Wolverine Advanced Materials (Wolverine) has acquired the Aftermarket Brake business of Material Sciences (MSC), a subsidiary of New Star Metals for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of MSC's Brake business further expands Wolverine's ...
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In April this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 21.95 million mt, increasing by 14.44 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, Iron Ore
In Sweden, industrial production increased by three percent in April this year compared to March and by 0.6 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the production ...
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In May this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 157,500 metric tons, increasing by 34.24 percent from 117,325 metric tons in April, but down 28.28 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Australia's Port
Ford Motor Company, a US-based automotive company, has introduced its Lightweight Concept vehicle, built using advanced materials including new metals, alloys and composites as a part of its research for future weight-reduction solutions. ...
In the January-May period this year, Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises' revenues from exports of ferrous metals decreased by 2.4 percent year on year to $6.007 billion. In May, Ukraine's ferrous metal export revenues reached $1.379 ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, ferrous export
In May this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 3.54 percent compared to April and were up 29.23 percent year on year, totaling 36.05 million metric tons. According to the information released by Port ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, BHP Billiton
Chinese traders and analysts reacted cautiously Tuesday to news that Qingdao port had halted shipments of aluminum and copper due to a probe into loan irregularities involving stocks in port warehouses. Local media reported Monday that ...
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In the January-May period of this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - decreased by 0.6 percent year on year, according to the State ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Railways
China's Bohai Commodity Exchange, or BOCE, a government-backed online trading platform, has added molybdenum to its list of spot commodities, and this is expected to boost moly trade in the mainland and increase price transparency, industry ...
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The US sheet steel market might be in for another stretch of relative stability, as new upcoming outages balance import pressure and drab demand, market sources said Thursday. One industry consultant said manufacturing -- and thus steel ...
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The European Commission has published a revised and extended list of Critical Raw Materials, based on threatened supply coupled with economic importance. The 2014 list includes 13 of the 14 materials identified in the previous list of ...
Tags: Raw Materials, coking coal
According to a report released by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), in April of the current year the producer price index (PPI) for the UK manufacturing industry remained unchanged compared to March, following the 0.2 percent ...
Tags: Basic Metal, basic iron
China produced around 584,000 mt of refined copper in April, down 1.6% month on month, an official from state-owned nonferrous metals information division Beijing Antaike said Wednesday, citing National Bureau of Statistics data. The ...
A fall in the value of China's currency against the dollar has increased the losses incurred by the country's copper importers in May, Chinese industry sources said Thursday. The US dollar was trading at Yuan 6.26 Thursday, compared with ...
Tags: Copper Importers, metals