European market prices of the key grade of aluminum alloy, 226, slipped back by a further Eur10/mt ($14/mt) this week as buyers could take their pick of offers in a well-supplied market. "It's very calm. Last week there was a lot of ...
Tags: aluminum alloy, European market
In the January-February period this year, the volume of metallurgical coke exports from China's Shanxi province indicated a 12.4-fold year-on-year increase to 262,000 mt, according to the customs authorities in Taiyuan, capital city of ...
Tags: Coke, Energy, Mineral, Metallurgy
Trader procurement continued to boost spot demand in the Asian iron ore market, as trades got concluded at increasingly higher levels on the day, supporting a firming market. The Platts 62% Fe Iron Ore Index rose $2.75/dmt to $111.50/dmt ...
Tags: Iron Ore Market, spot demand, steelmaker
Projected 2013/14 world wheat production is up 0.8 million tons this month to 712.7 million, further raising the historical record. In Australia, 2013/14 production is up 0.5 million tons to 27.0 million this month. The harvest in Australia ...
Tags: Wheat, cereal, Agriculture
China imported 379,000 mt refined copper in February, down 29% from January but up 27% from February 2013, General Administration of Customs data released Monday showed. Industry analysts Tuesday attributed the month-on-month fall to ...
The installation was for a new company set up to serve the whole southeastern region of Asia. When Thai businessman, Pongsakorn Pongsak established the General Beverage Company Limited in his home country, he was entering the beverage ...
Henkel Corporation has introduced a new, water-based reactive autodeposition coating, Bonderite M-PP 930C™, formulated specifically to deliver a uniform, defect-free surface coating on raw cast components and ferrous metals. This ...
Tags: coating, Construction, Decoration
Kronos Worldwide, Inc. reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2013 of $2.9 million, or $.03 per share, compared to a net loss of $18.1 million, or $.16 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2012. For the full year of 2013, Kronos ...
Swiss-headquartered iron ore miner Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced its financial results for 2013. In the given period, Ferrexpo's net profit increased by 20.6 percent to $263.7 million ...
Tree Island Steel Ltd. announced Tuesday its financial results for the three-month and full-year periods ended December 31, 2013. For the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, revenues increased to $35.7 million on 27,295 tons, ...
Tags: Tree Island Steel, Construction market, Commercial Construction market
France must urgently implement new rules to oblige shippers to import LNG after new gas capacity auctions indicated a massive increase in prices in France's southern PEG Sud market in the coming years, intensive users group UNIDEN said late ...
Tags: LNG Imports, gas capacity, LNG terminals
China and Tajikistan plan to start construction on the so-called D line on the Central Asia-China gas pipeline network this year, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Monday. This comes after both countries signed a deal to ...
Tags: Gas Pipeline, Mineral
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released January performance data showing a strong rise in air freight growth compared to a year ago. Global freight tonne kilometres (FTK) rose 4.5% in January compared to January 2013. ...
Tags: Air Freight, Service, Logistics
Coal shipments to South Korea from Port Waratah Coal Services' terminals at the Australian port of Newcastle slumped 55% from January to 993,000 mt in February, the company said Thursday. The drop comes after Port Waratah's terminals ...
Tags: Coal Imports, Newcastle Port, Coal shipments
Coles sells a lot of bottled water. Its own brand of bottled water comes in 24 pack cartons sold for $8. There's almost no personal cost to wearing this decade's hot fashion accessory. The environment is wearing the cost. So Coles is doing ...