Canadian contractors took out $6.8 billion worth of building permits in November, down 6.7 percent from October. This decline follows an 8.0 percent gain the previous month. Despite this monthly decrease, the total value of permits ...
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Shanghai Province-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel) has announced that in 2013 it achieved an operating revenue of RMB 190.3 billion ($31.2 billion), down 0.62 percent year on year, while it recorded a net ...
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In December last year, China exported 5.37 million mt of finished steel, up 10.72 percent year on year and increasing by 370,000 mt compared with the previous month, while in the whole of 2013 China exported 62.34 million mt of finished ...
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According to a new study issued by the Latin American steel association Alacero analyzing the situation in Latin America in relation to indirect steel trade, namely, the exchange of manufactured steel-containing goods, manufacturing ...
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Turkey-based special steel producer Yükselen ?elik A.?. has announced that it has acquired Istanbul-based Ramateks Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret A.?., part of Russian steelmaker Mechel. The acquired company operates in the special steel ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it has completed the upgrade of the converter and the continuous caster of German-based steel producer Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. In order to improve the metallurgical process, the specific ...
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Europe's largest coking coal producer Poland-based Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa SA (JSW) has announced that it has established a new coke subsidiary JSW Koks SA, based in Zabrze in Silesia in southern Poland, in which it has a 95.71 percent ...
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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 ...
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In December last year, Ukraine-based steel mill Donetskstal Metallurgical Plant (DMZ) produced 122,000 mt of pig iron and 3,500 mt of rolled steel products, according to the company's preliminary results. In the whole of 2013, DMZ saw a ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.2 percent in November from October, rebounding from a one-month decline to reach its highest all-time level, according to the US Department of Transportation's ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Thursday that for the month of November 2013, US steel mills shipped 7,604,428 net tons, a 9.0 percent decrease from the 8,287,553 net tons shipped in the previous month, October 2013, ...
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Zinc coating on galvanized steel pipe surface corrosion technology to arc spray application is the most common application prospect is very broad, which is characterized by arc spraying equipment, both live wire is heated, melted, atomized, ...
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PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has reported consolidated revenues of NT$583 million (US$19.4 million) for December, hitting a record for the fourth consecutive month with growth of 13.4% on month and 211.03% on year. The ...
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Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power generated December consolidated revenues of NT$2.406 billion (US$80.2 million), hitting the highest since March 2011 and increasing 3.12% sequentially and 300.18% on year. Solar-grade ...
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According to Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), the country's finished steel output would rise slightly by 3.8% year on year to reach around 71.62 million tons this year, boosted by positive effective of economic ...
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