Higher aluminum prices have prompted some Chinese smelters to abandon production cutbacks and are seen leading to restarts of other plants, chipping away at what was expected to be the first global deficit after years of oversupply. A ...
Tags: Aluminum, physical material, Metal
In August this year, Thailand's total motor vehicle output (excluding motorcycles) amounted to 140,797 units, down 27.08 percent year on year, according to a report released by the Thailand Automotive Institute. On the other hand, ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Automotive
Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first half of the current year, reporting a net loss of EGP 176 million ($24.6 million), compared to a net profit of EGP 302 million in the first half of 2013. ...
Tags: Ezz Steel, long steel
India needs to build a military industrial complex by enlisting large and medium cluster of industries, said BrahMos Aerospace founder Dr. A Sivathanu Pillai at the Deftronics 2014 in Bangalore. Addressing the event organised by India ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
In August this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.82 million mt, increasing by 0.27 percent year on year and by 9.03 percent compared to July, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, domestic market
Indian steelmaker JSW Steel's joint managing director Seshagiri Rao has told CNBC TV18 that JSW Steel will import 10 million mt of iron ore this year, rising from the planned 6 million mt, "after having seen severe shortages in India and ...
The International Trade Practices Unit (UPCI) of the Mexican Ministry of Economy (SE) commenced antidumping procedures for certain pipe and tubular imports from India, Spain and the United States, according to a news release on Tuesday the ...
Tags: steel pipe, carbon steel pipe
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending September 20, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,891,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 78.6 percent. Production was 1,875,000 net tons in ...
Tags: Raw Steel, raw steel production
Nippon Paper Industries will likely report a 25% year-on-year increase in operating profit to around 13 billion yen ($118 million) for the six months ending Tuesday, falling short of a prior projection of 16 billion yen amid soft corporate ...
Tags: Paper, printing paper, Office Supplies
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has predicted that there would be an increase in the demand of Indian textiles in the domestic and global markets. In a statement, CITI chairman Prem Malik said there was a decline in ...
Irish dairy co-operative Dairygold has announced plans to invest €117m in its dairy processing facilities at Mallow and Mitchelstown in County Cork. The investment comes in response to the abolition of milk quotas from April 2015 ...
China’s development of the corrosion-resistant metal tantalum commonly used in electronics has developed rapidly in recent years, owing to local manufacturers’ commitment to research and development efforts, the China Science ...
Tags: Tantalum, Ningxia, Electronics
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in August this year Turkish producers' foreign sales price index (PPI)* in general increased by 1.17 percent from July and was up 9.82 percent year on year, ...
Tags: basic metal, domestic industry
In August this year, South Korea's total automotive (cars and commercial vehicles) output amounted to 272,744 units, down 33.4 percent month on month and declining by 20.6 percent year on year, according to a report released by the Korea ...
Tags: cars, commercial vehicles, Auto Output
In the January-August period of the year, China produced 2.518 billion mt of coal, down 1.44 percent year on year, while it sold 2.4 billion mt of coal in the same period, down 1.62 percent year on year, as announced by the China National ...
Tags: Coal, Coal output, Coal market