Shougang, one of the major steel producers in China planned to remain its crude steel output unchanged at 33 million tons in 2014 due to uncertainties on steel prices. Last year, Shougang’s crude steel output was at 33 million tons ...
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According to the data from China Customs data, China’s seamless pipe export volumes increased by 8% from previous month to 247,542 tons. However, the increasing rate is not enough for the rate of increased production. The amount is ...
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Ford Motor Company announced today the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a first-of-its-kind sun-powered vehicle with the potential to deliver the best of what a plug-in hybrid offers – without depending on the electric grid for fuel. ...
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the country’s exports of hot rolled coils (HRC) totaled 113,492 tons in November, jumping by 72% from 65,803 tons in October while remaining almost unchanged in ...
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China's oil demand in November fell 2.1 percent year-on-year to an average 9.9 million barrels a day, according to a report by Platts that was based on China's latest government data. It is the second time that China's oil demand declined ...
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The cargo throughput of the five-tier ship lock of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, in Central China set a new record last year, the operator of the ship lock said. The throughput jumped 15.4 percent year on ...
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The Petrobras' P-55 platform, one of the strategic projects in the 2013-2017 Business and Management Plan, started-up the last Tuesday (12/31/13) in Campos Basin's Roncador field. P-55 is part of Roncador´s field Module 3 project ...
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It is reported that Korea iron and steel enterprises planned to expand capacity and growth in end-user industries such as the automobile industry and raw materials demand in 2014.Therefore, the country expected both domestic demand and ...
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According to a report from Alacero, finished steel imports from China to Latin America reached 4.7 million tons between January-November 2013, growing 17 percent versus same period of 2012. Latin America represented 10 percent of the global ...
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In the January-November period of last year, Turkey's finished steel output increased 6.5 percent year on year to 33.30 million metric tons, according to the report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In ...
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In November last year, Argentina's production of hot rolled steel reached 436,600 metric tons, 11.1 percent lower than in the previous month and 11.5 percent higher than in November 2012, according to Argentina's Chamber of Steel. In the ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Prices Mar. corn closed at $4.23 and 1/2, up 3 cents Jan. soybeans closed at $12.89 and 1/4, up 2 and 1/4 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $424.50, up 70 cents Jan. soybean oil closed at 38.34, ...
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Ford's new concept for solar-powered hybrid car can run for 21 electric-only miles on a day's worth of sunlight. That possibility comes courtesy of sun-tracking software that works in combination with a concentrator lens to focus the ...
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All three wheat futures closed lower than the last report on December 20. Abundant world supplies and weakness in the corn market pushed futures to their lowest point since May 2012 on Thursday. Bargain buying on Friday helped notch the ...
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Raw silk production in India should be doubled to 46,000 tons by the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, i.e. 2016-17, with an annual growth rate of 20-25 percent in silk production, said Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao at a meeting ...