Afghan Iron & Steel Consortium, which includes seven Indian companies and is led by India's state-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), is scaling back its iron ore investment in Afghanistan, according to media reports. The Indian ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
Egypt-based long steel producer Egyptian Steel has announced that it has signed an agreement with state-run Electric Transmission for a permanent 24-hour-a-day supply of electricity for its Beni Suief and Al Ain El Sokhna plants. Egyptian ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
In December last year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) of the Chinese steel sector stood at 47.7 percent, decreasing by 1.3 percentage points as compared to November and remaining below 50 for the fourth consecutive month, as announced ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
Briquetting plant comes from crop and forest residues, raw materials like groundnut shells, almond shells, corn kernels, cotton stalk, rice husk, tea husk, jute waste and so on. It can be used to make bio fuel that serves as alternative to ...
Tags: Briquetting plant, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand in 2014 will be dominated by the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, which will account for approximately 50% of all new solar PV demand during the year. According to findings from Solarbuzz, almost 95% of new solar ...
Trubodetal, a subsidiary of Russia-based pipe producer OMK Group, has announced that it has shipped mounting units for the Bubnovka compressor station. Under the order from Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, the plant produced 299 units. They ...
Tags: Trubodetal, Gazprom
In the first 29 days of December this year, Turkey's steel export volume decreased by 6.8 percent year on year and by 4.8 percent month on month to 1.43 million metric tons, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
The Turkish Steel Producers' Association (TCUD) has said that the steel industry performance in 2014 will be dependent on the industry's competitiveness, the demand trend in the domestic market, the recovery in export markets, mainly in ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Mineral
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending December 28, 2013, US domestic raw steel production was 1,773,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 74.0 percent. Production was 1,785,000 net tons in ...
Major Pilbara iron ore ports including Dampier, Cape Lambert and Port Hedland had to shut down due to cyclone Christine making landfall in the north of Western Australia on Monday, December 30, according to Reuters. The ports evacuated ...
On December 30, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang) announced that it plans to issue 8.255 billion shares to its controlling shareholder Baogang Group and six other companies. The total of RMB 29.8 ...
As of December 31, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 84.197 million mt, indicating a decrease of 1.206 million mt or 1.41 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Ports
In November this year, Spain's total motor vehicle output amounted to 196,926 units, rising by 6.36 percent year on year, according to the data reported by the Spanish Automobile and Truck Manufacturers' Association (ANFAC). The association ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Mineral
Based on preliminary US Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that the US imported a total of 2,584,000 net tons (nt) of steel in November, including 1,906,000 nt of finished steel (down 16.7 ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Mineral
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Program-Energy (NSTPE) will implement its second phase during 2014-2018 with an annual investment of NT$5 billion (US$167 million) in energy research to attain three major goals: energy ...