Salt of the Earth, an Israeli salt producer, has invested €1m to launch an enhanced automatic packaging production line for tablets and granular salt products. The company is replacing premade polyethylene (PE) bags with rolls and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Salt, Salt Packaging
According to the Lake Carriers’ Association, US-flag Great Lakes freighters (“lakers”) moved only 3.8 million tons of cargo in April, a decrease of nearly 50 percent compared to a year ago. Heavy ice, especially on Lake ...
Tags: Freight Shipments, Iron ore
The North American net new aluminum mill order index rose 0.32% in April compared with March, according to the Aluminum Association. New mill orders increased 0.02% compared with April 2013, but the year-to-date index slipped 1.16%, the ...
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GT Advanced Technologies (Nasdaq:GTAT) announced that it will be making its next generation ASF®165 sapphire growth furnace, for the production of high volume and high quality sapphire material, commercially available in Q3'14. The ...
Norco has completed a successful trial sending fresh milk to China Australian dairy co-operative Norco has announced it has completed a successful trial shipment of fresh milk to China which will take milk from Australian dairy farms ...
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Australian almond growers may benefit from Californian drought conditions Drought conditions in the US State of California means the quality of the State’s 2014 almond crop remains a “mystery”, according to Californian ...
In the first quarter this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 0.42 percent on year-on-year basis to 1.63 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 55 percent of shipments ...
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy plans to merge with PV module maker Apollo Solar Energy, a subsidiary solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), while GET plans to merge with fellow maker Utech Solar, a Gintech ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, taiwan
The world's second biggest steelmaker Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced its financial results for the full financial year 2013-14 ended March 31, posting a net profit of JPY 242.75 billion ($2.4 billion), ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its ProEficient and ProVantage power amplifiers (PAs) have been selected by multiple Chinese OEMs to enable wireless connectivity in ...
Tags: Smartphone, Electrical, Electronics, Consumer Electronics
Two new analyst reports compete to size up the fast-growing sector. Powered by a growing range of applications, 3D printing – encompassing laser additive manufacturing at the higher end – will become a mainstream production ...
Tags: 3D Printing
Africa's largest steel producer, ArcelorMittal South Africa, has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net profit of ZAR 322 million ($31.1 million), compared to a net loss of ZAR 275 million ...
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MGP Ingredients reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. Net income was $4.7 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, compared to net income of $1.4 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the first quarter of the prior ...
According to a report from the Lake Carriers’ Association, heavy ice formations on the Great Lakes continued to slash iron ore shipments in April. Shipments totaled only 2.7 million tons, a decrease of 52 percent compared to a year ...
Tags: Iron Ore, iron ore shipments
Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, has announced its financial results for the first quarter this year. Regarding the 2014 outlook, ArcelorMittal has lowered its global steel demand growth guidance to 3-3.5 ...
Tags: Steel Demand, steelmaker