US orthoxylene contracts were heard settling at 57 cents/lb ($1,256/mt) for April, down 1.5 cents from March, industry sources said Thursday. There had been expectations in the market that contracts could roll over, with feedstock-mixed ...
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Suek's coal sales dipped in the first quarter as a result of a weaker domestic market, although the fall was partially offset by increased international business, Russia's largest miner of the fossil fuel said Thursday. Suek's overall ...
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Lenovo is leading the world PC market with solid growth in shipments across the first quarter of the year, according to Gartner. All of the top five vendors, except Acer, registered year-on-year shipment growth, with the top three vendors ...
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Deyu Agriculture Corp. (the "Company"), a Shanxi Province, China-based vertically integrated producer, processor, marketer and distributor of organic and other agricultural products made from corn and grains, today announced its financial ...
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Iron ore prices of just under $120/mt are likely to stay flat in the medium term, with some softening expected in the short term, a Sanlam Securities' mining analyst said Wednesday. "There's going to be volatility in the iron ore price as ...
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As of April 7, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 108.28 million mt*, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the Xinhua-China Iron Ore Price Index for imported iron ore with 62 percent ...
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In the first three months of this year, motor vehicle sales in Turkey totaled 122,852 units, decreasing by 24 percent year on year, according to the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD). Meanwhile, in March of the current year ...
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The exports of cotton from Egypt declined by 42 percent in the first quarter of the agricultural season 2013-14, according to the data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Egypt exported 79,600 ...
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Germany is the largest market for Spanish yarn, according to a report by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. In January 2014, Spanish yarn exports to Germany were valued at €6.64 million, showing an increase of ...
Levi Strauss & Co. announced financial results for the first quarter ended February 23, 2014. Net revenues declined one percent on a reported basis and were flat on a constant-currency basis, reflecting lower sales at wholesale in the ...
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The US will export 101 million st of coal this year and 96 million st in 2015, the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday, down from March projections of 103 million st and 99 million mt, respectively. Continued economic ...
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In the first three months of the current year, Turkey's steel pipe exports increased by 2.52 percent year on year to 472,894 metric tons, according to the statistics provided by the Turkish Steel Pipe Manufacturers Association (CEBID). The ...
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Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced its financial and operational results for 2013, reporting a pre-tax loss of €131 million, compared to pre-tax earnings of €9 million in the previous year. In 2013, the ...
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According to a report from the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS), February 2014 showed mixed to disappointing results for US steel exports. “A weaker result in February over January was particularly evident with ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending April 5, 2014, domestic raw steel production was 1,762,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 73.3 percent. Production was 1,834,000 net tons in the week ...
Tags: Steel Production, Iron, Steel