The global automotive plastics industry is in boom mode today. Improvements in vehicle design and the ongoing trend toward lighter weight for improved fuel efficiency have led to greater demand for engineering plastic components. A recent ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Auto
In July this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume decreased by 11.94 percent year on year to 233,879 metric tons, and declined by 13.1 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel Billet
In the first eight months of the current year, Ukrainian ferroalloy exports increased by 47.2 percent year on year to 640,239 mt, worth a total of $787.752 million, up 37 percent year on year, according to the data issued by Ukraine's ...
Tags: Ferroalloy, Metallurgy, Mineral
Corn prices continue to be dominated by expectations of a very large U.S. harvest. The USDA will release a new forecast of the size of the crop on September 11. The market expectation is that the new forecast will be about 250 million ...
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According to news reports, Fort Wayne, Indiana-based stainless steel producers Valbruna Slater Stainless and Valbruna Stainless filed a petition Monday with the US International Trade Commission, seeking to block imports of certain products ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, stainless steel
According to the statistics released by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, in the January-July period of this year France's basic steel product and ferroalloy exports amounted to a value of €5.75 billion, increasing ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel Product
Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced its decision in the antidumping (AD) duty investigation of cold rolled stainless steel imports from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Taiwan. The ministry has decided that cold rolled ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, AD Duty
In the first seven months of this year, Russia's ferrous metal export volume increased by 7.5 percent year on year to 22.861 million mt, worth a total of $12.1 billion, up four percent year on year, according to the State Statistics ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Mineral
South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 61,137 mt in July this year, decreasing by 40.9 percent compared to June and down 38.8 percent from ...
Tags: Carbon, Alloy Steel
In August of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $367.094 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 4.0 percent, according to the Chinese customs authorities on September 8. In the given period, the total ...
Taiwan photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers have received rush orders since the end of August, leading to higher utilization rates and boosting optimism among Taiwan PV producers about demand in September. Yet Chinese demand remains weak as ...
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China-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers, considering that China government's temporary ban on polysilicon imports through export processing zones to block evasion of anti-dumping and anti-subsidization taxes is likely to ...
Although China has placed a moratorium on polysilicon imports through its export processing zones (EPZs), the measure has yet to show much impact on product pricing, according to PV industry sources in Taiwan. PV firms outside China had ...
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In the January-July period of this year, motor vehicle sales in Turkey totaled 367,340 units, decreasing by 23 percent year on year, according to the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD). Meanwhile, in July of the current year ...
Tags: Auto Exports, motor vehicle
The Antidumping Commission of the Australian government has announced that it has postponed the final decision date regarding its antidumping (AD) duty investigation for imports of hot rolled (HR) structural steel sections from Japan, South ...
Tags: Structural Steel, AD Duty