Hong Kong-based conglomerate CITIC Pacific has announced that it is delaying completion of its $8 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia until late May because of engineering problems, the latest in a series of setbacks to plague ...
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In April this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) decreased to 50.5, lower compared to the final value of 51.6 in March, as announced by the HSBC. The flash new orders sub-index decreased to 48.6 ...
As of April 22, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 71.10 million mt, indicating a rise of 0.57 million mt or 0.81 percent on week on week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of April 22, the ...
MST - Seamless Tube & Pipe, leading manufacturer of high-quality carbon and alloy seamless cold-drawn pipe and tube, announced Monday that its parent company Optima Specialty Steel, Inc. (OSS) has committed $25 million in capital to expand ...
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One of the two blast furnaces at Serbia's only steelmaker, Zelezara Smederevo, formerly US Steel Serbia, became operational on Monday, April 22, restoring the company's production after nine months, according to local media reports. ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production fell 1.2 percent in the week ending April 20, reversing the 1.2 percent increase the previous week. Total raw steel production in the United States ...
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Alan Bartlett and Sons has commissioned the construction of the largest privately owned, roof mounted solar panel installation for self-use in the UK. The company acquired its Chatteris site in 1968, which has since been developed into a ...
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The benefits of solar energy have been widely published for many years, with the technology able to make significant inroads on carbon emissions as well as reducing the financial costs of running a home. However, recent studies and ...
While feed-in-tariffs are a well-established incentive scheme, which many homeowners have benefited from since they were introduced, the government's new Green Deal financing scheme is very much in its infancy. With feed-in tariff ...
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ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Ostrava (AMTPO), the biggest producer of tubes and pipes in the Czech Republic, has announced that it has concluded an important contract for supplies of water tubes with polypropylene coating for an extensive ...
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On April 21, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (WISCO) announced that in 2012 its subsidiary Echeng Iron and Steel Co. received financial subsidies worth RMB 280 million ($45 million) from Ezhou municipal ...
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According to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel), in March this year the crude steel output of 63 countries surveyed across the globe reached 134.9 million mt, increasing by one percent compared to March 2012 and up 3.5 percent ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in the first quarter this year its sales division sold 865,600 mt of finished steel for use in key projects in China, equivalent to 27.48 percent of its ...
Hanwha SolarOne, a global provider of total photovoltaic (PV) solar solutions has supplied modules for two new ground-mounted PV installations in the UK. The Germany-based EPC company ib vogt GmbH was responsible for the realization of ...
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In January this year, Italy's finished steel exports totaled 1.253 million metric tons, down by 9.7 percent, while its finished steel imports amounted to 1.331 million metric tons, up 25.2 percent, both year on year, as announced by the ...
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