Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has posted its financial results for the first nine months of the current year, reporting a net profit of SEK 418 million ($56.9 million), compared to a net loss of SEK 849 million in the corresponding ...
Russian steel producer Severstal has announced that its mining subsidiary Vorkutaugol has commissioned two new cat the Troynoy and Chetvertiy seams at the Komsomolskaya mine. The 612-s face at the Chetvertiy seam is expected to see ...
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OSAKA — Japan’s major electronic components producers, such as Murata Manufacturing and TDK, have been handling record-high order volumes, propelled by Apple’s new iPhone. Orders at six major Japanese manufacturers ...
Tags: Japan, Volumes, Electronics
Every-day low price retailer - Dollar General said it plans to build a new state-of-the-art distribution center in Bexar County in San Antonio, Texas, which will be its 13th facility in its distribution network. Dollar General will have a ...
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Chip suppliers are expected to begin to pull in orders for wafers in order to produce chips for non-Apple device vendors, a move which is likely to start a new round of competition for wafer capacity, according to industry sources. Most ...
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Weak demand saw China's imports of toluene plunged to a near six-year low in August, with market sources expecting the bearish sentiment to prolong for the foreseeable future. China's toluene imports in August fell 73% from the previous ...
Hi-Tech Engineering Industry under Metal & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) has started supplying the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) with locally manufactured smart electric meters, called It-Plus. The meters are centrally controlled to ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Smart Meters
As part of the Angolan Government’s strategy to rehabilitate the domestic textile industry, Africa Textil, a textile mill located in Benguela will shortly commence operations. Africa Textil first began manufacturing activity in ...
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Victorian Shadow Minister for industrial relations, ports, freight and logistics Natalie Hutchins (pictured) is questioning the Napthine Government’s case for the Port of Hastings. "The Napthine Government is determined to proceed ...
The LED industry showed stable growth in first half of 2014, with conventional peak season arriving in 3Q14, many LED manufacturers July 2014 revenues set new historical records including listed companies Everlight, FOREPI and Lextar. LED ...
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ArNoCo, an organisation created by Denmark’s Arla Foods Ingredients and German dairy co-operative Deutsches Milchkontor (DMK), has started production of whey and lactose at the new facility in Nordhackstedt, Germany. The facility, ...
Tags: ArNoCo, Agriculture, Food
For the second quarter of 2014, Canada-based Nova Chemicals Corp, a producer of Olefins & Polyolefins, including ethylene, saw its profit slip to $167 million compared to profit of $201 million for the second quarter of 2013, down 16.91 ...
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BASF today inaugurated its new production plant for mobile emissions catalysts in Sroda Slaska, a Special Economic Zone near Wroclaw, Poland. The grand opening event was attended by a number of national and local government officials, ...
Tags: BASF, new production plant, Decoration
Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has posted its financial results for the first half of the current year, reporting a net profit of SEK 86 million ($12.6 million), compared to a net loss of SEK 281 million in the corresponding period ...
For second-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $14.5m, up slightly on $14.3m ...