Swedish high-technology engineering and steelmaking group Sandvik has announced that it has signed a new five-year strategic alliance agreement with the global pipe and tube producer Tenaris on the exclusive joint supply of ...
Tags: Sandvik, Tenaris, Metallurgy, Mineral
Turkish Steel Exporters Association (CIB) chairman Namk Ekinci has commented on the US countervailing duty (CVD) decision on oil country tubular goods (OCTG) imports from Turkey. "As a result of the pressure by US senators on the Department ...
Tags: OCTG, Turkey, Metallurgy, Mineral
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that it has signed an agreement for a research and development cooperation program for 2014-2016 with Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, ...
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Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending July 11 the US rig count increased again by one to 1,875, following a one-rig increase the week before. The rig count is still up by 116 from 1,759 rigs during the same week a year ago. The gas ...
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For the second quarter of 2014, US-based Quaker Chemical Corporation posted a modest 3.5% increase in net sales to $191.3 million against $184.8 million in the second quarter of 2013. Quaker's adjusted EBITDA rose 6% to around $25.8 ...
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According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, consumption of five of the leading additives for coatings and inks in 2013 was 1.02 million tons, as supplied, worth $4.66 billion. A 5 percent annual rate of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
In the first seven months of the current year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - decreased by 1.3 percent year on year to 702.6 million ...
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Ross Dual-Shaft Mixers enable efficient powder dispersion and convenient batch temperature control in the manufacture of low to high viscosity formulations. Two heavy-duty independently-driven agitators, a high speed disperser and a ...
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Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) has created a monolithic operational amplifier circuit using 4H polytype silicon carbide (SiC) bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) [Raheleh Hedayati et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol35, ...
Tags: SiC SiC BJTs, Electrical, Electronics
China's apparent oil demand* in June turned directions from May and climbed 2.7% versus the same month a year ago to 41.94 million metric tons (mt) or an average 10.25 million barrels per day (b/d), according to a just-released Platts ...
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Texas Tech University researchers recently discovered that low-grade cotton made into an absorbent nonwoven mat can collect up to 50 times its own weight in oil. The results strengthen the use of cotton as a natural sorbent for oil, said ...
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Airline profit expectations for the year ahead are positive even though recent improvements in financial performance have paused, according to IATA's quarterly survey of airline CFO and heads of cargo in July. Recent past financial ...
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BP announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2014. Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter of 2014 was $3.6 billion, 34% higher than the $2.7 billion reported for the same period in 2013 and 13% higher than the ...
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The Government of Iran has issued instructions to oil refineries and petrochemical units to not to reduce their feedstock supply to downstream petrochemical units, reports Shana. The order issued by Iran’s Minister of Petroleum ...
An investment of US$ 33 billion is needed for financing the petrochemical projects that are currently under construction, a senior official of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) has said, reports Tasnim News Agency. Mohammad-Hassan ...
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