In the week ended March 31, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.84 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 1.6 percent ...
Tags: Coal Exports, Newcastle Port
LED pricing declined 5-9% in first-quarter 2014 as distribution channel inventory levels gradually returned to norm and manufacturers stocked up before the China May Day holidays, according to LEDinside. Looking ahead, the firm added that ...
Tags: Ultra HD TV, Lighting Demand, LED 1Q14
U.S. manufacturing grew at a slightly faster pace in March compared with February as factory output recovered from disruptions caused by severe winter weather. Manufacturers also received more orders, suggesting that production could ...
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The spot US benzene contract price for April settled at $4.80/gal ($1,436.64/mt), a decline of 15 cents compared with March's CP, industry sources said Tuesday on the sidelines of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers conference ...
Tags: Spot Benzene, Fuel, Petrochemical
Norway-focused iron ore miner Northern Iron said Tuesday concentrate produced at Sydvaranger was being trialed at further sinter plants in Europe, after inaugural cargoes were bought by ArcelorMital and ThyssenKrupp in 2013. Northern Iron ...
Port Waratah Coal Services' export terminals at Australia's Newcastle port shipped 2.35 million mt of mostly thermal coal to China in March, down 6% from February, the operator said in a report Tuesday. China's offtake represented 26.3% ...
Tags: Coal, thermal coal, coal shipments
US miner Drummond restarted coal loadings from its Colombian export terminal late Monday after its environmental restrictions were lifted following a three-month export ban, the company said in a statement. The miner's Colombian ...
Tags: Export Terminal, US miner, Coal Loadings
American milk producers are enjoying a windfall thanks in part to surging exports to China, Bloomberg reported, citing US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. While the average farm will see a 21% drop in net-cash income in 2014, dairy ...
Tags: Milk Demand, US Dairy Profits
The new Conti EcoPlus HS3 steer tire completes the company's line of third generation fuel efficient truck tires in North America The 2014 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) is over. But there is still plenty to look forward to, says Paul ...
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Coal stocks at China's four major Bohai Sea ports totaled 17.185 million mt on Sunday, down 600,000 mt or 3.4% week on week, Qinhuangdao Port said Monday. Coal stocks at Qinhuangdao Port fell 9.7% week on week to 5.74 million mt on ...
Tags: Coal Stocks, thermal coal, coal shipments
In February this year, Japan's industrial production decreased by 2.3 percent from January and rose by 6.9 percent from February 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, crude steel, Iron
The 3D printing market, including 3D printer sales, materials and associated services, reached US$2.5 billion globally in 2013. Canalys predicts that this will rise to US$3.8 billion in 2014, with the market continuing to experience rapid ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that it has supplied large diameter pipes (LD pipes) for the compressor station at the Yurkharovskoye gas field.? The deposit is located beyond the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel pipe, oil
The Turkish scrap import market moved up Thursday after a flurry of sales by European merchants. With mills still requiring April shipments, a number of bookings were heard in the market. One was confirmed coming out of the UK a couple ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Scrap Market
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that customers have deployed more than 1 ...
Tags: PICs, integrated circuits