In January-May this year, total gross profits of the ferrous metal smelting, rolling and processing sector in China were up 34.28 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). In the given ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal Industry, Mineral
During the week ended August 2, prices resumed their decreasing trend in the London Metal Exchange (LME) billet market, following just one week of upward movement. The following prices were recorded in LME billet contract trading as of the ...
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In the week from July 29 to August 4, scrap indexes continued to move upward on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index maintained its upward movement. Meanwhile, the Turkish flat rolled product indexes also ...
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The Indian steel rim producer Steel Strips Wheels Ltd (SSWL) has announced that it registered net sales of INR 850.2 million ($14 million) in July, increasing by 10.8 percent compared to the corresponding month of 2012. In terms of units ...
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Zhang Changfu, vice chairman of the China Iron and Steel Asociation (CISA), has recommended the cancellation of the exemption from three percent import tax for wear-resistant steel as well as the cancellation of the exemption from 17 ...
On August 2, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. (WISCO) announced that the first phase of the Bong mine iron ore project in Liberia was successfully commissioned on July 30. WISCO owns a 60 percent ...
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In July this year, new passenger car registrations in the German market grew by two percent year on year to 253,150 units, marking just the second year-on-year rise this year following the growth recorded in April, and were down 10.5 ...
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In the first half of the current year, China's total crude steel output was 390 million mt, up 7.4 percent year on year, according to a report on overall Chinese industry in the given period released by China's Ministry of Industry and ...
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Italy-based auto parts manufacturer C.L.N. Coils Lamiere Nastri S.p.A. (CLN) has announced that it has closed its equity investment agreement with Japanese steelmaker Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. (MISI) according to which MISI now owns a ...
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SIG Combibloc has supplied shelf stable carton packs to Hirzel Canning for the launch of its Dei Fratelli Truly Tomatoes in the US. The environmentally friendly carton packaging allows Hirzel Canning to provide optimal protection for ...
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India has partly suspended patents granted to Roche Holding for its breast cancer drug Herceptin, over issues that the patents had not been filed in accordance with the laid down process. An article published in Swiss newspaper Schweiz am ...
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The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) in India has cancelled the patent for GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) anti-cancer drug Tykerb in its salt form over failure in demonstrating significant improvement in the efficacy. Fresenius ...
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Bespoke packaging solutions provider Parkside Flexibles (Europe) has been awarded accreditation for its first compostable barrier laminate. According to the company, the laminate is accredited under EN13432 Industrial Standard which ...
US-based data management solutions company MediSwipe has filed for a registered trademark for its new secure medical packaging concept ‘Mello Meal.’ The Mello Meal box packaging concept will be used at medicinal dispensaries ...
Tags: Mediswipe Files, Medical Packaging
Life science company Factor Bioscience has received the first patent for the reprogramming cells using RNA from the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), which is widely used in biological research and personalized medicine. Factor ...