China has unveiled a five-year plan for its emerging shale gas industry as the government seeks to replicate the US success in extraction of the cleaner-burning unconventional fuel. The 2011-2015 plan, made public yesterday by the ...
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China is to extend a probe into imports of European polysilicon, used for making solar panels, by six months, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday, citing the "complicated circumstances" of the case. Solar panels were at the centre of a ...
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The first phase of a coal gasification project in north China is complete and will start to supply gas to Beijing at the end of this year.p The first phase is ready for production after successful tests, said Li Zhichun, director of the ...
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Mexican service center operator Grupo Collado announced this week that net sales fell by 9 percent in the third quarter of 2013 in comparison with the corresponding period last year, as a result of lower steel prices. Sales revenues ...
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The US International Trade Commission (ITC) determined Friday that there is a reasonable indication that the US steel industry is materially injured by reason of imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Mexico and Turkey that are ...
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A few days ago, Baosteel--Tianwei Baobian joint laboratory was established, which is a cooperation model created by Baosteel and Tianwei Baobian in integrated industrial chain on the basis of performance research of oriented silicon steel ...
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Because of the growth of regional trade in September this year, the Brazilian aluminum imports grew 13.5%. According to the Brazilian Ministry of Trade Statistics, Brazil imported aluminum metal is 4420 tons in September 2013, while ...
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Annual inflation in the euro area is expected to be 0.7 percent in October, this year, down compared to 1.1 percent recorded in September, according to flash estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European ...
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Ukraine is going to increase its 2013 quota for imports of metallurgical coke up to 300,000 mt from the current 210,000 mt, and also increase the 2013 quota for coking coal by 1 million mt, the press service of Ukraine's First Deputy Prime ...
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Mexico's integrated steelmaker, Altos Hornos de México (Ahmsa), reported a net loss of 520 million Mexican pesos (US$40.3 million) in the third quarter of 2013. This compares with a net loss of 344 million Mexican pesos (US$26.6 ...
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Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (JISCO) has announced that in the January-September period of the current year its Gansu-based subsidiary Hongxing Steel achieved an operating revenue of RMB 65.809 ...
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Hunan-based Chinese steelmaker Valin Group announced the financial results of its subsidiary Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Co. (Hunan Valin Steel) for the first three quarters of the current year. In the January-September period of the current ...
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Brazil-based steel producer Gerdau SA has reported its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of the current year. In the third quarter, the net profit of the company was R$642 million ($292 million), up 57.4 ...
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Metalloinvest, a leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer based in Russia, has announced its operational results for the third quarter of the current year. Accordingly, in the given quarter Metalloinvest's iron ore ...
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Guangxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Liuzhou Iron and Steel Co. announced that in the first three quarters of the current year its operating revenue amounted to RMB 27.6 billion ($4.51 billion), up 2.83 percent, while it recorded a net ...
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