A to extend the right to request euthanasia to children suffering fatal illnesses cleared a committee in the Belgian Senate. Senate spokesman Patrick Peremans said the panel voted 13-4 on the bill to allow minors and to adults with ...
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YC Inox, one of the major stainless steel flat service centers and also the welded pipe makers in Taiwan said that its welded pipe monthly output will rise by 1,000 tons to 9,000 ~10,000 tons per month in the first quarter of next year. ...
The number of 4G-LTE mobile connections worldwide is forecast to pass one billion by 2017, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of GSMA, the international trade body for mobile operators. By 2017, it is expected ...
Several opportunities are predicted to emerge in the coming months as more data is generated by machines or things other than human beings. Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific says that 2014 will see more IT buyers and sellers focused on the ...
Tags: Internet of Things, IT, IoT
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports increased last week, according to Tuesday's Xinhua-China iron ore index report. At the end of the Nov. 19 to Nov. 25 period, inventories of imported iron ore in ports stood at 81.11 million ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The LED market for 2014 will see continued growth for the general lighting market and supply shortage of LED chips due to increasing demands from the LED lighting market, according to a recent report from UBS. In the report, the financial ...
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The Canadian sawmill group Canfor is poised to end production at its sawmill in Quesnel, British Columbia in March 2014. Canfor said that this decision was connected to very limited roundwood availability in the Quesnel region as a result ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Canfor saw its positive performance compared with last year continue in the third quarter as well. The Lumber business again fared much better than the Pulp and Paper division, as it had in previous quarters. Altogether the group raised its ...
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Prices for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers have risen to US$0.94/wafer due to tight supply, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) has cited Taiwan-based maker Gigastorage as indicating. Gigastorage has received orders ...
Tags: Solar-Grade Silicon, Energy
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first nine months of the current year Turkey's wire rod exports amounted to 697,211 mt, decreasing 16.73 percent, while the revenue of these exports fell to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Wire Rod
On November 21, Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group (HBIS) announced that in October this year its subsidiary Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. (Tangshan Steel) produced 212,400 mt of cold rolled products, while its ...
Tags: Steel, Cold Rolled Product, Metallurgy, Mineral
In the January-October period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China (from a total of 80 shipbuilding enterprises) amounted to 34.80 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 25.4 percent year on year, according to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the first 10 months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 973.94 million mt, rising by 4.25 percent compared to the same period of 2012, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
Tags: Iron, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 82 percent of total world DRI production in 2012 amounted to 5.29 ...
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In the January-October period of the current year, Kazakhstan produced 2.830 million mt of crude steel, down 14.7 percent year on year, according to the State Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan. Production of flat steel in Kazakhstan in ...
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