Higher aluminum prices have prompted some Chinese smelters to abandon production cutbacks and are seen leading to restarts of other plants, chipping away at what was expected to be the first global deficit after years of oversupply. A ...
Tags: Aluminum, physical material, Metal
For a lot of U.S. farmers, a relevant number may have passed unnoticed this year. The USDA reveals that China imported a volume of 84,000 tons of sorghum in 2011/2012. Just two years later, during the 2013/2014, the Asian giant imported 3.4 ...
Tags: Sorghum, US growers
PPG Industries’ coil and building products coatings group has launched DURANAR ADS (air-dried system) fluoropolymer coating, a newly-formulated product that surpasses the performance of the original Duranar ADS coating. The ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed standards under the Clean Water Act to help cut discharges of dental amalgam to the environment. Amalgam is a mixture of mercury and other metals that dentists use to fill ...
Tags: EPA, Clean Water Act, dental amalgam
In August this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.82 million mt, increasing by 0.27 percent year on year and by 9.03 percent compared to July, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, domestic market
In the 21st century, society is increasingly aware of the environmental and social performance of supply chains and consumers. Twenty-two metals and mining companies and 32 national and regional mining associations and global commodity ...
Tags: Metals, Mining, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Austrian plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will expand the annual capacity of the heat treatment line of Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de México S.A.B de C.V. (AHMSA) at the company's Monclova plant. ...
Tags: Siemens, carbon steel plates
Henkel has introduced Loctite 4090, an innovative hybrid adhesive that combines the key features of structural and instant adhesives - bond strength and speed. This powerful combination provides high impact resistance, high strength bonding ...
Tags: Henkel, Loctite 4090, Construction
PPG Industries’industrial coatings business has introduced POWERCRON ADVANTEDGE electrocoats (e-coats), a line of next-generation, high-edge cationic-epoxy products for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) markets. Powercron ...
Tags: PPG, EMEA Markets, Construction
Press Release: Fairtrade International has launched a public consultation on its standard for gold and associated precious metals for artisanal and small-scale mining to explore how Fairtrade can best tackle new regulation and legislation ...
In August this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.9 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on September 13, with this growth rate 2.1 percentage points lower than ...
Tags: value-added industrial output, NBS, industrial sectors
In July this year, India's industrial production increased by 0.5 percent year on year, according to government data. Industrial production in the April-July period of the current fiscal year increased by 3.3 percent year on year. ...
Tags: Basic Metal
China's silicon metal exports for 2014 are expected to be slightly above 800,000 mt, up from 600,000-700,000 mt projected earlier in the year, an analyst from state-owned nonferrous metals information provider Beijing Antaike said Friday. ...
Tags: Silicon Metal, Metal Export
On September 10, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (September 1-7) the overall average finished steel price in China was down 0.3 percent week on week. In the given week, the average prices of high-speed ...
Tags: finished steel, nickel, non-ferrous metals