According to the preliminary statistics provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, in December 2012 Brazil's flat steel exports totaled 208,581 metric tons, rising by 15.8 percent year on year and down ...
Aquapolo Ambiental has won the National Water Agency (NWA) Award in the ‘Company’ category for its Aquapolo Project. The annual award recognises initiatives that contribute to the management and sustainable use of ...
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Brazil's national statistics agency, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE), has reported that Brazilian industrial production fell 0.6 percent month on month in November 2012, following the 0.1 percent increase recorded ...
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Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 32.25 million mt in December 2012,decreasing one percent compared to November and down by 5.2 percent compared to the same month of 2011,according to the preliminary information released by the ...
Business News Americas reported that scheduled to be sent to the Brazilian congress in April 2011, the country's new mining regulatory framework is still waiting for the government to draw up three bills to regulate the sector. The report ...
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Ms Tatiana Prazeres, the interim minister of development, industry and foreign trade said that the 5.3% decrease in Brazilian exports in 2012 occurred primarily due to declines in international commodity prices, a shrinking European market ...
Eagle x-ray inspection equipment detects and rejects foreign body contaminants including metal, glass, stone, bone, plastics and rubber in food products. The US-based firm said that Brazil’s food exports are expected to increase ...
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NICKEL is on track to end 2012 as the worst performing base metal and 2013 doesn't look much better. In fact, the only hope for existing nickel producers is that some of the emerging operations strike technical problems in their ...
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Brazil's national statistics agency IBGE has announced that the producer price index (PPI) for Brazilian manufacturing in November last year increased 0.25 percent from October and rose 6.6 percent from November 2011. In the country's ...
According to a report issued by Brazilian auto dealer association Fenabrave, the country's sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles grew more than expected in 2012, increasing by 6.11 percent in comparison with 2011, totaling ...
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It is learned that Brazilian steel sector expecting a relief of its cost structure for 2013, which is able to reduce the deficit registered in 2012. Last year, the federal government released several measures in favor of local steel sector ...
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Sindisider,the Brazilian steel distributors'association,released a report stating that Brazilian steel distribution companies sold 4.04 million tonne of flat products in the January-November period of 2012,1.9%higher compared to January to ...
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According to the statistics provided by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals in October this year Brazil's iron ore exports amounted to 26.9 million metric tonne,rising by 22.5%YoY and up three ...
German conglomerate Siemens'IT and engineering subsidiary in Brazil,Chemtech has successfully ended a consultancy developed for Brazilian aluminum producer CBA,part of local conglomerate Votorantim,in the municipality of ...
Tags: Chemtech, Automation of CBA Aluminum Plant, Sao Paulo State
Cementos Molins has sold 10.61% in its Argentina-based unit Cementos Avellaneda to Votorantim Europe for Euro45.2m. Following the deal Cementos Molins retains 51% in the company and Votorantim Europe, part of Brazilian group Votorantim, is ...
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