Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that in 2013 its Cherepovets Steel Mill produced 1,258,000 mt of long products,up 14 percent year on year,registering the highest production volume for five years.The company said that the increase ...
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Structural reforms and the start of infrastructure projects from the federal government will bring a boost in demand for steel in Mexico, said Verónica Orendain, manager of Heavy and High-Tech Industries of the Mexican Ministry of ...
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Mullen Group announced this week its board has approved its 2014 capital budget of $100 million, about $25 million of which will be allocated to its trucking/logistics segment. The funds will be used to buy new trucks, trailers and ...
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They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
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China’s wetlands have shrunk by nearly 9 percent in recent years, and the loss could continue if the government doesn't intervene. Officials from China's State Forestry Administration (SFA) told reporters on Monday that 340 000 square ...
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China's wetlands have shrinked nearly 9% since 2003 according to forestry officials. The country's food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages. China has more than 1/5 of the ...
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According to a report released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, the ‘Qatar Economic Outlook 2013 – 2014 Update’, Qatar has seen a 6.2% increase in GDP compared to 2012 due partly to an increase in ...
Tags: Qatar, economic outlook, construction activity, infrastructure projects
In December last year, the Markit/CIPS UK's construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) decreased slightly to 62.1 from November's reading of 62.6. The latest reading marked eight months of continuous output growth in the UK construction ...
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China's economic growth is likely to stand at 7.6 percent this year, slightly down from 7.7 percent in 2012, said a State Council report on Wednesday. Economic growth has been higher than expected since 2011 despite a declining trend, ...
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A series of roundtables on Canada’s transportation policies for the 21st century, held earlier this year, determined it is time for the country to develop a new approach to repairing, building and financing aging infrastructure. The ...
The Low & Medium Voltage Division of Siemens AG has developed a new gas-insulated medium-voltage switchgear, 8DJH Compact, for secondary distribution systems up to 24 kV. This type-tested switchgear, which conforms to IEC 62271-200, is ...
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The Toll Group has added to its capabilities in the over-dimensional and heavy haulage sector with the conditional acquisition of the business and assets of Nationwide Transport Solutions (NTS). NTS has annual revenues of $17 million, is ...
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Glass LLC, the first glass holding company in the Middle East and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Investments PJSC [DI], has announced that its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass LLC [EGL] and Saudi American Glass ...
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After a sharp downturn following the 2008 financial crisis, growth in coatings demand in the Gulf region of the Middle East is now surging forward again. This recovery was symbolized in late November by the announcement that Dubai, which ...
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US construction employers added 17,000 jobs in November as the sector's employment hit the highest level since August 2009, and the industry unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, according to an analysis of new government data by the ...