Da Shuhua is a 300-year-old tradition practiced during the lantern festival in Nuanquan town, Hebei province. It has been selected as the provincial cultural intangible heritage. Performers throw over 1,000 degree molten iron onto the cold ...
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International credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Brazil steelmaker Gerdau’s rating at BBB-, with a stable perspective, it said recently. The rating is based on Gerdau’s “position as the leading ...
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Casting is one of the oldest manufacturing processes in the world. It involves pouring a liquid material into a hollow mould, whereby the liquid solidifies. The solidification is the casting process. Once solidified, the object is then ...
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According to report, Egypt's biggest steelmaker, Ezz Steel, said it sees its profits to rise in 2014 on new facilities which help to cut production costs. It is expected the new way of production will come with annual capacity of 1.8 ...
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On Tuesday, West Chester, Ohio-based flat rolled steelmaker AK Steel reported a net loss of $230.4 million for Q4, following a $60.9 million net loss in Q3 and a $193.9 million loss in Q4 2011. This was AK Steel's sixth consecutive ...
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Iran has decided to keep its export ban on polymers like acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, general purpose polystyrene, high impact polystyrene, polypropylene, polycarbonates and epoxy resins despite having lifted a ban on exports of other ...
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A quick scan around the recycling yard in South Amboy, NJ, tells you that Clyde Cameron is a value-conscious equipment buyer. Here, at one of the two Beacon Scrap Iron & Metal facilities south of Newark, NJ, the fleet covers a wide mix ...
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