The Dow Chemical Company detailed the scope of a separation of a significant portion of its chlorine value chain. These assets are being carved out for future transactions, and represent up to $5 billion of total annual revenue, inclusive ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Vard Holdings Limited ("VARD"), one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, is pleased to announce that it has secured a new contract with Island Offshore for the construction of one advanced ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture partnership with Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) to acquire the Alabama-based steel processing plant ThyssenKrupp ...
Tags: steel, ArcelorMittal
Petrobras has acquired, alone or in partnership, 49 blocks, out of the 50 to which the company presented offers, in the 12th Bidding Round held today by the Brazilian National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP). Among the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
GeoPark Limited ("GeoPark"), the Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and production in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina (AIM: GPK), is pleased to announce that it has been awarded two new ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) (BOVESPA: PREB) is pleased to announce that today it closed the acquisition of Petrominerales Ltd. (TSX: PMG) (BVC: PMGC) ("Petrominerales") by way of a plan of arrangement (the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It is reported that Brazil’s steel imports are adjusted upward to total 3.8 million tons for the first ten months in year 2013, according to Brazil Steel Institute, as they saw the highest steel imports in October in three years. ...
Tags: steel, oversupply
It is reported that Brazil, on the top the Latin American countries, exported 368,977 tons of steel to the US in October, soaring by 56.4% year on year. In total, the US imported 617,123 tons of steel from Latin America in October, ...
Anfavea announced Thursday in Sao Paulo, the agricultural machinery and cars production is 289633 units in November in Brazil, fell 8% year on year. Since 2013, the Brazilian car production has more than the total of 2012. Annual ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto, truck
Smith & Nephew, a medical technology company, has agreed to acquire the assets and business of Politec Saude relating to Smith & Nephew’s Advanced Wound Management products in Brazil. In 2013 Smith & Nephew announced its intention ...
The global market for specialty films is projected to be worth $6.0 billion in 2013 and grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.0% until 2018, according to a brand new market report from Smithers Pira. The Future of Specialty Films: ...
Tags: global market, Packaging
Natural gas and renewables will power country's economic growth Natural gas and renewable energy are poised for boom times in China over the coming decades, and they'll be key factors in the development of the nation's economy, a global ...
Tags: Clean Energy, Energy
The Brazilian industry and foreign trade ministry's commerce chamber, Camex, has announced that it has launched an analysis of the antidumping (AD) duty on non-grain-oriented (NGO) electrical steel imports from South Korea, Taiwan and ...
Tags: Electrical Steel Imports, AD Duty
Brazil Steel Institute (IABr) has revised its forecast regarding the expected decline in Brazil's steel imports in 2013, from a drop of 14.4 percent to a fall of just 0.5 percent. Thus, Brazil's steel imports are expected to total 3.8 ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Mineral
Finished steel apparent use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 50 million tons in January-September this year, similar to the same period in 2012, according to Alacero, the Latin American steel association. Finished steel production ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Mineral