In April this year, Mexico's car and light commercial vehicle production volume increased by 3.9 percent year on year to 248,031 units, according to the release from the Mexican Association of the Automotive Industry (AMIA). In the given ...
Tags: Auto Output, commercial vehicle
In March this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 22.47 million mt, increasing by 13.75 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
Tags: Vale, Iron Ore Exports
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has announced that it has found that the dumping of hot rolled carbon steel plate imports from Brazil, Denmark, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and South Korea has not caused but is threatening to cause ...
Tags: AD Duty, Hot Rolled Plate
Brazil-based Gerdau Corsa opened a new mill this week in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo, Mexico with an investment of US$600 million. The facility will be fully operational by August 2014 and will have an annual installed capacity of one ...
Tags: Gerdau Corsa, Semi-Finished
LEDs are playing an indispensable role in lighting today, moving far from being once used only as indicators to a preferred source of luminance in public, commercial and private spaces.They have also the most popular ...
Tags: Footprints
During the last decade I undertook a European research project designed to disseminate information regarding the energy consumption and environmental performance of low-energy, non-domestic buildings in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and ...
Tags: Low-Energy, Lighting
A study conducted by The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, (Texprocil) has revealed that India's cotton yarns exports are meeting their targets barring the seasonal fluctuations generally witnessed every April and inspite of high ...
Tags: Cotton Yarn, Cotton Yarn Exports
The first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cotton forecast for 2014/15 projects that global cotton production will decline for the third consecutive season. Although projected at its lowest in 5 years, production remains above ...
Tags: Cotton, cotton production
Denim fabric capacity in India is increasing with passage of years. And although domestic consumption is rising alongside, exports of denim fabric have not risen in the same fashion. At the same time, many companies are setting up new denim ...
Tags: Denim, Over-Capacity
On July 26-28, 2014 the seventh edition of Mare D’Amare is going to be held: the beachwear and accessories show which is going to host the more than two hundred 2015 summer collections from all over Europe. As from this year the ...
Tags: Beachwear
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in April this year Turkish producers' foreign sales price index (PPI)* in general decreased by 3.21 percent over March and was up 19.20 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Foreign Sales, Metal
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending May 17 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,838,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.4 percent. Production was 1,833,000 net tons in the ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Iron, Steel
India's Supreme Court has announced a partial mining ban affecting about half of the iron ore mines located in the Indian state of Odisha due to non-renewal of mining leases. The Supreme Court also said that several mines have been found to ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Mines
The US steel sheet market remains relatively steady, though a lack of buyer urgency may be eroding the bottom range of hot-rolled pricing, market sources said Monday. A top-tier mill source said import buying has picked up but domestic ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, top-tier mill
Domestic iron ore concentrate prices in north China's Hebei province have declined further by an average 5.7% or Yuan 55/dmt ($11) over the week, in response to both lower domestic steel prices as well as weakening imported iron ore prices, ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Concentrate Prices