Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSMC) sets to bring up plate prices for domestic sales to reflect the higher raw materials costs caused by the rapidly weakening Japanese Yen. It's known that some US$50/ton extra will be added from May ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Reportedly, Ecuador's steel longs producer Andec is scheduling to double its current output. The mill new 220,000 tpy electric arc furnace already started to produce. In June or July, a new billet casting machine will be commissioned. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
One of the two blast furnaces at Serbia's only steelmaker, Zelezara Smederevo, formerly US Steel Serbia, became operational on Monday, April 22, restoring the company's production after nine months, according to local media reports. ...
Tags: Serbia, One Blast Furnace
As part of its pre-Budget proposals submitted by the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) to the National Board of Revenue (NBR), the BTMA has requested the Government to continue tax holiday for new textile and apparel industries ...
Chilled prepared foods manufacturer Bakkavor has opened a food processing facility and farm in the Fujian and Jiangsu provinces of China, as part of its efforts to boost capacity of its Asian business. The new facilities will complement ...
Tags: Bakkavor, Food Processing Facility
In its quarterly earnings release Thursday, Nucor announced net earnings of $84.8 million for Q1 2013, compared to earnings of $145.1 million in Q1 2012 and net earnings of $136.9 million in Q4 2012. Nucor's consolidated net sales ...
Tags: Nucor, Lower Earnings
While this workstation might look like a cubicle, don’t be fooled. The Docklands line by Bene was designed to offer private workspace in an open office plan. Workers duck in when they need to concentrate and go back into the crowd ...
Tags: Collaboration Station, Furnishing
Wine bottle "Bordolesse Light" is a classic form of wine bottle in improved realisation. The bottle won the hearts of the jury because of its simplicity and lightness. Bordolesse Light is produced by blow-blow technology, but weights by 12% ...
Tags: Glass Factory, Gostomel Glass
For the three days from 27 – 29 March, 6,461 buyers from 52 countries and regions flocked to Yarn Expo Spring to source a variety of yarn and fibre from 194 exhibitors. These buyer numbers represent a 43.5% increase on last year, with ...
SafetyChain Software has announced that Initiative Foods, a US-based provider of organic and conventional baby foods for own brand food retailers, has selected SafetyChain for Food to implement its food safety and quality assurance (FSQA) ...
The Rieter Group held its own in 2012 against difficult market conditions worldwide. Order intake for the year as a whole declined by 12% to 839.7 million CHF, although Rieter received more orders in the second half-year than in the first. ...
Tags: Textile, Rieter Group
The Loro Piana Challenge Cup yesterday celebrated in Hong Kong the finest Merino wool bale produced in 2012, in a competition between Australia and New Zealand. After 14 Australian wins, affirming the leadership of the Australian wool ...
Tags: wool industry, Apparel
Wacker Chemie AG is strengthening its presence in South America, and inaugurated its expanded technical center, including training center, near São Paulo, Brazil. The new regional competence center for South America combines research ...
Tags: WACKER, Technical Center
Since the launch of a new round of land resources surveying by the Ministry of Land Resources (MLR) at the beginning of the 21st century increased, and the Chinese government has been increasing investment in domestic geological ...
China, the largest textile producing country, is planning to develop textile raw materials, such as olefin and polyester, using coal in order to reduce its dependence on imported petroleum, according to South Korea- based recent report by ...