Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Qian'an Iron and Steel Co. (Qiangang), a subsidiary of Beijing-based Chinese steelmaker Shougang Co., has become the main supplier of electrical steel to Jiangsu Province-based WEG Nantong Co., which ...
Tags: Electrical Steel, Mineral
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in March this year the country's manufacturing output fell by 2.2 percent compared to the same month of 2012, while the seasonally adjusted manufacturing production is ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from German-based Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM) to modernize the continuous slab caster No. 1 in the Duisburg-Huckingen plant. ...
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Luxembourg-headquartered global stainless steel producer Aperam SA, which was spun off by ArcelorMittal and separately listed in 2011, has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. In the first quarter, Aperam ...
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The world's largest steelmaker Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has announced that it is targeting cost cuts of $3 billion by the end of 2015. As of March this year, the company had achieved $200 million in cost improvements. According to ...
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The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) has stated that in April this year the aggregate automobile output in China totaled 1,899,400 vehicles, down 8.9 percent month on month but up 15.3 percent on year-on-year basis. In ...
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Chile's CAP SA recorded net earnings of $45.1 million in Q1 and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $137.2 million, down 46.4 percent and 31.5 percent, respectively from Q1 2012. The company said the ...
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On May 10, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced the initiation of an antidumping (AD) investigation of alloy seamless steel pipes imported from the EU, Japan and the United States. On March 22 this year, Inner Mongolia-based North ...
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Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), which operates two dock systems in eastern India, is planning to resume full-fledged shipbreaking activities after nearly three years, a senior port official said on Friday, May 10. According to A K Bagchi, ...
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In April this year, Germany's crude steel output amounted to 3.56 million metric tons, decreasing 0.9 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, and down 6.6 percent month on month, according to the information provided by the ...
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In March this year, the seasonally and working-day adjusted turnover in the German manufacturing industry rose by 1.7 percent compared to the previous month, following a revised month-on-month increase of 0.2 percent in February, according ...
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Kravet, a distributor of fabrics, furniture, wall coverings, trimmings, carpets and accessories, is opening a showroom in the Las Vegas Design Center. International Market Centers officials said Kravet will occupy a 4,684-square-foot ...
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India's Central Board of Excise and Customs has imposed a 2.5 percent import duty on melting scrap and stainless steel scrap, according to notification published on May 8. India has not collected any duties from scrap imports until now. ...
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Globus Medical has launched Fortify I, an expandable corpectomy spacer with integrated screws for further stability in addition to supplemental fixation. FORTIFY I is an additional option in the Globus portfolio of expandable spacers that ...
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The Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory (SDCL) has chosen the Fluidigm BioMark HD System as a cornerstone technology for its laboratory in Regina, Canada. Operated by the province's Ministry of Health, the SDCL offers a variety of ...