Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) launched trading of hot rolled coil (HRC) futures contracts today, March 21, offering another hedging tool for steelmakers amid growing price volatility. The most traded HRC contract for October delivery ...
MEI Wet Processing Systems and Services (a subsidiary of MEI LLC) of Albany, OR, USA has launched the FluidJet batch wet processing system for metal lift-off in MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) and compound semiconductor manufacturing, ...
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Starting Monday the value of the renminbi will be allowed to fluctuate 2% above or below a daily reference rate set by the People’s Bank of China. Widening the band, which had a 1% range in both directions since April 2012, was a ...
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According to a report in Forbes Wednesday, Vale might have to forfeit $1 billion in investments at the Simandou iron ore deposit in Guinea if the Guinean government accepts the recommendations of a committee set up to review mining ...
Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has stated that up to August of the current year it will supply 50,000 mt of oil and gas pipeline pipes for application in the V. Filanovsky oil and gas deposit ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Pipes, steel pipe
Catalog Features New Tools, Instruments and Line Expansions New York, NY (March 13, 2014) – The General Tools & Instruments 2014 full-line tools and instruments catalog is now available in traditional print format, digital format, or ...
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People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
Tags: energy in wastewater, reduced energy costs, wastewater reuse
(Phys.org) —To say that the Joris Laarman Lab is an innovative type of group is putting it mildly. The Amsterdam place is described as "an experimental playground set up to study and shape the future. It tinkers with craftsmen, ...
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The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have co-developed inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer part ...
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Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui) have announced that Robe River Iron Associates, the joint venture company formed by Australian miner Rio Tinto, Mitsui and NSSMC, will invest in ...
Tags: Iron Ore Mine, Mineral
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday its final results in the administrative review of the antidumping order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico. The review originally covered three Mexican ...
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Commission encourages Chinese steelmakers to boost global footprint Chinese steelmakers that have lost money because of volatile global iron ore prices should invest more in foreign mineral resources to gain greater pricing power, the ...
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Furniture builder System 180 cooperated with Potsdam School of Design Thinking to develop a functionally and formally independent programme specifically for creative teamwork. The Design Thinking-Line (DT-Line), named after the renowned ...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce has made a final determination that Malaysian innersprings producer Reztec Inds. Sdn Bhd has been circumventing an antidumping order that places duties on Chinese-made uncovered ...
Tags: innersprings units, DOC, Leggett&Platt, merchandise
T-Mobile entered the banking business with a MobileMoney service that provides banking services for subscribers on qualifying rate plans. Mobile Money is positioned as an affordable alternative to checking fees for about 68 million adults ...
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