Australia-based Aquila Resources Limited announced that Sumisho Coal Australia Pty Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, has decided to pull out of a coal exploration partnership with Aquila. In April 2012, Aquila ...
Tags: Sumitomo, Coal Exploration
According to the monthly consumer tendency survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the consumer confidence index* in Turkey, which stood at 74.9 points in March, increased by 0.9 percent month on month in April to 75.6 ...
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Domestic sales in Turkey's home appliance market grew by 10.1 percent on year-on-year basis in March this year, totaling 566,841 units, according to the data released by the Turkish Home Appliance Industrialists Association (BESD). The ...
Tags: Home Appliance, Mineral
Quotas on imports of coking coal to Ukraine are to be set from June 1, 2013, while the quotas will be distributed in line with recommendations of the interagency commission headed by Ukrainian deputy prime minister Yuriy Boiko. According ...
Tags: Coking Coal Import, Mineral
Russian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Vyksa Steel Works, a part of Russia-based OMK Group, has announced its production results for March and the first three months of the current year. Accordingly, in the January-March period ...
Tags: Vyksa Steel, Steel Pipe Output
Engineers and technicians from Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) put into operation in late April a new BOF converter in the Steel 1 project, developed with an investment of 44.6 million pesos (US$3.7 million) in the production schedule for ...
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According to the latest report published by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in 2012 Brazilian iron ore output amounted to 375 million mt, increasing 0.5 percent compared to the 373 ...
Tags: Iron Ore Export, Mineral
Saint-Georges, Quebec-based fabricator Canam Group Inc. announced Monday that its subsidiary, Canam Steel Corporation, has signed an agreement to acquire the steel joist fabrication assets of Quincy Joist Company, a subsidiary of Schuff ...
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Australian iron ore development company BC Iron Limited has announced that in the quarter ended on March 31 it produced 1.20 million mt of iron ore, up 49 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year, while its iron ore ...
Tags: BC Iron, Iron Ore Output
Brazil's national statistics agency, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE), has reported that the producer price index (PPI) in Brazil was stable month on month in March this year, but recorded a rise of one percent ...
Tags: Metal Industry, Mineral
Russia-based steel pipe producer ChTPZ Group has announced its production results for the first quarter of this year. Accordingly, in the January-March period, ChTPZ shipped 382,100 mt of steel pipes to customers, representing an eight ...
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In April this year, the seasonally adjusted confidence index in the Italian construction sector decreased by two percent from 79.8 in March to 78.2, declining for the second month in a row, after the month-on-month increases witnessed in ...
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According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's ferrous scrap exports totaled 865,536 metric tons in March this year, rising by 3.5 percent month on month and up 26.4 percent compared to March 2012. Meanwhile, in ...
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In the January-March period of this year, China's aggregate crude steel output totaled 191.89 million mt, up 9.1 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Meanwhile, the country's ...
Tags: Finished Steel Output, Mineral
According to the latest data released by Statistics South Africa, in March this year the country's producer price index (PPI) for the basic iron and steel industry rose 1.6 percent compared to February and was up 5.6 percent compared to ...
Tags: Steelmaker, Mineral