Thirteen workers at a U.S. underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico have tested positive for radiation exposure after a recent leak, raising questions about whether the facility's safety systems worked as well as officials have said. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Bedminster, N.J. – Verizon Wireless is responding to recent aggressive pricing moves by rivals AT&T and T-Mobile. The carrier launched More Everything plans to add more data, more Cloud storage, and unlimited international ...
Tags: Verizon Wireless Q4, AT&T, T-Mobile, Competition
Today's headlines include detailed coverage of the Obama administration's announcement that it will delay a health law requirement that mid-sized employers provide health insurance to workers while also allowing larger employers more ...
Tags: Medicaid Managed Care, Health Law, Obamacare, Anti-ACA Sentiment
Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that cumulative production of the Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan) reached four million units on January 22, 2014. The landmark figure was achieved in just ten years and seven months after ...
Tags: Mazda3, Global Production, Mazda Motor
Taiwan technology giant Foxconn group has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $1 billion in Indonesia as it seeks to diversify production away from China, officials said Sunday. Foxconn, also known by its Taipei-headquartered mother ...
Honda de Mexico (HDM), an arm of American automaker Honda Motor, has commenced the production of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at its new $800m automobile plant in Celaya, Guanajuato. This new plant will enable the company to increase its ...
Tags: Honda De Mexico, Fit Production
Australia's Kupang Resources said Friday it was waiting for approval from the Indonesian government to begin exporting manganese ore from its West Timor project following a ban imposed last month on exports of ore containing less than 49% ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Indonesian Project, Mineral
The US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced its preliminary decisions regarding the countervailing duty investigation against rebar imports from Turkey and Mexico, finding no subsidy in Turkish rebar imports. Accordingly, the ...
Tags: Rebar Imports, Mineral
Global crude steel production in January this year decreased by 0.4 percent year on year to 129.78 million metric tons, while a 0.5 percent increase was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013, amounted to 4.81 ...
Tags: Dri Output, Mineral
Gulf Coast propane prices continued to hold a premium over Midcontinent product Wednesday as the market stabilizes into its traditional price relationship. Propane at Mont Belvieu, Texas, was assessed at $1.555/gal on Wednesday while ...
Tags: Propane, Gulf Coast
South Carolina again posted a record year for export activity, with more than $26.1 billion in goods sold last year to 202 countries around the globe. The 2013 figures, released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s ...
Tags: semiconductor, export industries
Eco-friendly vehicles distributor Green Automotive (GAC) is set to acquire American composite materials manufacturer Blackhawk Manufacturing in an agreement. Blackhawk manufactures composite materials at its two plants in Bloomington, ...
The Mexican Ministry of Economy announced Wednesday that it has imposed a final anti-dumping duty on imports of rolled steel plate from Russia, as part of a continuing investigation. Duties were set at 29.3 percent on Russian imports of ...
Now that Mexican President Enrique Pera Nieto has signed the Pacific Alliance between Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica, Mexican steel companies await notice that Mexico is excluded from the application of trade safeguards ...
Tags: Steel Exporters, Mineral