United States Steel Corporation announced Monday that it will indefinitely idle two tubular manufacturing facilities in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Bellville, Texas, in early August, impacting approximately 260 employees as a result of ...
Tags: US Steel, Tubing Plants
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) made its final determination Friday in the sunset review of the antidumping orders on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China, Korea, Mexico, and Turkey and the countervailing duty order ...
Tags: Rectangular Tubing, AD/CVD Duties
GDF Suez has signed a sales and purchase heads of agreement with Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power to deliver 270,000 mt/year of LNG over a 20-year period starting in 2018 from the planned Cameron LNG plant in the US, the French ...
Tags: LNG, Tohoku Electric
The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.6 percent in March from February, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation ...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has failed in verifying the accuracy of label claims on meat as well as poultry products that are sold in the US, according to a new report released by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI). Titled ...
Tags: Food Label, Label, Packaging, Printing
The likely impact of LNG exports from North America on wholesale gas prices around the world may put a cap on US exports at roughly 6 Bcf/d, Mike Fulwood, a principal in Nexant's Global Gas practice, said Tuesday. During a briefing on LNG ...
Tags: LNG Exports, gas prices
Scientists at US Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) are developing a new modeling tool to optimize agricultural production. The new platform, known as the Geospatial Agricultural Management and Crop ...
On May 5, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced its affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) from the People’s Republic of China (China), the ...
Tags: Electrical Steel, DOC, Iron, Steel
The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday lowered by 15.2 cents, or 14.01%, to an eight-week low of 93.34 cents/gal, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data ...
Tags: Ethanol, dry-mill ethanol
The US will set up its first strategic gasoline reserve, creating 1 million barrels of storage in the Northeast to protect against storms like Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on fuel supplies in the region, officials said Friday. But ...
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Pacific Ethanol this year will continue to increasing its focus on diversifying feedstock, among its other initiatives, CEO Neil Koehler said Thursday. "Growing initiatives on advanced biofuels, corn oil, expansion of market, which can ...
Chicago Board of Trade May soybean oil futures were down 46 points to 41.42 cents/lb Thursday as weekly data from the US Department of Agriculture showed a significant decline in net export sales. For the reporting week ended April 24, ...
Tags: Soybean Oil, Soybean Oil Futures, net export
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of prestressed concrete steel rail tie wire (PC tie wire) from the People’s Republic of ...
Tags: PC tie wire, Dumping
Semprius Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which designs and makes high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules, has manufactured the first four-junction, four-terminal stacked solar cell using its proprietary micro transfer printing process ...
Tags: Semprius CPV Solar Junction, Solar, Electrical, Electronics, Solar Cell
The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday fell 20.06 cents, or 15.6%, to a six-week low of $1.0854/gal, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data showed. As ...
Tags: Ethanol, dry-mill ethanol plant