The Float Glass term is derived from the manufacturing process where molten glass is poured from the furnace and floated evenly onto a bed of molten tin.The glass is gently cooled under controlled conditions to anneal the glass which ...
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Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto still regarded China as the key driver of iron ore demand due to its continued growth and ongoing urbanization process,local media reported on Saturday. "The growth in China is still there"and its ...
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The China Iron&Steel Association will start publishing a daily iron ore price index from January next year,a CISA official said Friday. But the index was expected to have little impact on trading or prices,market sources said Friday. It ...
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In the first 11 months this year, Georgia's exports of semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel to Turkey, the country's main trading partner, amounted to 58,933 metric tons, totaling a value of $27.58 million, according to the ...
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Australian resources and investment company Cape Lambert Resources has announced that it has finalized a binding infrastructure agreement with Africa Minerals regarding its Marampa iron ore project in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The ...
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This may be remembered as the year smartphones became boring. Although high-definition displays on smartphones have gotten bigger and their cameras have gotten better, the pace of gee-whiz innovation has dawdled. Smartphone and software ...
It is reported that the Korean steel giant POSCO firmly believes that POSCO plant's 3rd Finex iron making facilities under construction will be completed in January next year, as planned. However, two construction workers killed in the ...
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It is reported that the steel mills in India are considering a price hike for about US$15/ton starting from January in 2014 due to the increased domestic railway freight charges which imposed peak session charge from October and raw ...
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According to data released by the American Iron and Steel (AISI), the US steel mills' shipments totaled 8.29 million short tons in October, rising by 5.2% from a month ago and increasing by 11.5% year on year and rising by 5.2% from a month ...
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The Australian government has announced that it has imposed antidumping (AD) duty on hot rolled steel plate imports from Japan, China, Indonesia and South Korea and countervailing duty (CVD) on the same imports from China. The antidumping ...
Xinjiang-based Chinese steelmaker Bayi Iron and Steel Co. (Bayi Steel), a subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Baosteel Group, has announced that it plans to increase the registered capital of its wholly-owned subsidiary Nanjiang Steel ...
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Construction commenced on December 19 on the new sintering plant project of Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Co., the Zhanjiang, Guangdong-based subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Baosteel, as announced by Beijing-based state-owned China ...
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According to a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in November this year the import price of iron ore increased by 19.5 percent year on year in Germany, remaining unchanged from the year on year increase ...
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In the first 10 months of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 1.12 percent on year-on-year basis, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. The country's CR sheet and strip shipments ...
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On December 20, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) announced that it has completed eight tests for hydrogen sulfide-resistance on its X65MS steel for making tube and pipe, marking the ...
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