A nationwide overhaul of oil pipelines launched after a fatal explosion in Qingdao, Shandong province, has found hazards in many areas that could lead to similar incidents, according to the country's top work safety watchdog. The overhaul ...
Tags: Oil, Oil Pipelines, Oil Pipelines Defects
In the first 11 months of last year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip output decreased by 0.66 percent year on year to 5.99 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. Meanwhile, in the given period ...
Tags: CR Sheet, Strip Shipments, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
EMS provider Lite-On Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$20.182 billion (US$673 million) for December, increasing 2.97% sequentially and 16.07% on year. Fourth-quarter 2013 consolidated revenues reached NT$59.231 billion, ...
Tags: Lite-on Technology, Lighting
Textile exports from the south Central American country of Bolivia exported textiles worth US$ 26.3 million during the January to November 2013 period, indicating a fall of 50.47 percent year-on-year, as per the data released by National ...
Tags: Textile Exports, raw materials
Daisy Bicking, a farrier based in Parkesburg, Pa., has been documenting horses' hooves for more than a decade. Over this time she has built a database of around 200,000 hoof images and radiographs-many of which belong to horses suffering ...
Tags: Horses, Rehabilitating Horses
Macy's, Inc. announced that its comparable sales, together with comparable sales from departments licensed to third parties, rose 4.3 percent in the 2013 holiday shopping season the months of November and December combined compared with the ...
Tags: Macy, comparable sales, rise, holiday shopping season
ShopperTrak estimated that, during the holiday shopping season of November and December 2013, national retail sales increased 2.7 percent although foot traffic decreased 14.6 percent when compared to the same two months last year. The ...
Tags: ShopperTrak, holiday shopping season, retail sales, increase
Japan's real gross domestic product for November rose a seasonally adjusted 0.1% from October, marking the fourth straight monthly rise, according to an estimate released Dec. 27 by the Japan Center for Economic Research. Personal ...
Tags: Japan GDP, Straight Month
Those who closely watch the Canadian transportation mergers and acquisitions scene have been bemoaning a lack of activity thus far in 2013. That silence was shattered in mid-November, beginning with the blockbuster acquisition of Yanke ...
Tags: Canadian, transportation, acquisition, merger
According to the statistics released by the US International Trade Commission (US ITC), in November last year exports of iron and steel scrap from the US amounted to 1.24 million mt, decreasing 6.17 percent from October and down 10.58 ...
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in November last year South Africa's manufacturing output rose by 0.3 percent compared to the same month of 2012, while the seasonally adjusted manufacturing ...
Tags: Iron and Steel, Steel Output, African Steel
According to a statement released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), in the January-November period last year Turkey's scrap consumption decreased by 5.6 percent year on year to 28.23 million mt, due to the 3.2 ...
Tags: Scrap Usage, Steel News, Steel Scrap
In November last year, Turkey's stainless flat steel imports decreased by 0.48 percent compared to the previous month to 39,445 metric tons, following the 4.95 percent month-on-month decrease recorded in October, according to the data ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Flat Steel, Steel Imports, Turkey Steel News
In November last year, Japan's iron and steel product exports amounted to 3.39 million metric tons, decreasing by 4.3 percent year on year and up by 2.5 percent compared to the previous month, while Japan's iron and steel product imports ...
Tags: Iron and Steel Product, Steel, Steel News
According to the report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in November last year industrial producer prices decreased by 0.1 percent in both the euro area and in the European Union member states ...