Finnish mining and metal manufacturing equipment provider Outotec has issued its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2013. Accordingly, in the fourth quarter the operating profit of Outotec decreased to €25.4 ...
Tags: Finnish mining, Mineral
In December last year, India's industrial production decreased by 0.6 percent year on year, according to government data. Industrial production in the April-December period of the current financial year declined by 0.1 percent year on year. ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
According to the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in December last year increased by 17.3 percent compared to the same month of the previous year following the 15.9 percent year-on-year ...
Tags: Basic Metals, Mineral
According to a report released by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), in January of the current year the producer price index (PPI) for the UK manufacturing industry increased by 0.3 percent compared to December, following the ...
Tags: Basic Metal, imported metals
A Dartmouth-University of Connecticut study of the northeast United States shows that methylmercury concentrations in estuary waters—not in sediment as commonly thought—are the best way to predict mercury contamination in the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Chemicals
There is a big effort in industry to produce electrical devices with more and faster memory and logic. Magnetic memory elements, such as in a hard drive, and in the future in what is called MRAM (magnetic random access memory), use ...
Tags: Electric, electrical devices
Italian plantmaker Danieli has won an order worth$100 million for supply of equipment for new steelmaking facilities to be built in Oman.Renato Pezzano,vice president of Danieli and its sales manager for the Indian market,commented,"This is ...
Prices of copper – the bedrock industrial metal and a benchmark for gauging the strength of the global economy – are likely to soften further in the coming year as production growth is expected to exceed that of consumption. ...
Tags: Softer Copper, Industrial Metal
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will modernize the slab caster No. 3 at the Duisburg-Huckingen plant of German steel producer Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM). The modernization is ...
Tags: Metals Technologies, German steel producer, slabs, steel
In January of the current year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 96,393 metric tons, decreasing by 23.07 percent from 125,291 metric tons in December and down 52.33 percent compared to the same month of 2013, ...
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In January of the current year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland decreased by 4.20 percent compared to the previous month and were up 27.74 percent year on year, totaling 28.23 million metric tons. According to the ...
Tags: iron ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Iron
Brass and bronze are two popular metals those are widely used in across the world in various ways. Basically bronze and brass are both copper alloys but they vary in their composition and thus in their qualities and applications. Brass is ...
Gear is an important component of any machine. It is because of the presence of gears that a machine is able to operate and give the best performance. However, when a gear is manufactured it is available in different shapes. The exact shape ...
Tags: Gear, Cutting Tools, cutting gear, tooth spaces
Despite marked reductions in environmental sources of lead and increased protection from occupational lead exposure, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that lead exposure on the job remains a significant health ...
Tags: Lead, coating, printing, Blood lead
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that it has signed an agreement to divest the Water Treatment business in Africa to AECI, domiciled in South Africa. The total consideration of the sale amounts to CHF 34 million in ...
Tags: Water Treatment Business, Clariant