Brazilian ethanol exports reached 137.4 million liters (36.3 million gallons) in April, up 77% from 77.7 million liters in March and up 33% from 103.3 million liters the same month last year, according to the latest data from the ...
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Steel is still expected to remain the main material of choice for carmakers, as shifting to aluminium is a costly process and Asian markets are unlikely to be open to taking on these costs, according to a report published Friday by ...
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Since the beginning of April when the Chinese government announced a lower starting auction price, the pace of sales from China’s reserve increased and the Type 328 China Cotton Index (a daily index of prices for domestic cotton ...
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Honeywell announced a major enhancement to its Refinery and Petrochemical Modeling System (RPMS) that will improve model building and maintenance, case management, and optimization to help plants maximize profitability. The new release, ...
Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 16 percent year on year to 149,000 mt in the first quarter this year. In the given ...
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Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) successfully completed the reconstruction in one of their blast furnaces this week, with an investment of US$7.6 million. The project interconnects the systems hot and cold air, gas collection and ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of prestressed concrete steel rail tie wire (PC tie wire) from the People’s Republic of ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in the first quarter of this year the value of Turkey's iron and steel imports decreased ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in March this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased by 30.1 percent to $5.20 ...
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In March this year, Japan's industrial production increased by 0.3 percent from February and rose by seven percent from March 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
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According to the data provided by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), in March this year Japanese automobile production (including passenger cars, trucks and buses) totaled 939,761 units, increasing by 115,647 units or ...
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Local news outlets reported Tuesday that a fire broke out Monday night at AK Steel’s Middletown, Ohio mill. Authorities believe the fire started with oil in a storage tanker, but the cause is still under investigation. One employee ...
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Indian miner Sesa Sterlite has announced its financial results for the full financial year 2013-14 ended March 31, reporting a net profit of INR 123.5 billion ($2.05 billion), down 15.5 percent compared to the previous financial year. In ...
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Australia-based miner Rio Tinto has announced that it has filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Brazil-based miner Vale and BSG Resources Limited regarding mining concessions in Guinea. ...
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In the first quarter this year, Turkey's finished steel output increased by 2.9 percent to 8.74 million metric tons, despite the 0.5 percent decrease in the country's crude steel output in the given period to 8.43 million metric tons, both ...
Tags: Finished Steel, long products