Marubeni Corporation ("Marubeni"), jointly with Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. ("Mitsubishi-Hitachi"), was awarded a contract by JSW Steel Limited, a steel company in the private sector in India, for the supply of a slab sizing ...
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Russian pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced its acquisition of Russia-based Chusovoy Steel Works (ChSW), one of Europe's largest producers of car springs. ChSW manufactures 400 types of springs, which are ...
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Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that Nippon International Crankshaft Inc. (ICI), its joint venture subsidiary with Sumitomo Corporation which forges crankshafts in the US, has decided to ...
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Borouge, a global provider of innovative plastic solutions is very upbeat on the Indian market, and expects a significant part of its global manufacturing capacity under-expansion to cater to the Indian market. In 2014 Borouge is ...
Tags: Wires, Cables, Electrical, Electronics
BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
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After a sharp downturn following the 2008 financial crisis, growth in coatings demand in the Gulf region of the Middle East is now surging forward again. This recovery was symbolized in late November by the announcement that Dubai, which ...
Tags: Middle East, construction, coatings market
Solarion AG of Leipzig, Germany has begun the series production of its flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, the first of which is a flexible solar foil directly laminated onto 0.7mm rolled ...
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Calyxo GmbH of Bitterfeld/Wolfen-Thalheim, Germany, the largest manufacturer of cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels in Europe, says that its new production line has been inaugurated in a ceremony attended by guests including ...
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German-based plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a premium quality finishing tube rolling mill for the global pipe and tube producer Tenaris' Bay City site in Texas, US. The first seamless tube plant to be set up by ...
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China is the world's largest producer and consumer of machine tools, contributing 29.4% of the global output value and 45.1% of the global consumption of machine tools in 2012. Since H2 2011, affected by the severe domestic and ...
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Luthai Textile Co. Ltd., a global leader in the field of specially yarn dyed fabric with strong business relationships, is intending to invest US$ 8 million to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary Luthai (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., in Cambodia. ...
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Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that it has received the $150 million first tranche of project financing for the Elga Coal Complex's first stage from Russian state-owned Vnesheconombank. The total financing for the ...
Tags: CIS, Mechel, mining, Dnepropetrovsk
It's reported that Baosteel-Nippon Auto Steel Co., the joint venture of Baosteel and Nippon Steel Corp, started construction of its hot dip galvanizing line No. 4. The annual capacity of this new production line is about 420,000 tons of hot ...
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China's economic planners are taking an increasingly hawkish stance on the overcapacity issue, reportedly mulling a "white list" for the next campaign. Several central ministries, including the National Development and Reform Commission, ...
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Honda Automoveis do Brasil (HAB), an automobile production and sales subsidiary of Honda in Brazil, has commenced the construction of its new BRL1bn ($435.8m) automobile production plant in Itirapina in the state of Sao Paulo. The ...
Tags: Honda, $435m Automobile Production, Brazil