Aluminium is an incredibly popular and versatile modern metal. From the roll of foil that every kitchen can't live without to the super-modern components of fighter jets and sports cars; aluminium is widely used around the globe. ...
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Gallium nitride has been described as “the most important semiconductor since silicon” and is used in energy-saving LED lighting. A new £1million (or US$1,530,700) growth facility will allow University of Cambridge ...
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The 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) in Australia requiring mining companies to pay tax when their annual profits reach $75 million, a measure designed so as not to burden small businesses, raised only A$126 million in the ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that the Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of its Russian Steel division, has commissioned its new coke oven battery No. 7 following a reconstruction project which has received investment of about RUB ...
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In March this year, China’s State Council issued its new regulatory policy on the domestic real estate market, indicating that local governments should issue specific policies based on the State Council’s regulations. As of ...
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According to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Chinese large-and-medium size industrial enterprises released the aggregate gross profits of RMB709.2 billion in the first two months of this year, soaring by ...
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According to the customs statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's stainless flat steel exports totaled 57,000 metric tons in February this year, falling by 19.7 percent compared to the same month of 2012 and up 6.8 ...
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OIL and gas producers Santos and Origin Energy are adamant they can navigate their current periods of high capital expenditure without fresh equity raisings, despite a new interpretation from Standard & Poor's that puts extra pressure on ...
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At its extraordinary general meeting to be held on April 29, Romania-based steel producer Mechel Targoviste will vote for the approval of the change of the company's name to Special Steel Plant (COS) Targoviste. The name had been changed to ...
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On April 2, Anhui Province-based Chinese steelmaker Maanshan Iron and Steel (Masteel) announced that in the first quarter this year it exported a total of 100,000 mt of alloy steel products, including alloy wire rod, alloy H-beam and alloy ...
Marmon/Keystone Canada announced Tuesday the opening the company's seventh warehousing facility near Quebec City. The metals service center offers stainless and carbon pipe, tube and bar products to customers within a 160 kilometer ...
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As of April 1, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 73.21 million mt, up 620,000 mt or 0.85 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of April 1, the Xinhua-China Iron Ore Price ...
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It’s reported that Russia-based iron ore and hot briquetted (HBI) producer Metalloinvest’s net profits totaled US$1.724 billion in 2012, rising by 20.4% from a year ago, according to the international financial reporting ...
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On April 2, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, reported that in February this year the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the European Union member states (EU-27) was 10.9 percent, up from 10.8 percent in ...
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Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) recently announced that in 2012 it registered an operating revenue of NTD 207.19 billion ($7 billion), while its net income amounted to NTD 5.81 billion ($194.5 million). CSC ...
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