Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Franc Cardona, the marketing and international affairs director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, stated that margins in the long steel product trade ...
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The Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association (AIPIA) is a treasure chest of knowledge. Here are two gems: Has the milk gone off in the carton? Are the veges in the can still ok? Soon, there will be a way to know without ...
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On March 27, Anhui Province-based Chinese steelmaker Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. (Masteel) issued its financial results for 2013, announcing an operating revenue of RMB 73.85 billion ($12.07 billion), while it achieved a net profit of RMB 157 ...
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German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a semi-continuous billet mill for Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, the new integrated steel plant Taiwan-based Formosa Group is building in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. The produced billets ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from South Korean steelmaker Hyundai Steel for a continuous bloom casting machine, a large bar rolling mill and a small bar and wire rod mill ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's wire rod exports decreased by 3.79 percent year on year to 115,908 metric tons, up 29.09 percent month on month. The revenue from ...
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Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) launched trading of hot rolled coil (HRC) futures contracts today, March 21, offering another hedging tool for steelmakers amid growing price volatility. The most traded HRC contract for October delivery ...
Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has stated that its metallurgical plants manufactured 33 new products in 2013. The economic benefit from these new products was $42.5 million. Several Metinvest enterprises - Yenakiieve ...
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Canadian steelmaker Ivaco Rolling Mills announced Monday that it will receive a $7 million loan from the Ontario provincial government to modernize its steel billet and hot-rolled wire rod facility in L’Orignal, Ontario. Plans for ...
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Pneumatic actuator is a device which converts the energy from a compressed air supply into linear or rotary motion. There are a wide range of actuators available to carry out numerous functions in different areas with utmost precision and ...
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Protecting PV system components, in particular inverters, from the damaging effects of overvoltage surges is both crucial and necessary. Here Tony Garlinge-Warren, senior applications engineer, Eaton's Bussmann business, examines what ...
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February steel imports are expected to hold at elevated levels seen in January, which was already a near 27% boost from December, according to Department of Commerce data that was updated Tuesday. The US had 2.9 million mt of steel ...
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When swimming around, bacteria aren't good with the "pool rules."? In small quantities, they'll follow the lanes, but put enough together and they'll begin to create their own flow. In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of ...
In the first two months of the current year, Turkey's steel exports totaled 3.07 million mt, down four percent year on year, while the value of these exports decreased by 2.7 percent year on year to $2.3 billion, according to the data ...
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Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with its trading affiliate Shinsho Corporation, Japan companies Metal One Corporation and Osaka Seiko Ltd, and US-based Republic Steel to consider ...
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