On November 25, major Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. (Baosteel) announced that on November 20 Baosteel-Nippon Steel Auto Sheet Co., the Shanghai-based joint venture of Baosteel and Japan's Nippon Steel Corporation, started ...
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has started construction of a solar project in Kitakyushu-shi, Japan. Generation capacity will be 1.4MWDC, and operation will start in ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp (Japan's leading distributor of oil and other energy solutions) have signed an agreement for the distribution of First ...
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Protech Chemicals Ltd. of Montreal, Canada has reached an agreement with NPA Coatings, a subsidiary of Nippon Paints Japan, to acquire the Seibert powder coatings business. Protech will continue the manufacturing operations in Cleveland, ...
Toyota Motor Corporation showcases its "i-ROAD", an ultra-compact mobility package, as the one of the world's premiere concept vehicles displayed at its Toyota exhibit at the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show. The show, being held at Tokyo Big Sight in ...
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Annual paraxylene term negotiations for 2014 have gotten off to a slow start in Asia, and talks are expected to be protracted, as the supply/demand fundamentals are expected to change significantly halfway through next year, sources ...
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On November 18, Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. (WISCO) announced that a successful hot run test was carried out on November 15 on the electrolytic tinning line No. 1 of WISCO-Nippon Steel Tinplate Co. Ltd, WISCO’s ...
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Japan's production of silicomanganese fell to a record low in September, with market sources attributing this largely to two of the three producers shifting their domestic operations to less power-intensive ferromanganese production and ...
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Columbus Castings, a US-based steel foundry, has collaborated with Japanese rolling stock manufacturer Nippon Sharyo to exclusively provide truck and truck related components for the new bi-level car joint CALTRANS/IDOT project. ...
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Pilkington North America, a subsidiary of Nippon Sheet Glass, has announced it is closing its Lathrop, Calif., plant, which currently manufactures commercial architectural and automotive glass. According to a release from the company, ...
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JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation ("JX NOEX", President: Mr. Shigeo Hirai) is pleased to announce that 5-year extension of Block 15-2 Production Sharing Contract ("PSC") has been granted by the Vietnamese government for our ...
The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes narrowed $19/mt Monday from Friday's level, to $173/mt, a one year-low, as MX was strengthening amid a bearish PX market, Platts data showed. Isomer-MX on an FOB ...
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Reportedly, Norsk Hydro has signed an agreement to sell the aluminum rolling mill in Malaysia to Nippon Foil Mfg. Co., Ltd. (NFM), a wholly owned subsidiary of UACJ Corporation, based in Japan. It’s leaned that the transaction prices ...
The world's second-largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, has raised its financial year 2014's profit forecast from ¥300 billion to ¥340 billion, up 13%. The company contributes the profit forecast rise to cost cut ...
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The world's second biggest steelmaker Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced its financial results for the first half ended September 30 of the financial year 2013-14, posting a net profit of JPY 115.6 billion ...
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