THE sharemarket drifted in patchy trade to close marginally lower yesterday, rounding out an otherwise positive week that was characterised by improving sentiment towards the resources sector. BHP Billiton rose 2.8 per cent and Rio Tinto ...
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BASF is taking a number of steps to strengthen the competitiveness of its Performance Products segment. The segment bundles BASF’s businesses with chemicals that improve the properties of many different end-user products. The ...
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The sharemarket has closed slightly lower despite commodity stocks staging a comeback. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.9 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 5097.5 points. The broader All Ordinaries index was down 1.5 points, or 0.03 ...
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The stockmarket has opened slightly higher, boosted by stronger mining stocks on the back of improved prices for commodities. At 10.31am AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17.6 points, or 0.34 per cent, at 5120.0 points. The ...
According to media report that Azerbaijan government has officially determined in presidential order to set up the state owned Azerbaijan Steel Production Complex that will possess the production capability from iron ore mining and ...
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Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has temporarily shelved plans to support a competing currency, litecoin, the company said Thursday. Mt. Gox, which is the largest bitcoin exchange, has been battling ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...
Finnish mining and metal manufacturing equipment provider Outotec has issued its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Accordingly, in the first quarter the operating profit of Outotec increased to €31.7 million, up 14.85 ...
Materials and biophysical characterization company Malvern Instruments Ltd. and Netzsch Grinding and Dispersing have entered into a cooperative marketing agreement. Both organizations serve a broad range of market sectors from ...
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There's a new movement to create a mechanism to certify and track coloured gemstones from their countries of origin. It began with a meeting a couple weeks ago in Hong Kong led by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice ...
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it has opened new sales offices in Toronto, Canada and Santiago, Chile to serve its special steel customers in the Americas. Opening these new sales offices is in line with Ruukki's ...
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A valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically valves fittings, but are ...
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According to report, Russian mining and steelmaking group sees its crude steel output to reached 3.86 million tons in April- June quarter, about 4~5% rise from January-March quarter. The company just reported its first quarter output was ...
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Hong Kong-based conglomerate CITIC Pacific has announced that it is delaying completion of its $8 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia until late May because of engineering problems, the latest in a series of setbacks to plague ...
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Swedish high-technology engineering and steelmaking group Sandvik has issued its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, stating that global demand for Sandvik's products displayed a mixed trend during the first quarter. Some ...
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A historic settlement announced today with the Kerr-McGee Corporation and certain of its affiliates (“New Kerr-McGee”), and their parent Anadarko Petroleum Corporation will greatly benefit environmental cleanups at the Welsbach ...
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