On October 31, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in September this year China's Ministry of Commerce issued iron ore import licenses for a total of 113.20 million mt, valued at $14.228 billion. Meanwhile, in the ...
Tags: Iron Steel, Iron Ore
Because of the growth of regional trade in September this year, the Brazilian aluminum imports grew 13.5%. According to the Brazilian Ministry of Trade Statistics, Brazil imported aluminum metal is 4420 tons in September 2013, while ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Aluminum
Brazil-based steel producer Gerdau SA has reported its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of the current year. In the third quarter, the net profit of the company was R$642 million ($292 million), up 57.4 ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
At least one major steelmaker is making preparations based on rampant chatter in the US market that ThyssenKrupp is poised to sell its Alabama rolling mill (possibly including its Brazilian slab operations) to a triad of ArcelorMittal, ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
It is learned that sales revenue of flat products in the Brazilian distributors network totaled at 409,600 thousand tons, which means a strong increase of 15.8% compare to the same month in 2012. However, according to local steel ...
Tags: Construction, steel, flat
German truckmaker Daimler Trucks has announced plans to invest BRL1bn ($458.6m) in commercial vehicle plants of its Brazilian subsidiary Mercedes-Benz do Brasil in the next two years. The investment will used in the research and ...
Tags: Daimler Trucks, Commercial Vehicle
Sharing experience for the promotion of green jobs can play a key role in helping countries to advance towards a greener and a more sustainable future. This is the aim of the ILO Solution Forum that’s taking place this week in ...
Tags: Green Projects, ILO
It is learned that sales revenue of flat products in the Brazilian distributors network totaled at 409,600 thousand tons, which means a strong increase of 15.8% compare to the same month in 2012. However, according to local steel ...
Tags: steel, Construction, flat products
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has allegedly monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in just one month. The reports, stemming from Spanish newspaper El Mundo, claim that documents provided by former NSA ...
Tags: Merkel Phone-Tapping
In the third quarter of 2013, Daimler AG once again achieved significantly higher earnings than in the prior-year period. The Daimler Group's EBIT for the period of July through September amounted to €2,231 million (Q3 2012: 1,923 ...
Tags: Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz Cars
UK-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an agreement with Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), the Brazilian funding agency for scientific research, to establish a new center of excellence ...
Tags: Sustainable Chemistry, Medicine
The Apparel Export Promotion Council of India (AEPC), the country’s apex body for apparel export promotion is organizing it’s ‘1st Round of Business Fashion’, on October 28 and 29, 2013, in the Brazilian city of Sao ...
Tags: Fashion Business, Textile
It’s reported the shipments registered by the Brazilian independent flat steel distributors and service centers totaled 409,600 tons in September, decreasing by 3.4% from a month ago but rising by 15% year on year, according to flats ...
Tags: Flat Steel, Construction
Brazil heralded this week's auction of a huge oil field as a vindication of its state-dominant approach to its oil riches, but some industry experts say the country must modify its rules before new fields are sold for Brazil to achieve its ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Commercial and Industrial Association of Barcelos (ACIB), in the North of Portugal, has signed an agreement with the government of Brazilian state of Bahia, with the support of local investors to set up the Portuguese firm Polo ...