South Korea based shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries announced on August 30, that it won a $1.4 billion order to build five 18,000 TEU class and five 14,000 TEU class container ships from the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) on August ...
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Japanese automobile production in July this year totaled 910,114 units, decreasing by 13,405 units or 1.45 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. Japan's auto output indicated a year-on-year decline for the 11th ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based L.B. Foster Company announced Thursday that it has begun delivery of their largest contract for steel grid bridge decking with the rehabilitation of the New York State Bridge Authority's Newburgh-Beacon span. ...
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According to figures from the National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO), Mexican steel output fell 1.2 percent during the first half of the year to reach 8.819 million tons, versus 8.923 million tons of the same period last ...
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Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shagang Group has recently issued its financial results for the first half of the current year. Accordingly, the company's net profit for the given period totaled RMB 8.806 million ($1.44 ...
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Russkaya Stal (Russian Steel), a non-profit association of Russian domestic steelmakers, has reported that its main member enterprises produced 4.55 million metric tons of finished steel in July this year, up 2.7 percent from June and ...
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On August 29, Shanxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co.announced its financial report for the first half of the current year. Accordingly, in the given period the company's operating revenue totaled RMB ...
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Russian pipemaker TMK has informed that it has shipped 3,500 mt of oil-and-gas pipes with an outside diameter of 273.1 mm and 323.9 mm of strength grade X60QS produced by Volzhsky Pipe Plant ( a part of TMK Group) for the construction of ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has released the fourth quarter 2013 reference prices for hot-rolled steel flat products pursuant to the suspension agreement with Russia. The reference prices for the fourth quarter of 2013 (October 1 ...
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On August 29, Liaoning-based Chinese steelmaker Benxi Steel announced that five blast furnaces with volumes below 530 m3 in its Beiying Rolling Mill is expected to be eliminated in line with Benxi City's upgrading and reconstruction project ...
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It's reported that Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd(RINL),an Indian government-owned integrated steel producer has cooperated with the Russian steelmaker NLMK to build silicon steel facility. RINL has strong anxiety to build a cold rolled ...
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The mining giant Rio Tinto announced to pour nearly €80 million in its Dunkirk aluminum plant in the past 18 months. It's learned that the company plans to invest at least that much again over the next five years on energy saving and ...
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According to data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF), Japan's shipments of cold rolled (CR) sheets and strips totraled 3.26 million tons in the first half of this year, down by1.9% year on year. Among them, 48% were made ...
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Some new evidences for the existence of element 115 have been presented by a team of Swedish scientists. The evidence was published Tuesday in the U.S. scientific journal "Physical Review Letters". The element is highly radioactive and ...
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The UK's monthly thermal coal consumption fell to a 21-month low in June, with the country's power plants burning just 2.99 million mt, down 22% on the month and 11% on the year, according to data released Thursday by the Department of ...
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