On February 20, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that in January this year the country’s exports of mechanical and electrical products saw a month-on-month rise of 25.1 percent to $105.81 billion. In the same month, ...
German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it has received the final acceptance from the Indian steel giant Tata Steel regarding the modernization of coiler No. 3 at its hot strip plant in IJmuiden, Netherlands. The coiler No. 3 ...
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Beijing-based Chinese steel giant Shougang Group has announced that in January of the current year the outputs of pig iron, crude steel, finished steel and iron ore concentrate at its subsidiary Shougang Tonggang Group were equivalent to ...
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According to the data released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA), Japanese new ship export orders in January this year decreased 19.6 percent compared to the previous month of December, and were down 18.85 percent year on ...
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Harold Fitch, the man charged with overseeing Michigan's 15,000 oil and gas wells, told a House subcommittee Friday that growing hydraulic fracturing operations in his state have not caused any groundwater contamination or any other serious ...
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The UK government Friday gave its consent to Norway's Statoil to go ahead with the $7 billion Mariner oil field development which is set to be the UK's biggest new North Sea project in more than a decade. Statoil took the final ...
An energy switching scheme to save people money on their monthly energy bills has been launched in Derbyshire, after extended talks over the last few months. The county council, which has been urging people to sign up to Derbyshire Big ...
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Shares in Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) were up 3% on Monday morning on the London Stock Exchange following an update from the company on the progress of a litigation case: On 15 February 2013, the English Commercial Court [pictured] in ...
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Russian steel producer Severstal has announced that production restarted on Friday, February 15 at its Vorkutinskaya mine following last week’s explosion, except for one affected area where production will remain suspended for 90 days ...
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Oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad has said that a bomb attack caused an explosion in the 16-inch pipeline transporting fuel oil from Beiji [Bayji, Baiji] refinery (pictured) to Nineveh province on Saturday. He said the ministry expected ...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a huge petrochemical industry, but it has not translated into growth of downstream textile industry in the country. By 2015, the overall output of Saudi petrochemical industry is likely to cross 80 ...
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As of February 16, inventory of the main finished steel products (plate, hot rolled coil (HRC), cold rolled coil (CRC), rebar and wire rod) in the major steel markets in China totaled 18.016 million mt, up 1.851 million mt week on week and ...
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Solar demand from the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is forecast to grow to 13.5GW in 2013, growing 50% on year, according to NPD Solarbuzz. China, Japan, India, and Australia remain dominant for solar demand in the APAC region, and they will ...
Cumulative solar demand from the UK has now exceeded 2GW, with demand during 2012 surpassing the record levels seen during 2011, according to NPD Solarbuzz. Stimulated by an attractive policy environment, declining solar PV system prices ...
The European Commission has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding imports of seamless pipes and tubes of iron or steel, of an external diameter exceeding 406.4 mm, from China. The application was ...
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