The FDA appears to be issuing another Class I designation involving Abbott Laboratories' voluntary recall of diabetes products. Back in January, the FDA said FreeStyle and FreeStyle Lite test strips could cause serious injury or death ...
The US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced its final affirmative decision regarding the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat rolled steel products from Japan. Accordingly, the ...
Organic claims are appearing less on American restaurant menus Restaurants in the US have shifted their business practices to introduce a greater number and wider variety of claims that reflect trending food concerns, according to global ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Indian miner Vedanta Resources has announced that in the January-March period this year it produced 1.5 million mt of iron ore, after resuming mining operations in the Indian state of Karnataka on December 28, following clearance from the ...
Tags: Vedanta Resources, mining
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) expects apparent steel consumption in the US to deliver a return to growth and recovery in 2014-2015, after a decrease of 0.6 percent in 2013, according to its short range outlook. Worldsteel ...
According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in the MENA region, steel demand is expected to grow by 6.1 percent to 66.7 million mt in 2014 after a 0.9 percent increase in 2013. Worldsteel pointed out ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Mena Region
G.S. Sareen, CEO and president of Omni United Pte. Ltd., received Prestige Singapore's "100 Most Influential Power List 2014" recognition in itsPrestige Lifestyle 2014 issue. The list, which is an annual compilation of the top 100 ...
Tags: Auto Parts
France's manufacturing output in February this year increased by 0.3 percent month on month, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). In February, France's production ...
Tags: Metal Industry, basic metals
Gourmet Garden's new Lightly Dried Herbs Australian herb company Gourmet Garden has launched a new Lightly Dried Herb range, made with Australian organically grow herbs that have been washed, roughly chopped and lightly dried. According ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Herb
Brazil-based Gerdau Group has announced that it has presented a preliminary proposal for the acquisition of the French special steel producer Ascometal for €41.5 million. Ascometal has three steel plants located in Hagondange, Les ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 2.078 million mt of iron ore concentrate in the January-March period of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Concentrate Output, Steel
In February of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.72 million metric tons, up 1.32 percent compared to February 2013, according to the data released by the ...
Tags: Steel Product, specialty steels
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it will replace the blast furnace oil injection system at its Raahe steel plant with a new pulverized coal injection (PCI) system to improve steelmaking cost efficiency by reducing raw ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in February this year South Africa's manufacturing output rose by 1.4 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the increase included the ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Output
In March this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports decreased by 0.9 percent year on year and increased by 28.6 percent compared to February to $1.63 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry ...