It’s reported that Taiwanese Hsin Kuang Steel's second-quarter gross sales profit rate decreased from 9.31% in the first quarter to become 5.17% due to dropping steel market price. However, since Hsin Kuang Steel has done the ...
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It’s reported that Germany’s steelmaker Salzgitter announced to hike its prices for steel flat products by €30/ton, effective from September 1st, driven by higher input costs and better demand. Salzgitter stated that ...
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Industrialists are well aware that unrelenting power supply can only be expected if they pay actual production cost, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Group Leader Gohar Ejaz said, and added that industrialists are ready to ...
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Taiwan-based Gigastorage has completed expansion of production capacity for high-efficiency solar-grade silicon wafers and expects monthly shipments to increase to more than 10 million units later in the second half of 2013, according to ...
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Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has announced its merger with Sunrise Global Solar Energy, a manufacturer of P-type monocrystalline silicon solar cells, through a stock swap where one SAS ...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, raised its ex-works butadiene price effective late Monday, the second hike in four days, end-users said Tuesday. The state-owned company is now offering butadiene at Yuan 8,500/mt, or about ...
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According to report, four major US domestic stainless steelmakers announced to hike prices starting for August shipments. And it is expected there will be another rise for October shipment again. The domestic grade 304 cold rolled coil ...
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It’s reported that Tata Steel announced to hike the prices for coils and plates by €20/ton for European markets. Also, the company increased the prices by GBP15/ton for the UK market. After the adjustment, its ex-work prices ...
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It’s reported that the spot prices of heavy plates did not increase as well after the US steelmaker announced to hike the heavy plate prices by US$33/ton. With the enough stock from the local stockiest, the customers were not ...
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It’s reported that Hebei Steel announced to raise its rebar prices for August deliveries. The company decided to hike its HRB400 rebar with diameter of 18-25mm by RMB100/ton to RMB3,620/ton. Meanwhile, the spot prices for ...
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The expected price hike in electricity rates is expected to hit the profitability, though very marginally, of those cement companies that solely rely on the national grid power and do not have Waste Heat (WH) technology, compared to those ...
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Good rains that are likely to remain strong for the rest of the monsoon are set to keep cement demand under pressure in the ongoing July-September quarter. While demand for cement between May-end and June was supported by pre-monsoon ...
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It’s reported that Korean steelmaker Hyundai Steel announced to hike its export prices for H beams and other sections by US$20~US$30/ton for August orders. After the adjustment, the export prices for H beams are at US$700~US$720/ton ...
Gildan Activewear Inc. announced its results for its third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2013. Earnings were a record for a fiscal quarter, and were at the top end of the guidance range which the Company had most recently updated on May ...
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