According to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, in January this year the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 77.4 percent, falling 1.9 percentage points ...
Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending January 25, the US rig count increased by four to 1,753, the first increase in the past nine weeks. On a year-on-year basis, the US rig count was still down 255 rigs. Rigs drilling for ...
On Tuesday, US trade representative Ron Kirk announced his resignation and plans to step down in February. No successor was immediately named although a couple international economic policy aides are said to be frontrunners. "From ...
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Installation of PV arrays at roof level, and the siting of solar parks in open, exposed locations, makes PV systems susceptible to damage from partial lightning currents. Partial lightning currents can enter the PV system following a ...
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Willen Hospice, based in Milton Keynes, which specialises in caring for people whose illnesses no longer respond to curative treatment, is now benefiting from solar power thanks to an initiative from Conergy, SMA Solar UK and local PV ...
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Weekly PV Highlights: The initial installation numbers for the week ending 20th January 2013 show 1,528 installations in that week compared to 1,507 for the week ending 13th January 2013. The total number of installations on the MCS is ...
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Swindon Commercial Services Ltd, owned by Swindon Council, has partnered up with the Science Museum, which owns a former airfield just outside of Wroughton, to create a 40MW solar farm. The proposed farm will comprise 160,000 solar panels ...
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Higher Knapp Farm in Knapp near Taunton, Somerset has recently rented out a small percentage of its land to solar power generator, Lightsource Renewable Energy. The land will now accommodate a solar farm generating 1.5 MW of green energy ...
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France's Total has requested permission from the UK's Health and Safety Executive to restart its Elgin-Franklin field complex in the North Sea and hopes to restart production "as soon as possible within the first quarter," the company said ...
China imported 289 million mt of coal in 2012, up 57.9% year on year, a compilation of the monthly China customs data released on Tuesday showed. Of the total imports, thermal coal comprised 35.14%, coking coal 18.55%, anthracite ...
It’s reported that Brazilian Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais (Usiminas) announced to supply special heavy plates to energy tubular maker TenarisConfab for a Petrobras project to explore oil extraction in Brazil's deep-sea pre-salt ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November 2012 Turkey's ferroalloy imports fell 3.5 percent compared to the previous month, following an almost 15 percent month-on-month increase in October and ...
In the January-November period last year, Jilin Province-based Chinese steelmaker Tonggang Group, a subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Shougang Group, produced 4.2312 million mt of pig iron, 3.8242 million mt of crude steel, and 4.0152 ...
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Ozkan Steel USA LLC will build a steel plant with an annual capacity of 300,000 mt in southern Louisiana, US, focused on the shipbuilding industry, with a total investment of $150 million. The steel plant will employ 350 people. The exact ...
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Domestic sales in Turkey's home appliance market increased by 2.7 percent on year-on-year basis in December last year, totaling 449,405 units, according to the data released by the Turkish Home Appliance Industrialists Association (BESD). ...
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