On January 21, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth a total of RMB 1 billion ($163.9 million) on January 24 and January 26. This will be ...
Local news reported Tuesday that the Douglas County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with the city of Superior that will begin the process for Reston, Virginia-based International Metallics Corporation (IMC) to build an ...
Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB and Finland-based steelmaker Rautaruukki have announced that they have come to an agreement to combine the two companies through SSAB making a recommended public share exchange offer amounting to SEK ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from Turkish integrated long steel producer Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) to supply key components to clean the ...
Russkaya Stal (Russian Steel), a non-pro association of Russian domestic steelmakers, has reported that its main member enterprises produced 4.65 million metric tons of finished steel in December last year, up six percent from November and ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November last year new motor vehicle registrations in Turkey increased by 3.4 percent year on year to 95,065 units, up 27.4 percent on month-on-month ...
Tags: TUIK, vehicle registration, truck
Trade disputes can often be resolved through dialogue. A good example of this process is the recent deal between China and European Union (EU) concerning solar panels. Dialogue does not always work, however, when it comes to trade between ...
Tags: Sino-US Solar Spat, Mineral
When it comes to graphene and photovoltaics, for the most part it's only been a story about replacing the indium tin oxide (ITO) used as the transparent electrodes of organic solar cells. But last year Spanish researchers in collaboration ...
Tags: Graphene, Perskovite, organic solar cells, Electrical, Electronics
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has stated that there is nothing effective about the existing European climate policy which is highly damaging to the competitiveness of European industry, forcing the shift of industrial production ...
Tags: steel industry, climate change
According to the data released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA), Japanese new ship export orders in December last year increased by 55.41 percent on tonnage basis compared to November, amounting to 44 ships compared to 36 ...
Tags: New Ship Export Orders, delivered ships for export, Japan
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the fourth quarter of 2013 Turkey's building construction cost index increased 1.2 percent quarter on quarter and was up 7.2 percent compared to the same ...
Tags: Turkey, building construction, material index, installation material
Australia-based magnetite iron ore pellet producer Grange Resources has announced its production results for the quarter ended December 31, 2013. In the given quarter, Grange produced 632,906 mt of iron ore concentrate, up 22.2 percent ...
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Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has announced that its crude steel output amounted to 3.989 million mt in the fourth quarter of 2013, up 0.7 percent quarter on quarter. In the fourth quarter last year, the crude steel ...
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Europe's largest coking coal producer Poland-based Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa SA (JSW) has announced that in 2013 it sold 14.35 million mt of coal, constituting its largest annual volume of coal sales in over 10 years. During last year, ...
Tags: Coal Sales, Mineral
Uzbekistan-based steel producer Uzmetkombinat has announced that it has modernized its steel production at a cost of $17.094 million. The modernization included construction of a steel degassing facility on a turnkey basis with a capacity ...
Tags: Steel Production, Mineral