It’s reported that the Korean steelmaker Hyundai Steel planned to purchase 1 million tons of hot rolled coils (HRC) in 2014, including 300,000 tons from Japan. It’s estimated that Hyundai Steel might purchase 500,000 tons of ...
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Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending December 6, the US rig count increased by 12 to 1,775, following two-rig decrease the previous week.? However, the rig count is still down by 25 from 1,800 rigs during the same week a year ...
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According to a report from the Lake Carriers' Association, shipments of iron ore on the US Great Lakes totaled 5.5 million tons in November, an increase of 7 percent compared to a year ago.? The November ore float was also 4.1 percent ahead ...
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Privately owned Shagang Group, China's biggest steel scrap consumer, expects to utilize 5.5 million mt of scrap this year -- or about 15,000 mt/day -- an increase of 500,000-800,000 mt, or about 13%, from last year, a company source said ...
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OGX announces that it has begun, yesterday, the production in the Tubarão Martelo field, located in the BM-C-39 and BM-C-40 blocks, through the horizontal well TBMT-8H. In November 29, 2013 the Company received the Operating ...
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The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) along with the State Committee on Standardization, Metrology and Patents of Azerbaijan, will be developing new national standards for the upcoming oil-gas refining and petrochemical production ...
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New Best Wire Industrial, one of the major carbon, alloy and stainless steel wire products makers in Taiwan, said due to the raising demand from China's automobile industry, the company has planned to expand its Suzhou plant's wire capacity ...
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Stainless steel smelting production process commonly used, due to its cutting difficult, so there are parts made poor dimensional accuracy, surface roughness and other deficiencies, so far there are still many technical problems. Compared ...
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If rare earth metals become even more scarce than they are today, the medical device industry could be impacted in a significant way. But according to a paper published in PNAS (via Ars Technica), not much can be done to overcome a shortage ...
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Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, one of the leading global manufacturers of vacuum pumps and systems, signed a contract with a distributor for the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS region. This contract will be the basis for a strategic ...
The picture shows that Mr. Xu Liuping, general manager of China South Industries Group Corporation, gave a car model of Changan as a present to Mr. Xu Lejiang, chairman of Baosteel Group Corporation. Changan - Baosteel Automotive Steel ...
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In the first 11 months of the current year, Ukraine registered a 0.1 percent decrease in its finished steel product output to 26.625 million mt, a 0.6 percent increase in its crude steel output to 30.020 million mt, and a 1.8 percent rise ...
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Reportedly, Jamalco, one of Jamaica's major bauxite and alumina companies said that the industry is undergoing its longest crisis. Compared to six years ago, the metal price today is only half than it. The price of metal on the LME has ...
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Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that the newly rebuilt coke oven battery No. 2 at its Durgapur steel plant has been commissioned. The rebuilding of the battery is a part of the ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that the distribution network of its Russian Steel Division in the January-September period this year increased its sales by five percent and more than doubled its EBITDA (earnings before interest, ...
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