to a report from the Lake Carriers’ Association, shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 24.6 million tons in 2013, a decrease of 2.8 percent compared to 2012. Some of the decrease can be attributed to the early onset ...
In the week ending January 18, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,836,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.6 percent. Production was 1,832,000 net tons in the week ending January 18, 2013, while the capability ...
As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside the gadgets to fail. Conventional wisdom ...
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According to a report from the Lake Carriers’ Association, shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 58.3 million tons in 2013, a decrease of 5.3 percent from 2012. While the trade had been slightly behind 2012’s pace ...
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Using a plant-derived chemical, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a process for creating a concentrated stream of sugars that's ripe with possibility for biofuels. "With the sugar platform, you have ...
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US Coast Guard officials confirmed that a Great Lakes freighter hauling iron ore to US Steel's Gary Works mill rear-ended a US Coast Guard ice-breaker on that was cutting a path through the frozen surface of Lake Michigan on Sunday. No ...
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The Canadian Shipowners Association (CSA) has formally sought a legal review in the United States of the implementation dates found in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Vessel General Permit (VGP). The VGP imposes requirements ...
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Much of the country is under the grip of the one of the coldest air masses in nearly 20 years. Temperatures have dropped to freezing as far south as the central and northern Gulf Coast with areas as far south as central and southern Texas ...
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The realisation was as surprising as it was momentous. Toledo, long known as Glass City, needed glass, and it could no longer be manufactured locally quickly enough. So Toledo turned to China to make the 360 panels, weighing 589kg each, ...
November coal traffic on the Great Lakes totaled 2,675,065 short tons, down 4.1% from October and down 7.3% from a year ago, according to data from the Lake Carriers' Association. Year-to-date coal shipments on the lakes total 22.4 ...
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