Japanese automotive parts maker Bridgestone Group has commenced the construction of its new passenger car radial tire plant in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. With this move, the company is seeking to meet this demand growth with local ...
Tags: Passenger Car Tire, Tire, Tyre, Auto Parts
SemiTEq of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, which designs and manufactures high-vacuum and ultra-high-vacuum (UHV) equipment including molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) deposition systems, has launched a new generation of physical vapor deposition ...
Tags: PVD PECVD Etch MBE, Electrical, Electronics
In the first two months of this year, Turkey's scrap imports moved upwards, after decreasing 12 percent in 2013 compared to 2012, according to the report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In the given ...
Tags: Scrap, Metallurgy, Mineral
Russian pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced that its Russia-based Chusovoy Steel Works (ChSW) stopped producing steel through its open-hearth furnaces on March 31. The halt of the last open-hearth furnace ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, pipe
Based on the Commerce Department's most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of March total 3,485,000 ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
In 2013, the net loss of Russian steelmaker Ashinskiy Metallurgical Works (Ashinskiy) increased by 10.5 times compared to 2012, rising to RUB 755.5 million ($21.4 million), according to Russian media sources. The reasons for the surge in ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
In the January-March period of the current year, coal production in Russia went up by 0.4 percent year on year to 85.85 million mt, including 28.75 million mt of coal produced in March, according to Russia's Central Dispatching Department ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
German automaker Daimler is planning to produce Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in Russia, in a move aimed at expanding its global production network for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. In a statement, Daimler said: "We have been looking at ...
Tags: Daimler, Mercedes-Benz, Passenger Cars
Miner BHP Billiton expects India to lead future demand growth for coking coal, as Chinese imports steady while global competition from suppliers in Australia, Russia and North America intensifies. The world's biggest seaborne coking coal ...
Tags: Coal Demand, coking coal, coking coal miner
NYMEX May crude settled $1.84 lower at $99.74/barrel Tuesday on expectations of another build in US crude stockpiles and bearish data from China and Europe. ICE May Brent settled $2.14 lower at $105.62/b. The Brent-WTI spread settled at a ...
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Ukraine's National Committee for Power Regulation (NCPR), the government's energy sector regulating body, said on Monday it has moved to increase average natural gas prices for industrial consumers by 29.1% starting April 1. The committee ...
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Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat has launched a new pyrolisis furnace at its Monomer petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, in the Urals region of Russia, and expects its ethylene and propylene output this year will increase by around 13%, ...
Tags: ethylene output, ethylene
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that it has supplied large diameter pipes (LD pipes) for the compressor station at the Yurkharovskoye gas field.? The deposit is located beyond the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel pipe, oil
Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced the completion of the deal announced on March 19 for a pre-export finance facility (PXF) with a club of international banks in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Italy’s textile machinery sector displays its latest technology to Russian textile manufacturers at a technology seminar to be held in Ivanovo on 9 April. Raffaella Carabelli (President of ACIMIT): “Italian businesses are ready ...