Research commissioned by ABB Group, the power and automation technology company headquartered in Switzerland, confirms that energy efficiency remains a high priority for industrial executives. Of more than 300 in manufacturing and power ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.25, up 1 cent Mar. soybeans closed at $12.80 and 1/2, down 36 cents Mar. soybean meal closed at $416.50, down $18.00 Mar. soybean oil closed at 38.10, up 36 points Mar. ...
Tags: Soybean, Joplin Regional Stockyards, Iowa/Minnesota, cattle trade
In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
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The price of imported nickel ore in China could jump more than 50%, following Indonesia's export ban on the product which took effect January 12, Macquarie Commodities Research said in a report Tuesday. Nickel ore stocks in China are ...
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Soybeans were steady to firm on late fund and technical buying. The near term supply remains tight and demand continues to look strong, especially from China, even if there is continued talk that they'll eventually cancel on some purchases. ...
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Monday's Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.34 and 1/2, up 1 and 3/4 cents Jan. soybeans clocsed at $13.26 and 3/4, up 23 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $446.90, up $11.70 Jan. soybean oil closed at 37.57, ...
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Cargill, an American agribusiness giant, has bought a 5% stake in Ukrlandfarming (ULF), an Ukrainian integrated agricultural firm, for an undisclosed sum. The move comes as the parties seek to enhance and develop their relationship to ...
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U.S. oilseed production for 2013/14 is estimated at 97.3 million tons, up 0.9 milliontons from last month. Larger crops for soybeans, cottonseed, and peanuts are partly offset by reductions for sunflowerseed and canola. Soybean production ...
In 2013, Ukraine-based Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, saw a 2.6 percent decrease in its crude steel production to 4.5 million mt, a one percent rise in its finished steel ...
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In December last year, Ukraine-based steel mill Donetskstal Metallurgical Plant (DMZ) produced 122,000 mt of pig iron and 3,500 mt of rolled steel products, according to the company's preliminary results. In the whole of 2013, DMZ saw a ...
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Mexico's Secretary of Economy published Wednesday in the Mexican Official Journal of the Federation (DOF) the final resolution of research on avoidance of allowance payments on imports of steel plate carbon sheet originating in the Russian ...
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), plans to decrease its production in the current month of January. In particular, DMKD plans to ...
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Regal Petroleum plc (AIM: RPT), the AIM-listed oil and gas exploration and production group, is pleased to announce an update of operational activities at its 100% owned and operated Mekhediviska-Golotvshinska (MEX-GOL) and Svyrydivske (SV) ...
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Based on information from China's official news agency, it appears the Chinese continued to reject cargoes of U.S. corn in late December because they contained the unapproved genetically modified MIR 162 corn trait. And Chinese traders ...
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In 2013, Ukraine registered an unchanged finished steel product output compared to 2012 at the level of 29.038 million mt, a one percent increase in its crude steel output to 32.684 million mt, and a two percent rise in its pig iron ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy