Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has posted a net loss of AU$84 million for the 2012-13 financial year ended June 30, down from the net loss of AU$1.04 billion in the previous financial year, primarily reflecting the benefit of the ...
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The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) has announced its preliminary decision regarding the antidumping (AD) duty investigation for hot rolled steel plate imports from China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. ...
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Reportedly, Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet Corporation (NISC) planned to close its cold rolled and pickle plant in order to minimum lost for costs saving. The decision will affect NISC's two mills in west Japan, which monthly ...
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The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) has announced its preliminary decision regarding the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation on aluminum-zinc coated steel and galvanized steel imports from China. The ACBPS has ...
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The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) has announced that it has terminated the antidumping investigation regarding aluminum zinc coated steel imports from Taiwan. The ACBPS has found that there has been no dumping ...
Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (NSSMC) announced that Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet, its subsidiary, has finished the investment to a joint venture with BlueScope from Australia. NSSMC bought the 50% share of the joint venture from ...
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Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced that NS BlueScope Coated Products, its coated products joint venture with Australia-based steel producer BlueScope Steel Limited, has been launched. BlueScope stated ...
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According to report, Australia’s BlueScope and the world’s second largest steelmaker have commissioned their $1.31 billion joint venture in coated products. Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) will invest US$540 ...
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Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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At least 150 workers at CSR’s Viridian glass-making factories in western Sydney confront the closure of their plants and the destruction of their jobs, in the latest of the swathe of job cuts sweeping through the manufacturing sector ...
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The new Xi’an, China-based building materials production plant of Australia’s biggest steelmaker BlueScope Steel will commence production operations in July of the current year, as reported by local media sources in Xi’an. ...
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The Australian steelmaker Bluescope Steel posted a net loss of AUD12 million in the first half of fiscal year 2012/13 ended on December 31st, in comparison of a net loss of AUD530 million in the same period of a year ago. In the first ...
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The sharemarket resumed its upward march yesterday as corporate earnings encouraged investors to continue moving from cash and bonds to equities. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.6 per cent at 5063.4 -- its highest since the ...
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The sharemarket has closed at its highest point since September 2008, led by the major banks. At 4.15pm AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index had risen 29.5 points, or 0.59 per cent, to 5063.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...
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