ExcelSoft, a Sri Lanka-based enterprise solutions software company, has recently introduced Foresight, a new performance optimized graphical production planning and scheduling tool, designed specifically to maximize the usage of available, ...
Solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipments from the leading China companies increased 26% on quarter in the second quarter of 2014, compared to the previous quarter when they shipped 5.2GW of solar modules. Nearly three-quarters (71%) of all ...
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IATA reports that air freight volumes were up by a strong 5.8% in July compared to a year ago. This is an acceleration on June, when freight tonne kilometres rose 2.4%, and reflects improving demand conditions in some regions. There was ...
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In the first eight months of the current year, Turkey's steel exports totaled 11.8 million mt, down 5.6 percent year on year, while the value of these exports decreased by 4.3 percent year on year to $9 billion, according to the data ...
Tags: Steel Export, Metallurgy
Foton Motor overseas strategy are blossoming in Africa. And their KD plant in Kenya has finished and the assembly line are over 10,000 square meters with full refitting and test ability. And the new plant is rather important for Foton ...
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Grinding is used to finish workpieces that must show high surface quality (e.g., low surface roughness) and high accuracy of shape and dimension. As the accuracy in dimensions in grinding is on the order of 0.000025 mm, in most applications ...
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Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang) has announced that in the first half of the current year it registered an operating revenue of RMB 14.672 billion ($2.38 billion), down 23.70 percent year on year, ...
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Huntsman Corporation said it saw meaningful improvements across its business, while releasing financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2014, as net income skyrocketed more than 150%, from a year earlier. Net income surged ...
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COLUMBUS, IN — Used Class 8 trucks sold better in July compared to the month before and selling prices remain high, according to data from ACT Research. July sales for lass 8 used trucks were two percent higher than June’s ...
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PRINCE RUPERT, BC — Container ships from China, bound for the U.S., are diverting through Canadian ports to avoid delays from a looming strike at U.S. West Coast ports. According to Bloomberg, Prince Rupert and Vancouver ports have ...
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Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shagang Co. has stated that in the first half of the current year it achieved an operating revenue of RMB 5.302 billion ($0.86 billion), up 2.75 percent year on year, while it recorded a net profit ...
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 3,833,000 net tons (NT) of steel in July, including 3,058,000 net tons (NT) of finished steel (up 6.1 ...
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Australia is experiencing record rural exports, more opportunities from China’s urbanisation, and global supply chains are having an effect on Australia’s export profile, according to the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation ...
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Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has posted a net loss of AU$82.4 million for the financial year 2013-14 ended on June 30, narrowing down from a net loss of AU$107.1 million in the previous financial year, due to increased spreads and ...
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Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji registered a quarter-on-quarter growth of 26.7 percent in its sales revenues in the second quarter of the current year, ...
Tags: MMK, Growth, Metallurgy