TenCate recorded a decline in revenues of 7% in the first quarter of 2014, with 2% of this being the result of currency effects. The lower defence revenues had a considerable effect on profitability. TenCate does not consider the ...
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Spot trade of 226, the main aluminum alloy grade, was slow this week, with consumers wary of higher prices, and partly because of the shorter working week. A number of producers have pushed offers of 226 ingot up to around Eur1,700/mt ...
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The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday fell 20.06 cents, or 15.6%, to a six-week low of $1.0854/gal, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data showed. As ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced its production results for the first quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, TMK shipped 1.022 million mt of pipes to customers, down ...
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As reported by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in February this year the total price-adjusted value of new orders in the overall German construction industry rose by 3.2 percent year on year, with a 10.8 percent increase ...
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China's exports of unwrought magnesium, with a minimum magnesium content of 99.8%, edged up 4.4% on year to 24,607 mt in March, and also jumped 107.8% compared with 11,844 mt in the previous month of February, data from the country's ...
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US natural gas prices will remain in the $4/MMBtu range this year while production growth in Appalachian shales will continue to be feverish, a consultant's new study and Barclays said Thursday. The energy consultants at Arlington, ...
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PV stock clearance is nearly ending. Industry demands continued to increase in April and May this year, but orders for June 2014 remain uncertain. Thus, the spot market is still observing supply and demand changes in 2Q14. Meanwhile, a ...
For first-quarter 2014, RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported revenue of $177.6m, down 34% on $267.7m last quarter (due to seasonality plus channel inventory ...
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Interface, Inc., a worldwide carpet tile company and global leader in sustainability, announced results for the first quarter ended March 30, 2014. First Quarter 2014 Financial Summary & Highlights Sales: Sales for the first quarter ...
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Speaking on behalf of World Steel Dynamics (WSD) at SteelHome's 10th Steel Development Strategy Conference held recently in Shanghai, Wu Wenzheng, president of SteelHome, said that WSD's global steel output forecast for 2014 is 1.61 billion ...
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Vivergo, the UK's largest ethanol producer by capacity, said Wednesday that profitability at its 420,000 cubic meter/year (111 million gallon/year) plant at Hull in northeast England has been "adversely affected" by the lowest spot prices ...
Asian benzene prices dropped $19.50/mt Wednesday, pulled lower by a tumble in US benzene Tuesday, but the magnitude of the fall in US prices has nearly closed the arbitrage window from South Korea to the US, according to sources. Spot ...
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US ethanol stocks for the week ended April 18 moved up 566,000 barrels to a seven-week high of 16.518 million barrels, despite a production dip of 29,000 b/d to 910,000 b/d, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. While ...
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Delta Apparel, Inc. reported that for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended Mar. 29, 2014, net sales were $114.5 million versus $120.1 million for the comparable 2013 period. The 5 percent sales decline was due primarily to unseasonably cold ...
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