Hi-Tech Engineering Industry under Metal & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) has started supplying the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) with locally manufactured smart electric meters, called It-Plus. The meters are centrally controlled to ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Smart Meters
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis remained steady for the fourth consecutive week amid thin trade, market sources said Wednesday. Sources said physical buying interest ...
Tags: Copper Cathode, Copper, Metallurgy
New orders to U.S. production plants soared a record 10.5 percent in July on a 74 percent bookings spike in the volatile transportation sector. The somewhat misleading double-digit gain was propelled by an eye-popping 317.3 percent surge in ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Hardware
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has reported revenues of NT$11.42 billion (US$381.82 million) for August, down 1.1% sequentially but up 3.8% on year. For the first eight months of 2014, revenues totaled NT$90.52 billion, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Interpipe Steel, the electric steel-melting complex of Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe, has announced that in the January-August period this year its production of crude steel declined by 25 percent compared to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Crude Steel
Crystalline silicon solar cell makers Neo Solar Power, Motech Industries and Gintech Energy saw consolidated revenues for August slip mainly because shipments to the US market were hindered by anti-dumping tariff rates, according to ...
DB Schenker's new train service from Hamburg to Zhengzhou is about 20 days faster than ocean freight. Claimed to be for the first time ever, DB Schenker, together with the City and Port Authority of Zhengzhou (Province Henan), has started ...
Tags: Freight Train, Ocean Freight
The first group are truck makers with the sales volumes more than 100,000 units one year, including Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Company, FAW, Sinotruk, Foton Auman and Shaanxi Auto. And sales of Dongfeng and FAW can amount to 150,000 in one ...
Tags: Heavy Trucks, Transportation, Trucks
BAIC Foton Motor released the sales reports in August. On sales volumes: they sold 31165 vehicles in August, down 35.28% over last year, among which, 6362 medium and heavy trucks were sold, down 32.43% over last year, and 21268 light ...
Tags: Heavy Trucks, medium trucks
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been exploring the potential of using 'van der Waals epitaxy' (vdWE) to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon [Yazeed Alaskar et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., published online 26 August 2014]. The team ...
According to a report Tuesday from the Lake Carriers' Association, for the second month in a row, shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes reached their highest level in six years.? The 7,242,492 tons loaded in August are the most since ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
UK High Street has now grown for six consecutive months for first time in four years. The UK High Street has grown for six consecutive months for the first time in four years, according to BDO's monthly High Street Sales Tracker. BDO's ...
Tags: Toys
Furniture was the third fastest-growing category in August, building on the strong momentum of recent months, according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. UK retail sales were up 1.3% on a like-for-like basis from August 2013, ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
In the first eight months of the current year, Ukrainian ferroalloy exports increased by 47.2 percent year on year to 640,239 mt, worth a total of $787.752 million, up 37 percent year on year, according to the data issued by Ukraine's ...
Tags: Ferroalloy, Metallurgy, Mineral
Corn prices continue to be dominated by expectations of a very large U.S. harvest. The USDA will release a new forecast of the size of the crop on September 11. The market expectation is that the new forecast will be about 250 million ...
Tags: Agriculture, Corn