In the first quarter this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 0.42 percent on year-on-year basis to 1.63 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 55 percent of shipments ...
Brazil's motor vehicle output in April this year increased by 1.6 percent from the previous month and fell by 21.4 percent year on year to 277,091 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...
Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
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Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. is awarding gift cards for gasoline in a Facebook contest. The Toyo Tires Gives You a Lift Sweepstakes runs May 12-26, 2014, on facebook.com/toyotires. The company says fans can enter for a chance to win gift ...
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The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has added San Francisco and Pittsburgh to its 2014 Certified Automotive Training Service (ATS) Instructor Training Tour. The latest tour dates and locations are: July 8-11, Skyline College, 3300 ...
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Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has stated that it has mastered reinforcing bar production from At800 steel grade. According to the company's statement, such bars are characterized by high strength, ...
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Exports of Russian acetone dropped to just 2,666 mt in March after the explosion at the Omsk acetone plant forced other Russian producers to shift their focus to the domestic market, the latest data published by the Federal Customs Service ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has joined a new consortium to establish a pan-European supply chain capability for the high-volume production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for ...
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Bangladesh will ink an initial agreement in end-May with the US consortium comprising Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy for building the country's first LNG import terminal at Moheshkhali Island, a senior Petrobangla official said Friday. ...
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According to a study form Lux Research, investment and growth in bio-based material and chemical capacity continues to increase globally. Aggregating 229 sites from 217 companies that are planned, operating, or have been shuttered between ...
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Dr. Thimo Lothert from Axalta Coating Systems spoke at the Car Body Coating Intensive 2014 conference, in Leipzig, Germany. He presented insights into the challenges and complexities associated with plastic coatings in the automotive ...
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Marketsandmarkets report, "Acrylic Resins Market by Raw Material (Acrylates, Methacrylates, Hybrids and Others), by Solvency, by Property (Thermoplastics and Thermosetting) & by Application (Paints & Coatings, Construction, Industrial & ...
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Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy plans to merge with PV module maker Apollo Solar Energy, a subsidiary solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), while GET plans to merge with fellow maker Utech Solar, a Gintech ...
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Most of China-based polysilicon makers are disappointed with the punitive tariff rates their government is going to impose on polysilicon imports from the US, South Korea and Europe, because they think that such tariffs are insufficient to ...
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China's gold output edged up 1.6% year on year to 33.33 mt in March, and jumped 7.3% year on year in the first quarter of 2014 to 96.50 mt, China Gold Association data showed. The March output was 13.3% higher than that produced in ...
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