According to the report released by Argentina's steel chamber, in September this year the country's crude steel production was down 3.4 percent month on month and increased by 16.8 percent year on year, amounting to 462,600 metric tons. ...
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Atlantic Coal, a UK-headquartered coal production and processing company, has announced that it has entered into a joint venture and coal sale agreement with China-based CIC Brancepeth Coal Limited (CIC-Coal), a company founded and ...
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Lower feedstock prices can drive down prices of fermentable cellulosic sugar to USD 0.26/kg, down from USD 0.32/kg to USD 0.36/kg, competitive with sugars from corn or sugarcane, according to Lux Research. This advance would allow bio-based ...
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What's the biggest hurdle for a technological revolution in China's water desalination sector? It's certainly not a lack of potential market. In a country where water shortages have already crippled economic development, processing ...
Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced the launch of steel billet sales, produced by Interpipe Steel electric steel-melting complex. The steel billet mill, commissioned in 2012, produces round continuously ...
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Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Wednesday third quarter net income of $57 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.9 billion, compared to Q3 2012 net income of$13 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.7 ...
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., the leading developer of advanced spider silk based fibers, announced the launching of the Company’s commercial production program with the recent hatching of its first batch of Monster Silk ...
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Keyuan Petrochemicals Inc., an independent manufacturer and supplier of various petrochemical products in China, announced the Company's financial results for the quarter ended June 30th, 2013. "Although our sales volume was negatively ...
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China said Monday that consumers will need to bear some of the costs of tighter fuel standards, opening the door to higher prices at fuel pumps as the nation balances growing public concern over the environment with worries about inflation. ...
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DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective Oct. 1, 2013, or as contracts allow, as ...
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The Ministry of Land and Resources announced on Thursday the maximum amount of rare earths for the exploration has been set at 93,800 metric tons for 2013. The cap for the exploration of ion-absorbed-type rare earth ores is set at 17,900 ...
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Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, will increase list and off-list selling prices for Vinyl Acetate Monomer in Europe by EUR 20 per metric ton effective immediately, or as contracts allow. This ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has released the fourth quarter 2013 reference prices for hot-rolled steel flat products pursuant to the suspension agreement with Russia. The reference prices for the fourth quarter of 2013 (October 1 ...
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On August 14, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced that in the first seven months this year its costs for purchases of steelmaking raw materials indicated an 11.92 percent ...
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Major players in Indonesia's cement industry have each posted solid growth in revenue in the first half of the year on the back of solid demand for the building material, but that has not translated into profitable results for all of them. ...
Tags: Cement, Construction