In the January-February period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 130.8 million mt, up 1.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate in question ...
Tags: Metallurgical Coke, crude steel, steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Commercial Metals Company announced last week financial results for its second quarter ended February 28, 2014. Net earnings attributable to CMC for the second quarter were $11.1 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.6 ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Bhaskar Dutta, CEO of the Omani steel and pipe manufacturer Al Jazeera Steel, stated that rebar consumption in the GCC countries is expected to rise to 12 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
The Mexican steel industry estimates that it will invest US$3 billion as a whole between 2014-2016, largely due to positive economic expectations, especially as a result of energy reforms. During an assembly of CANACERO, chairman Alonso ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, GDP
Finland-based stainless steelmaker Outokumpu has announced that the negotiations regarding its industrial plan have been successfully concluded with employee representatives and unions in Germany. The industrial plan was originally ...
Tags: Steel, stainless, Metallurgy, Mineral
Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel Group (WISCO) has signed a cooperation agreement with Zhangye municipal government in China's Gansu Province for the construction of a project which will have an annual output ...
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As metal prices plunged on the eve of the financial crisis in September 2008, Peru's billionaire Brescia family paid about $400 million to buy the world's largest tin deposit in the Amazon jungle. Now their mining company Minsur SA sits ...
Tags: Tin, metal, Metallurgy, Mineral
Vitro Minerals announces the commercialization of a synthetic light weight mineral filler for plastics and sealants that is 10-17% lower specific gravity than traditional fillers commonly used. At 40% filler loading in nylon or ...
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Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has stated that pre-commissioning has started at the construction site of the coal dust injection utility for the West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant of Evraz (EVRAZ ZSMK). The company ...
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ArcelorMittal Brasil, Brazilian subsidiary of global steelmaker ArcelorMittal, has announced its financial results for 2013, indicating that the surplus of global steel production capacity is over 570 million mt, which still presents risks ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Franc Cardona, the marketing and international affairs director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, stated that margins in the long steel product trade ...
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The SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting has started in Barcelona today, March 31, with the participation of over 250 executives, including 101 representatives from 47 steel producer companies and 44 representatives from ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Co. (Ansteel) announced its annual financial results for 2013, stating that it recorded an operating revenue of RMB 75.329 billion ($12.35 billion) for the year, compared to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
In the last five years, the proportion of Australians drinking soft drinks such as colas and lemonades in an average seven days has declined from 56 per cent to 49 per cent, but could it be that more consumers are simply starting to enjoy a ...
Tags: Soft Drinks, Agriculture, Food, beverage
China's Ministry of Transportation (MOT) announced that the overall volume of freight transported on China's railways, roads and waterways in the January-February period of the current year amounted to 6.82 billion mt, up 7.4 percent year ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy