BASF and its customers are innovating with plastics solutions in Asia Pacific to address the sustainability challenges of the region and the world. At Chinaplas 2014, BASF will demonstrate solutions that help local and international ...
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Improving Energy Efficiency and ROI for Forge Presses Creating 7 million lb of pressure to bear on heated metal billets is noisy and hot. For the customer, powerful hydraulic pressure comes with high electrical energy cost and wear and ...
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The US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced its final affirmative decision regarding the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat rolled steel products from Japan. Accordingly, the ...
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) expects apparent steel consumption in the US to deliver a return to growth and recovery in 2014-2015, after a decrease of 0.6 percent in 2013, according to its short range outlook. Worldsteel ...
According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in the MENA region, steel demand is expected to grow by 6.1 percent to 66.7 million mt in 2014 after a 0.9 percent increase in 2013. Worldsteel pointed out ...
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On April 10, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in the first quarter this year it exported 375,000 mt of finished steel, up 26 percent, with an export value of $220 million, ...
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Brazil-based Gerdau Group has announced that it has presented a preliminary proposal for the acquisition of the French special steel producer Ascometal for €41.5 million. Ascometal has three steel plants located in Hagondange, Les ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 2.078 million mt of iron ore concentrate in the January-March period of ...
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In February of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.72 million metric tons, up 1.32 percent compared to February 2013, according to the data released by the ...
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Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel companies, has announced that its contract with Baosteel Resources, the raw materials-focused wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese steelmaking major Baosteel, which provides for an increase ...
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Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it will replace the blast furnace oil injection system at its Raahe steel plant with a new pulverized coal injection (PCI) system to improve steelmaking cost efficiency by reducing raw ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in February this year South Africa's manufacturing output rose by 1.4 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the increase included the ...
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In March this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports decreased by 0.9 percent year on year and increased by 28.6 percent compared to February to $1.63 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry ...
In the first quarter of the current year, direct supplies of steel scrap by rail to Russian metallurgical companies and pipe plants totaled 2.14 million mt, down 2.8 percent year on year and constituting the lowest first quarter volume the ...
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According to figures issued by Russian Railways, in March this year direct deliveries of cast iron, rolled steel, pipes and semi-finished products to locomotive, car repair and car production plants in Russia (including dual-purpose ...
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