According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year new motor vehicle registrations in Turkey decreased by 27.2 percent year on year to 64,364 units, up 23.2 percent on month-on-month basis. ...
In April this year, Mexico's car and light commercial vehicle production volume increased by 3.9 percent year on year to 248,031 units, according to the release from the Mexican Association of the Automotive Industry (AMIA). In the given ...
Tags: Auto Output, commercial vehicle
In March this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 22.47 million mt, increasing by 13.75 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
Tags: Vale, Iron Ore Exports
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has announced that it has found that the dumping of hot rolled carbon steel plate imports from Brazil, Denmark, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and South Korea has not caused but is threatening to cause ...
Tags: AD Duty, Hot Rolled Plate
In the January-April period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China (from a total of 80 shipbuilding enterprises) amounted to 10.36 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 24.9 percent year on year, according to figures ...
Tags: Shipbuilding Output, ship orders
German truck and car maker MAN has announced its plans to shut down its bus production plant at Plauen, Germany by the end of March 2015, shifting production to its Turkey-based Ankara plant, which was the first MAN site outside of Germany ...
In April this year, Taiwan's basic metal and basic metal product export orders amounted to $2.51 billion, up 1.7 percent compared to March and increasing by 11.4 percent compared to April 2013, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
Tags: Basic Metal Export, metal product
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in April this year Turkish producers' foreign sales price index (PPI)* in general decreased by 3.21 percent over March and was up 19.20 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Foreign Sales, Metal
A 31-count indictment filed in the US District Court Monday charged Chinese hackers with gaining illegal access to a handful of Pittsburgh-area industrial firms, including US Steel. The charges against five officers in the Chinese military ...
Tags: Steel, US District Court
JSW Steel, one of the largest Indian steelmakers, produced 990,000 mt of crude steel in April this year, rising 14 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. According to the company's statement, in April JSW Steel produced ...
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Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it has completed the €100 million investment project at its quarto plate mill in Degerfors, Sweden. The investment program entailed upgrades to the whole production ...
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Kortrijk, Belgium-based Bekaert, one of the world's largest steel cord and wire manufacturers, has announced that in the first quarter of the current year it achieved consolidated sales of €782 million, falling 2.1 percent compared to ...
Tags: Bekaert, steel cord
Renewable energy is a solution to carbon emission and climate change. As the world’s biggest carbon emitter, China has been encouraging solar power development and installation to lower its emission volume. To cut its reliance on ...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Solar Power
According to local authorities, HAZMAT teams and the Lorain Fire Department were dispatched to Lorain, Ohio-based Republic Steel Thursday after chemical fumes led to a plant evacuation. In a statement, the company identified the location ...
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Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced its financial results for 2013. In the given period, Mechel saw an adjusted net loss of $734 million compared to a net profit of $305 million in 2012, while its sales revenues decreased by ...