The Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has stated that it has signed a contract with Italy's Termokimik Corporation, a leading producer of environmental equipment for industrial companies, to develop the basic engineering ...
Tags: Metinvest, mineral, investment, environment protect
Employees of Prestige Flooring located in Fenton, Mo., worked with the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) to install 900 square feet of flooring in a Habitat for Humanity home in November. The crew members installing the flooring ...
Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has stated that it plans to invest more that RUB 6.6 billion ($199.4 million) in 2014 to develop its subsidiary Vyksa Steel Works and its foundry-rolling complex. The ...
Tags: OMK, investment, metallurgy
Ceramiche Refin has introduced the new Artwork collection. The collection consists of Venetian polished plaster finishes on porcelain stoneware. Artowrk is available in six colors and many sizes including a 2 cm thick textured variant, ...
Tags: Construction News, Ceramiche Refin
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for November 2013 over November 2012. Intermodal traffic in November totaled 1,007,549 containers and trailers, up 7.8 percent (73,004 units) compared ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
Brazil's motor vehicle output in November this year decreased by 10.7 percent from the previous month and by eight percent year on year to 289,633 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...
Tags: export, Brazil, motor vehicle, output
On December 4, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in November this year its outputs of pig iron, crude steel and finished steel amounted to 805,800 mt, 859,700 mt and 800,900 mt ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
For its fiscal second-quarter 2014 (ended 27 October 2013), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported a fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth, to a record $290.7m. This is ...
Tags: Finisar, Electrical, Electronics, fiber-optic communications component
Tenaris announced Wednesday an agreement to purchase, subject to regulatory approval, the remaining 50 percent interest in Socotherm Brasil from Socotherm Americas, a division of ShawCor. Socotherm Brasil operates a pipe coating facility ...
Rug and home décor manufacturer Safavieh already had plans in place to incorporate orchid in its winter introductions. The Cambridge collection from Safavieh is hand-tufted of wool in India with plush and loop textures to highlight ...
Tags: Furniture News, Orchid, Winter Plans
German-based plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a premium quality finishing tube rolling mill for the global pipe and tube producer Tenaris' Bay City site in Texas, US. The first seamless tube plant to be set up by ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy, seamless
The trade barriers between the European Union and Guatemala, have been lifted with effect from December 1, 2013, which effectively means that the whole region of Central America can now benefit from the EU–Central America Association ...
Tags: trade barriers, Textile
The Munich-based WACKER Group has developed a new dispersion based on vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers (VAE) especially for the European carpet market. With VINNAPAS CA 55 as a binder, it is possible to formulate both precoats and ...
Tags: Carpet Market, WACKER
According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in October this year Turkey's season and calendar adjusted monthly industrial production index decreased by 3.1 percent compared to the previous month, while the ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
ArcelorMittal was recognized by the US Department of Energy this week for its leadership in the Better Buildings, Better Plants Program, which supports the Obama administration's target to increase energy productivity in the US by 2030. ...
Tags: US, energy, Arcelormittal, energy productivity, energy efficiency