AK Steel provided guidance for its fourth quarter 2014 financial results, indicating that, despite incurring approximately $31 million in costs associated with a planned Ashland Works blast furnace outage, the company expects to report ...
Tags: expenses pertaining, shipment, Metallurgy
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK and the Cambridge Centre for GaN (part of University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) have grown cubic GaN on 3C-SiC on silicon wafers by metal-organic chemical ...
Tags: green LEDs, silicon wafers, Electrical
China Sulphur Export Volume and Value, from Jan. to Dec. 2013 Month Volume (Kg) Value (USD) Year-on-Year Volume Value Jan. 102,000 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Sulphur
Combined coal stocks held by six major power generation companies in eastern and southern China averaged 14.19 million mt in the week ended November 18, up 0.8% week on week, Qinhuangdao Port said Thursday. Based on the current rate of ...
Tags: coal stocks, coal, Metallurgy
In September this year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production increased by 0.6 percent both in the euro area and the EU-28 as compared with August, while industrial production in August had decreased by 1.4 percent in the euro area and ...
Tags: Industrial Output, Metallurgy
US Steel Canada announced Monday that it will lay off at least 56 workers following its decision last week to idle its Hamilton coke ovens. According to local news reports, the idling will eventually affect about 100 of the plant’s ...
Tags: coke ovens, Metallurgy
Although ThyssenKrupp stated in August that it planned to invest up to BRL 450 million (US$197.4 million) in Brazil between 2013 and 2016, reports this week indicate the company has adjusted that figure to BRL 2 billion ($814.1 million). ...
Tags: ThyssenKrupp, Metallurgy
According to the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), in the January-August period this year the overall sales revenues of China's 88 large and medium-size steelmakers - all CISA members - totaled RMB 2.4142 trillion ($393.19 billion), ...
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German steelmaker ThyssenKrpp has announced that its blast furnace No. 2in Duisburg-Schwelgern, Europe's biggest blast furnace, is back in operation after three months of a halt in production to carry out necessary modernization work. The ...
Tags: Blast Furnace, Metallurgy
The spot price of South Africa-origin charge chrome (48-52% Cr) was assessed by Platts at 79-80 cents/lb CIF on Friday, down from 80-81 cents/lb CIF China a week ago, on slow demand and ample supply. A deal was confirmed at 80 cents/lb ...
Tags: Ferrochrome, Chrome Import, Metallurgy
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-July period of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 40.5 million mt, up one percent as compared with the same period ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Finished Steel
Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (Ilyich), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that in September it has commenced a large-scale general repair ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron, Steel
Russian exports of stainless steel products in the January-August period of this year decreased by 66.5 percent year on year, according to Russia-based SpetsStal Association. In particular, in the given period exports of stainless billets ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in August this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit increased by 13.5 percent to $8.36 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Ioannis Meimaroglu from Helveco Intertrade, the chairman of the raw materials suppliers committee, stated that the increasing volume of exports from China due ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Raw Material