China National Coal Group mined 176 million mt of coal in 2012, up 7.3% year on year, according to data released Tuesday on the China National Coal Association website. The company's coal sales, meanwhile, rose 9.5% year on year to ...
Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Zhangjiagang Yangtze Cold Rolling Co., a subsidiary of Shagang Group, has carried out a successful hot run test on its new continuous pickling line unit No. 1, which is part of its 1,420 mm cold ...
National news sources reported Wednesday that on Friday, Gerdau plans to lay off about 31 steel workers from its St. Paul, Minnesota steel mill that is currently undergoing a $50 million renovation. A company spokesman was quoted as saying ...
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Chinese phone maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartphone based on Mozilla's Firefox OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. That ZTE is planning to launch a phone based on the upcoming OS doesn't come as surprise; last ...
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Lenovo's CEO said sales of its Windows 8 PCs have been "normal", neither surpassing nor falling behind expectations, but added that PC-tablet convertible devices using the OS are helping the company break into the high-end segment for the ...
Lenovo's profit for its fiscal third quarter grew by 34% over last year, as the company also reported that its smartphone business in China had become profitable for the first time. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Lenovo's net profit ...
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A Taiwan delegtation formed by government officials, researchers and industry players recently concluded a six-day visit in Japan, where they probed the possibilities of forming strategic alliances between the two countries. According to ...
Polysilicon suppliers to the solar industry have been significantly lowering plant utilization rates during the past six months, with average quarterly utilization rates falling below 70%, according to NPD Solarbuzz. This contrasts with ...
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As the China government is likely to decide on anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs against polysilicon imported from makers in the US, Europe and South Korea, some polysilicon makers have had company executives visit China to talk with ...
(China Glass Network) The year of 2012 is the milestone of China LCD panel industry development with the great results from the investment on depressed market. Due to the overcapacity and depressed economy environment, global LCD panel ...
ORL is an Indian producer of special refractories and monolithics listed on the National Stock Exchange of India as well as the Bombay Stock Exchange. The selling shareholders that hold the largest stake of the 43.6% are the immediate ...
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GlassChem’s HECSt 1800 hot end coating system for high speed bottle production lines was introduced at the end of 2011. Subsequently, this equipment has been successfully brought into operation on a glass container Production line, ...
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Total Glass has completed a major window and door refurbishment for Riverside ECHG at a sheltered housing scheme for older people in a conservation area close to Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral. The Liverpool-based aluminium and PVC-U ...
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LANXESS is expanding its global production network for inorganic pigments in China. A new high-tech facility for premium iron oxide red pigments is being constructed at the Ningbo Chemical Park on the Chinese East Coast. The plant, with ...
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BASF Shanghai Coatings, a subsidiary of the German chemical company BASF, has started construction of a new automotive coatings plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China. Scheduled to start production in early 2014, the new ...
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