Spot trade of 226, the main aluminum alloy grade, was slow this week, with consumers wary of higher prices, and partly because of the shorter working week. A number of producers have pushed offers of 226 ingot up to around Eur1,700/mt ...
Tags: Aluminum Alloy, spot market
Anglo American said Thursday that it increased output of iron ore and metallurgical coal in the first quarter ended March 31, mainly due to a ramp-up in operations. Iron ore production rose 10% year on year to 11.3 million mt on increased ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Coal Output
"Expanding the SoccerStarz line up with leading international teams has always been our objective." Creative Toys' new International SoccerStarz figures are now available to purchase at retailers worldwide. The two inch hand-crafted ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first two months of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 10.8 million mt, up one percent year on year. The highest increases ...
Tags: Finished Steel, crude steel
UK-based mining giant Anglo American Corporation has announced its production results for the first quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, iron ore production from Kumba Iron Ore increased by 10 percent year on year to 11.3 ...
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Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 24.47 million mt in March this year, increasing by 8.13 percent compared to February and up 8.39 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the information released by the Brazilian ...
Tags: Iron Ore, semi-finished products, iron
Coatex and Arkema Coating Resins , two business units of the Arkema group, are celebrating the official opening of their new Latin America application laboratory and technical center in Araçariguama, Brazil on the outskirts of ...
Tags: Construction, Coating, Coating Resins, Resins
Brazil-based car parts manufacturer Torcomp is planning to start construction of a new parts manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, US by the end of 2014. The new factory will be located in the Cumberland Valley Business Park, near ...
Cotton prices continue to move down in the Brazilian market, returning to levels observed in November 2013. The low quality of the product available and refrained purchasers have been pressing down values in the domestic market. ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Brazilian market
Brazil’s Mato Grosso state is likely to end cotton year 2013-14 with a 58.2 percent rise in inventory compared to the last season, according to a press release issued by the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (IMEA). ...
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French carmaker Renault has announced a new investment of R$500 million ($223.5 million) over the 2014-2019 period. This investment will be channeled into the development of two new cars at Renault's plant in Curitiba, in the Brazilian ...
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Global crude steel production in March this year increased by 2.7 percent year on year to 141.34 million metric tons, while a 13.1 percent rise was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
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Latin America's trade deficit with Turkey increased by 55 percent in 2013, mainly due to a drop in the revenues generated by raw material exports and ongoing high levels of finished steel imports from Turkey, according to Alacero, the Latin ...
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Apparel exports from the Latin American country of Paraguay fetched US$ 5.6 million during the month of January 2014, registering a rise of 78.55 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the Tailoring ...
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Arkema has opened a new development and application laboratory at its Araçariguama plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil dedicated to the Arkema Coating Resins and Coatex businesses. Arkema Coating Resins is a business unit of Arkema; Coatex is ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration