Russian coking coal producer Raspadskaya lost a net $126 million in 2013, quadrupled from a net loss of $29.5 million a year ago, as its share of exports in its overall sales volumes grew to 42% due to weaker domestic demand, Raspadskaya ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Miner, integrated mining
South Korea's imports of Iranian crude oil in February more than doubled to 8.140 million barrels, or 290,714 b/d, compared with 3.974 million barrels a year earlier, data released Tuesday by state-run Korea National Oil Corp. showed. ...
There is uneasiness that, following the release of China’s cotton policy, there will be pressure from Chinese buyers on Indian spinners to further reduce prices. In recent months, Chinese buyers have already lowered yarn buying ...
Gordmans Stores, Inc., an Omaha-based apparel and home décor retailer, announced results for its fourth quarter (thirteen weeks) and fiscal year (fifty-two weeks) ended February 1, 2014. Fourth Quarter Highlights -Net sales ...
Tags: apparel, home décor, Gordmans Stores
January aluminum demand in the US and Canada -- measured as shipments by domestic producers plus imports -- totaled an estimated 2.018 billion lb, down 2.9% from January 2013, according to preliminary estimates from the Aluminum ...
Tags: semi-fabricated, aluminum, aluminum ingot
The Philippines' Nickel Asia said Monday it shipped out a record high 14 million wet mt of nickel ore in 2013, up 19% from 2012. Of the total volume, 3.59 million wmt was saprolite ore, down 15.3% year on year, while 10.41 million wmt was ...
Tags: Nickel Ore, Nickel, nickel price
In 2013, sales of cigarettes rose 0.3% to figure of 21.1bn cigarettes, according to industry data provided by Marlboro maker Philip Morris International and reported in today’s Telegraph. The increase follows four straight years of ...
The turnover of the Spanish textile industry registered a decline of 3.1 percent in the month of January 2014, compared to the same month in 2013, as per the Industrial Turnover Indices (ITI) data released by the National Statistics ...
Researchers from Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have successfully simulated near real-scale flow structures (turbulence) around a tire rolling on a road surface -- and the acoustic waves (noise) ...
Tags: Tire Noise, Yokohama, Rubber
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in January this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) increased ...
UK-based iron ore mining-focused investment company International Mining & Infrastructure Corporation (IMIC) has announced its plans to accelerate to development of its Ntem iron ore project in Cameroon.Since its acquisition of Afferro ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Mineral, Metallurgy
UK-based iron ore mining-focused investment company International Mining & Infrastructure Corporation (IMIC) has announced its plans to accelerate to development of its Ntem iron ore project in Cameroon. Since its acquisition of Afferro ...
The US extended the delivery window on its sale Friday of 5 million barrels of Strategic Petroleum Reserve sour crude to May 10 from the original April 1-30, according to an amendment to the sale posted on the SPR website. A second ...
Tags: imported oil, SPR crude
The spread between the spot prices for acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer in Europe surged to an all-time high of Eur1,040/mt ($1,444/mt) Thursday, as VAM prices soared and feedstock AA prices remained stable. In December last year, the ...
According to the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in January this year increased by 22.8 percent year on year and was up 7.2 percent month on month, following the 17.3 percent year-on-year ...
Tags: Metals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy