Indian steelmaker Tata Steel has announced its sales results for the second quarter and the first half ended September 30 of the financial year 2013-14. The total domestic sales of Tata Steel in the second quarter increased by 18 percent to ...
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Shanxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co. (TISCO) has announced that in the January-August period this year its overall investments in major projects in Shanxi amounted to RMB 7.822 billion ($1.28 billion), ...
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We've all heard of the rise of showrooming, but a new holiday shopping survey by Accenture says "webrooming" will actually be more popular this holiday season. Showrooming is the consumer practice of shopping competitors for comparisons ...
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Russian pipe producer TMK has announced that it has fully completed in line with its contract the delivery of large diameter pipes for the Central Asia-China gas pipeline project. Within the framework of its contract, in the ...
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Turkey-based MMK Metalurji, a subsidiary of Russian steelmaker MMK, has announced that during the first nine months of the current year its domestic galvanized steel sheet sales increased by 33 percent, while its domestic color coated steel ...
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Luxembourg-based global steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that it is investing €92 million in a complete revamp of the blast furnace No. 2 at its Dunkirk plant in France. The Dunkirk plant's slab output capacity will remain at 7 ...
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During the SteelOrbis Fall 2013 Conference & 69th IREPAS Meeting held in Istanbul on September 22-24, Kim Marti from Celsa defined the role of IREPAS as its new chairman and evaluated the market situation.
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Scott Humphrey, chief executive officer of the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA), announced today the completion of another successful national consumer media tour. Humphrey and other WFCA executives traveled to the media capitals of ...
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According to the figures released by China's Ministry of Transport, in August this year the total volume of cargo shipments in China (by rail, road and water transport) amounted to 3.83 billion mt, up 10.5 percent, while in the first eight ...
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Chinese steel producer Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co. has announced that in September this year its subsidiary Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Chongqing Steel) produced 429,700 mt of finished steel, up 42 percent year on year. In the ...
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In August this year, the seasonally and working-day adjusted turnover in the German manufacturing industry increased by 2.3 percent compared to the previous month, according to the preliminary data reported by Germany's Federal Statistical ...
In September this year, new passenger car registrations in the German market contracted by one percent year on year to 247,200 units, and were up 15.4 percent compared to August, according to the data released by the German Association of ...
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In September this year, Germany's crude steel output registered year-on-year growth for the first time in the last seven months, amounting to 3.6 million metric tons, up 1.4 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according ...
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As of October 7, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 73.27 million mt, indicating an decrease of just 58,000 mt or 0.08 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the given date, the ...
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JSW Steel, one of the largest Indian steelmakers, has posted a 37 percent year-on-year increase in crude steel production to 2.98 million mt for the second quarter of financial year 2013-14. According to the company's statement, in the ...
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