Australia's IMX Resources said Monday it will end iron ore shipments from its Cairn Hill mine in South Australia over October-December, a quarter earlier than expected. The company said it moved up the timing from January-March 2015 after ...
BASF increased its energy efficiency by 20 percent compared with baseline 2002 and reduced its greenhouse gas emissions per metric ton of sales product by 34 percent. The number of work-related accidents dropped in the same period by 58 ...
Tags: BASF, Construction Coating
Desmet Ballestra has completed the installation of an oil refining and processing equipment developed by Cavitation Technologies (CTI) at soybean oil refinery in South Korea. The Nano Neutralization equipment is capable of processing more ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are honoring 127 organizations for their commitment to protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency. Recipients of the 2014 Energy Star ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Certification, EPA
Succinity GmbH, the joint venture between Corbion Purac and BASF for the production and commercialization of biobased succinic acid, has announced the successful start-up of its first commercial production facility. The plant, located at ...
PRC, Bearish news continues to dominate the newswires in China. Many pork producers continue to be constrained by negative margins as the industry grapples with oversupply. Meanwhile, the poultry industry remains rocked by the H79N virus ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that, together with Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC), it has completed the acquisition of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, a steel processing plant in Calvert, Alabama, ...
Tags: Thyssenkrupp Steel, ArcelorMittal
Russian coal mining company Kuzbassrazrezugol has announced that a new dressing plant to handle 3 million metric tons of coal per year will be constructed at the Kaltansky opencast coal mine. The new Kaltanskaya-Energeticheskaya dressing ...
Tags: coal mining, Mineral
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in December last year Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 600,517 mt, up 52.56 percent year on year and increasing by 62.91 percent on month-on-month basis. ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Mineral
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that the US imported a total of 3,172,000 net tons (nt) of steel in January 2014, including 2,409,000 nt of finished steel (up 26.6 ...
Tags: Steel Imports, finished steel, Mineral
Southern Coal plans to produce an additional 900,000 st of steam and metallurgical coal this year from two surface mines in eastern Kentucky that have been reopened and/or expanded, according to a senior company official. The Beech Creek ...
Tags: Coal, steam, metallurgical coal
Although Mexico holds second place in Latin America's consumption of rolled steel products, the country recorded a drop of 9 percent in consumption in 2013 compared with the prior year. Mexico consumption of rolled steel--covering long ...
Tags: Rolled Steel, Mineral
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA - which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services - has reported full-year net sales of $3.309bn for ...
Tags: photovoltaic modules, Electrical
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending February 22, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,831,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.3 percent. Production was 1,875,000 net tons in ...
Tags: domestic raw steel production, capability utilization, Metallurgy
Russkaya Stal (Russian Steel), a non-pro t association of Russian domestic steelmakers, has reported that its main member enterprises produced 4.59 million metric tons of finished steel in January this year, up 0.4 percent compared to ...
Tags: Steel Output, exported, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy, Russian