Da Shuhua is a 300-year-old tradition practiced during the lantern festival in Nuanquan town, Hebei province. It has been selected as the provincial cultural intangible heritage. Performers throw over 1,000 degree molten iron onto the cold ...
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China imported 9,942 tons of polysilicon in September, the highest-ever monthly level with on-month growth of 18.7%, according to the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA). Of the import volume, 6,415 tons or 64.52% came ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Nonferrous Metals
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NAIST) has claimed the highest breakdown voltage to date for a diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) [Hitoshi Umezawa et al, IEEE ...
On October 21, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (October 13-21) the overall average finished steel price in China rose by 0.5 percent week on week. In the given week, average prices of high-speed wire rod ...
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JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has collaborated with UK-based Amada (a manufacturer of machine tools for metal fabrication) to develop a new direct diode laser (DDL) that provides up to 2kW of output power. The DDL has been integrated into a new ...
The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 3.8 percent year on year to 172.35 points in September, although it was the highest reading since January. The CPI for watches, meanwhile, rose 1.9 percent to 125.29 points, marking ...
The Dong ethnic minority regards silver as the most precious of metals, and out of which the most dazzling jewelry is made. Families begin amassing silver jewelry, comprising corollas, hairpins, combs, chaplets, necklaces, bracelets, rings ...
Tags: Wedding Gowns, Precious Silver
In September this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.0 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on October 21, with this growth rate 1.1 percentage points higher than ...
U.S. consumers who purchase gifts during the 2014 Christmas season anticipate spending an average of $596.53, according to the National Retail Federation's (NRF) annual holiday intentions survey. The anticipated figure represented an ...
Tags: Jewelry, Precious Metals
In August this year, India's industrial production increased by 0.4 percent year on year, according to government data. Industrial production in the April-August period of the current fiscal year (started April 1) increased by 2.8 percent ...
Tags: India's Basic Metal, Output, Energy
According to a report from the Metals Service Center Institute, US service center steel shipments in September 2014 increased by 8.3 percent from September 2013. Steel product inventories increased 16.4 percent from September a year ago. At ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, one of the leading global suppliers of liquid and powder coatings, has announced the expansion of its global product portfolio to include Alesta ZeroZinc, the next generation of zinc free anticorrosion primers. These ...
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Orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount on record, but the drop was heavily weighed by an expected plunge in volatile aircraft orders. A key category that tracks business investment plans posted a small increase, ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in August this year increased by 11.7 percent year on year and was down 0.7 percent month on month, following the ...
Tags: Basic Metals, metal product
According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in August of the current year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 9.77 billion ($865.62 million), decreasing by 6.2 ...
Tags: Base Metal, Metallurgy, Mineral