According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in July of the current year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 10.3 billion ($966.5 million), falling by 6.6 percent ...
Tags: Base Metal, Metallurgy
Even though graphite companies have been ever increasing blips on investors’ radar screens over the past couple of years, the space got a massive visibility and validation boost when the already iconic Tesla Motors announced its ...
Tags: Graphene, Panasonic, Electrical
As part of its US expansion strategy, catalyst specialist Umicore has entered into a long-term agreement to recycle cobalt-containing hard metals scrap from Global Tungsten and Powders Corp (GTP) to produce cobalt fine powders. GTP is a ...
Tags: Umicore, GTP, Electrical
Global mining deals picked up in the first half of 2014 and are likely to continue that way for the rest of the year, a SNL Metals & Mining study released Friday shows. Both the averages of price paid and value of acquired commodities ...
An Australian National University (ANU) team has successfully replicated one of the crucial steps in photosynthesis, opening the way for biological systems powered by sunlight, which could manufacture hydrogen as a fuel. "Water is ...
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in July this year the wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were down 0.7 percent compared to July 2013, following the 0.8 percent year-on-year price ...
Tags: Metal Prices, industrial products
On August 19, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (August 11-17) the overall average finished steel price in China declined by 0.2 percent week on week. In the given week, the average prices of I-section ...
Tags: Finished Steel, I-section steel
Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced its financial results for the financial year 2013-14 ended on June 30. During the given period, Fortescue's net profit amounted to US$2.73 billion, rising 56 percent compared ...
Tags: Fortescue Metals Group, Results, Energy
France's manufacturing output in June this year increased by 1.6 percent month on month, after a 2.3 percent fall in May, and decreased by 0.9 percent year on year, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of ...
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced seven undergraduate and graduate student winners for phase 1 of the National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) Campus Challenge, recognizing exemplary research ...
Tags: EPA, NARS, Service, Certification
Recycling is great when it works. To make it work, recyclable glass has to be separated from all the other material that ends up in recycling bins. In the UK, glass manufacturer, Ardagh, has just signed a fifteen year agreement with ...
Ardagh has three glass manufacturing plants in Yorkshire, and is partnering Reuse to increase the volume of cullet, which has so far boosted recycling for clear glass by 12%. West Yorkshire based Reuse is one of the UK’s leading ...
Tags: clear glass, Ardagh Glass, Recycling Push, Packaging
WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rebounded in June after a May decline, helped by a recovery in demand in a key category that signals business investment plans. Orders for durable goods increased 0.7 ...
Tags: Orders, U.S., Electrical, Electronics
TOKYO — At a recycling center in Thailand’s Chonburi Province, Fuji Xerox disassembles some 4,000 tons a year of its used printers collected from various parts of Asia. Materials are sorted into nearly 90 different types, such ...
Tags: Fuji, Electrical, Electronics
China Industrial Equipment & Components Export Analysis The Export Analysis of China Screws, Bolts, Nuts and Rivets between Jan. - Jun. 2013 The Export Volume and Value Analysis of China Screws, Bolts, Nuts & Rivets between Jan. - Jun. ...