Indonesian cement sales increased by 5.6 per cent in 2013, less than half the rate of growth of 14.5 per cent the year before, due to slower demand particularly outside the main consumption hub of Java. Domestic cement sales for the ...
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Bermudagrass hay prices in Arkansas have stalled out, says grower Jamey Styles, pictured here with his wife, Angela, and their five children.Photo: Styles Farms A supply glut coupled with slack demand has bermudagrass hay prices backing ...
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The need of different types of raw ingredients for the iron manufacturing industries is always there. Iron and steel manufacturing industries play a pivotal role in the industrial field, as this is not only a labor intensive field, where ...
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Coal stocks at China's four major Bohai Sea ports totaled 16.645 million mt on Sunday, up 1.05 million mt or 6.7% week on week, Qinhuangdao Port said Monday. Coal stocks at Qinhuangdao Port rose 3.8% week on week to 5.815 million mt on ...
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US coal production totaled about 18.8 million st in the week that ended Saturday, the Energy Information Administration said Thursday. The production estimate is 5.8% higher than the previous week's estimate and 2.1% higher than in the ...
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Scientists studying the atmosphere above Barrow, Alaska, have discovered unprecedented levels of molecular chlorine in the air, a new study reports. Molecular chlorine, from sea salt released by melting sea ice, reacts with sunlight to ...
US cement industry energy consumption in 2012 decreased by 2.1 per cent against 2011 levels, the recently released annual Labor-Energy Input Survey by the PCA indicates. This energy decrease occurred despite the third consecutive year of ...
European nations stand sharply divided over setting new 2030 targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, EU sources said Friday. European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso called in commissioners to try to ...
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Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News U.S. intermodal shipments by rail grew 4.8% in the week ended Jan. 4 compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported. Traffic grew to 186,875 units, AAR said in its ...
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TAG Oil Ltd. (the "Company" or "TAG") (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF) is pleased to provide the following exploration and development drilling update in both the shallow and deeper targets within the Taranaki Basin. As TAG enters calendar ...
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India's coal imports via major ports across the country dropped 4% month on month in December, to around 12.2 million mt, data released late Tuesday by Indian ship broker Interocean showed. In November, imports totaled 12.7 million mt. ...
Freight rates for shipping coal from northern China's Qinhuangdao port to the other Chinese ports of Zhangjiagang, Shanghai and Guangzhou continued to drop in the week to Tuesday, the fifth week in a row, Qinhuangdao Port said Wednesday. ...
A total of 311 U.S. and international environmental and clean energy groups said today that, while they respect the climate change work of Dr. James Hansen and three of his academic colleagues, they take strong exception to the notion that ...
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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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Power plants that use natural gas and a new technology to squeeze more energy from the fuel release far less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than coal-fired power plants do, according to a new analysis accepted for publication Jan. 8 ...
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