Jet fuel differentials firmed to end a week that saw production and demand exactly matched in the US, just not in the Chicago market, with its world-high outright prices. Platts assessed Chicago unchanged at NYMEX June heating oil futures ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Chemicals
A US commodity trading house has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against BP, Shell and Statoil, the three European oil companies being investigated by the European Commission for suspected manipulation of oil prices. The oil ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
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It’s reported that Taiwanese China Steel Corp.'s received orders in the first half of this year have been overbooked for 5%. Besides, the company's before tax sales profit in the first four months of 2013 were over than NT$8.5 ...
Tags: CSC, H1, Metallurgy
China Steel Structure Co. (CSSC), the subsidiary company of Taiwan's China Steel Corp. and also one of the major steel structure suppliers in Taiwan, said the company's orders have been full booked until the end of 2013. CSSC's manager said ...
Tags: CSSC, 2013, Metallurgy
In April this year, French crude steel production amounted to 1.245 million mt, down by 12.2 percent year on year, according to the latest data released by the French Steel Federation (FFA). In April, crude steel production in France ...
Tags: Crude Steel, France, Metallurgy
According to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, in May this year the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 75 percent, down 2.7 percentage points compared ...
On May 23, Shanghai Baofeng Engineering& Technology Co.,Ltd. under Baosteel Engineering is officially inaugurated. Baofeng Engineering will adhere to the path of product, profession and refinement and make efforts to create a metallurgical ...
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It's reported that Benxi Steel released its price policy for June recently. The company decided to cut the prices for hot rolled plates/coils by RMB200/ton. Also, it reduced the prices for cold rolled sheets/coils and galvanized steel ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It's reported that Japan's Tokyo Steel announced to remain its domestic prices unchanged for June. Also, the company has kept its domestic steel prices flat for consecutive three months. After announcement, its list prices for H beams are ...
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The Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) said that Vietnam's imports of steel products totaled 3.5 million tons in the first four months of this year. The country's import revenues generated by steel products totaled US$2.2 billion. In the given ...
Tags: Steel Products, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
After indicating increasing demand for design services for the better part of a year, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reversed course in April. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the April ABI score was 48.6, down ...
SUFA Technology (SZSE: 000777) announced on May 20 that its controlling shareholder China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) was agreed to swap shares in Guangdong Orient Zirconic. CNNC was agreed by the State-owned Assets Supervision ...
Tags: CNNC, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Ukrainian steelmaker Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works (Alchevsk), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), has announced that in the current month of May it plans to increase its crude steel production by ...
Tags: Alchevsk, Steel Product Output, Metallurgy
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has stated that in May this year it plans to ship around 465,000 mt of flat steel products, up five percent compared to April, including 210,000 mt of hot rolled flat steel. In the January-April ...
Tags: NLMK, Steel Product Output, Metallurgy