China’s chemical project in Kunming, capital city of Yunnan province, is still being discussed and evaluated for setting up a project for production of paraxylene or PX, company officials of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) said ...
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Everybody knows USTER STATISTICS – the globally-established benchmarks for the textile industry. But how are they used in practice, and how do they influence the fabrics and garments we all wear every day? To put it another way, what ...
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Indian steel giant Tata Steel has announced that it expects to register an impairment charge of $1.6 billion for the financial year ended March 31, 2013, as a result of its review for the period in question. The company attributed the ...
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As of May 13, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 71.905 million mt, indicating an increase of 1.095 million mt or 1.55 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China’s Xinhua News Agency. As of May ...
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There is definitely a positive upward trend in residential home building. After years of weak demand for new construction, builders in most regions of the country are finally seeing more activity, bidding more work and signing more ...
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Another month has passed in which demand in the global long steel products market has failed to show the long-awaited recovery, according to the market outlook released by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long ...
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Engraving or embossing is a technique that requires polished skills on the part of an embosser so as to achieve the perfect result. The art of embossing is highly useful to mark the objects that are the raw materials, tools or the end ...
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Component engineering is an engineering discipline primarily used to ensure the availability of suitable components required to manufacture a larger or huge product. The term combines two ideas: • A component--a smaller, ...
China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan is going to release its list prices for electric furnace (EF) Al-killed wire rods for June. Industry sources predicted that CSC might cut its list prices for EF Al-killed wire ...
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Want a Green Do-It-Yourself Floor? A "floating floor" sounds like Staying Alive meets Star Trek, but is nothing space age or related to disco. It simply refers to the fact that this type of floor is not nailed, stapled, or glued down but ...
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Bakery ingredients firm British Bakels is splashing out 2.5M on new plant, equipment and premises at its Bicester site, bosses have revealed. Bakels’ investment programme includes this new tumble mixing system, supplied by Matcon, ...
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The world's largest steelmaker Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has announced that it is targeting cost cuts of $3 billion by the end of 2015. As of March this year, the company had achieved $200 million in cost improvements. According to ...
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Before we get to talking about bamboo cabinets, let's find out more about the raw material for these cabinets, the bamboo. The very well-known and popular plant of bamboo is actually a group of perennial plants which belongs to the grass ...
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It’s reported that the Taiwanese steel pipe makers are going to release its export prices for July. It’s said that the Taiwanese steel pipe producers planned to cut export prices by US$30~US$40/ton for July. China Steel Corp. ...
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Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has officially opened its first seaport, Wugan port, in Zhoushan in China's Zhejiang Province, as reported by local media. WISCO contributed 51 percent of ...
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