According to a new report commissioned by ClickSoftware Technologies, the number of mobile workers across the globe will reach 1.3 billion by 2015 but indications show that companies are not ready to tap this trend. Forty-six percent of ...
Tags: Mobile workers, IT departments, mobile customer service
A cat is set to replace the classic iron token used in Monopoly. Fans from 185 countries voted for the change on Facebook as part of the Monopoly "Save Your Token" campaign, which featured on the cover of ToyNews' February issue. The ...
On Monday the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced that it has rescinded the administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on circular welded carbon quality steel pipe (standard pipe) from China. The review had ...
Tags: DOC, Chinese Standard Pipe, Mineral
In the week ended February 11, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 3 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 23 percent ...
Tags: Coal Exports, Mineral, Australia
Pipe and tube manufacturer JMC Steel Group announced Friday that CEO Frank A. Riddick III is leaving the company to pursue other matter and Barry Zekelman, the company's executive chairman, is returning to the office of CEO, effective ...
The American Iron Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production increased 1.2 percent in the week ending February 9, following a decline in the last couple weeks. Total raw steel production in the United States ...
Tags: Raw Steel Production, Mineral, Iron Steel
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in 2012 Turkey's wire rod exports amounted to 893,417 metric tons, decreasing by 20.7 percent compared to 2011, while the total revenue from these exports amounted ...
Tags: Wire Rod Exports, Mineral, Turkish
Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced its financial results for the first quarter ended December 31 of the financial year 2012-13. In the given quarter, ThyssenKrupp's net profit amounted to €29 million, decreasing by ...
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Indian steelmaker Tata Steel has announced that it has restarted its blast furnace No. 4 at the Port Talbot steelworks in the UK, the second blast furnace to be restarted at the steelworks in question, following the completion of a ...
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According to the statistics released by Taiwan's Ministry of Finance in January this year, Taiwan's export value of iron and steel and articles made from iron and steel increased by 4.3 percent compared to the same month of 2012 and was up ...
Tags: Taiwan, Steel Export and Import, Mineral
The European Commission (EC) has held a roundtable meeting today, February 12, attended by representatives from 13 steel producing member states and the European Parliament, regarding the EC's plan to deliver an action plan by June to ...
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Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 24.6 million mt in January this year, decreasing 23.6 percent compared to December last year and up by 35.6 percent compared to the same month of 2012, according to the preliminary information ...
Tags: Flat Steel Exports, Mineral, Metallurgy
Africa's largest steel producer, ArcelorMittal South Africa, has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2012. In the fourth quarter of 2012, ArcelorMittal South Africa registered a net loss of ZAR ...
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The government of Algeria has decided to increase its control of local steel producer ArcelorMittal Annaba which was purchased by ArcelorMittal in 2001, according to domestic media reports. The Algerian government will pay $200 million ...
Tags: Algeria, Arcelormittal Annaba, Mineral
Madrid, Spain-based stainless steel producer Acerinox has announced that it will supply stainless rebars worth $15 million for the construction of a new bridge between Hong Kong and Macao, through its Malaysian subsidiary Bahru Stainless. ...
Tags: Acerinox, Stainless Rebar, Mineral