Last week, the Taiwanese stainless steel market remained quiet, with the stable nickel price of over US$17,000/ton, the stainless steel mills planned to lift the price further, but it still needs time to see the possibility. The Chinese ...
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South Korea’s LS Industrial Systems has won a $67-million deal to build power distribution control centres for the Iraqi government. Under the deal with the Ministry of Electricity, the company will build seven distribution ...
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Korea’s dealer inventory of steel flat products has fallen for consecutive four months. According to statistics released by the Korea Iron & Steel Association (KOSA), the dealer inventory of steel flat products totaled 1.179 million ...
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According to data released by Serbia’s ministry of finance and economy, Russia’s Zelezara Smederevo, the leading steel business in Serbia, planned to restart of its Smederevo-based steel mill. Meanwhile, the company has ...
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Reportedly, Taigang Stainless, the largest stainless steel producer in China announced to cut the 300 series stainless steel price by US$50/ton but it increased the 400 series stainless steel price by US$50/ton for February. Currently, ...
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Reportedly, Korea’s Union Steel, a leading producer of color-coated sheet, announced to initial trial run at its new color-coating line in Busan this Monday. During the testing run, the company is focused on whole operation ...
Macquarie Private Wealth's well-regarded resources team argue in their 2013 global market outlook that the debate over about whether commodities are headed for a hard landing as China's growth slows is meaningless. Because the boom is ...
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According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China the country's fixed-asset investment in the mining industry reached $211 billion (CNY 1,312.9 billion) in 2012, an increase of 11.8% over 2011. Fixed-asset investment in coal mining ...
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In 2012, China’s crude steel output totaled 716.54 million mt, increasing by 3.1 percent year on year, according to data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics on January 18.Also in 2012, China’s total output of ...
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Led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, a team of researchers in the Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) has raised the energy conversion efficiency record for copper ...
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It’s reported that China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering & Construction Co. said that the company has signed an agreement valued US$712 million with Iranian Butia Steel to establish a steel plant in Iran. Under ...
According to study report of CARE Research, India’s steel demand could have annual growth by 6.7 % until financial year 2016-17, which is faster than the expected growth in Chinese during the same period. In line with domestic ...
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Ukrainian steel pipe and wheel producer Interpipe has announced that its new electric furnace steelmaking complex Dneprostal (Interpipe Steel) has melted its 500,000th metric ton of steel. The mill has gradually increased its production ...
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Environmental reviews of TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline have so far ignored the pollution potential of petroleum coke, a byproduct of the diluted bitumen that would get carried by the system, a group opposed to fossil ...
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Natural gas withdrawals from UK storage facilities hit a record high Wednesday as cold temperatures pushed up demand and prices. End-of-day nominations showed total withdrawals of 112 million cubic meters, of which 44 million cu m ...