In view of the protests staged last week, China Government has left it to the public to decide to allow China National Petrochemical Corp. (CNPC) to establish a new chemical plant in Kunming, capital city of Yunnan Province in south-west ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Spartanburg, South Carolina-based Synalloy Corporation announced Thursday that its Synalloy Metals' fabrication subsidiary has been awarded an additional contract on an international project. Synalloy Fabrication's Ram-Fab unit has been ...
Tags: Synalloy Corp, Fabrication Project
In Sweden, industrial production increased by 0.8 percent in March this year compared to February, and remained stable year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). New orders for Swedish industry ...
Tags: Basic Metal Orders, Mineral
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year Turkey's flat steel imports, including hot rolled, cold rolled, coated and narrow strip steel, rose by 22 percent compared to the previous month ...
Tags: Flat Steel, Mineral
Harvey, Illinois-based Atkore International, a producer of galvanized steel tubes and pipes, electrical conduit, armored wire and cable and metal framing systems, announced Friday that for Q2 of fiscal 2013 (three months ended March 29, ...
Tags: Atkore International, Mineral
On Friday, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) made an affirmative preliminary injury determination in the antidumping investigation of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan. The vote was five to ...
Tags: Nickel-Plated Flat Steel, Mineral
Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending May 10, the US rig count increased by five to 1,769, following a 10-rig increase a week ago. Nonetheless, the rig count was still down 205 rigs from the same week a year ago when active ...
According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), Indian motor vehicle production in April this year decreased 2.8 percent as compared to April 2012 with 1,721,455 vehicles produced. In the latest Indian fiscal year (from ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Mineral
India's Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) seeks government intervention for construction of transportation infrastructure to carry iron ore from its Chiria iron ore reserves being developed in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand, ...
In March this year, the seasonally-adjusted index for Italian industrial production decreased by 0.8 percent compared with the previous month. In the first quarter, the seasonally-adjusted index decreased 0.4 percent compared with the ...
Tags: Industrial Production, Mineral
According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in March this year amounted to 7.7 million metric tons, ...
Tags: Domestic Steel Product, Mineral
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario-based Essar Steel Algoma's lenders have approved an amendment to the company's September 2012 credit agreement allowing for credit support from its parent companies to reinforce Essar Steel Algoma's liquidity ...
Tags: Lenders, Steel Algoma
The world's second biggest steelmaker Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced its financial results for the financial year 2012-13 ended March 31, posting a net loss of JPY 124.6 billion ($2.2 billion), ...
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 ...
Tags: Iron and Steel Output, Mineral