US service centers shipped 121,700 mt of aluminum products in September, up 8.2% compared with September 2012, the Metals Service Center Institute said Tuesday. Aluminum shipments in the first nine months of 2013 totaled 1.122 million mt, ...
Tags: Aluminum, Metallurgy, Mineral, Construction
Despite all the negativity on the news, and the uncertainty involving the US debt ceiling, most trends are pointing to a steadily growing economy that bodes well for trucking's future. That was the synopsis from leading economists and ...
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Wes Armour, CEO of Armour Transportation Systems, today outlined several trends that are shaping the Canadian transportation industry. He was speaking at the Surface Transportation Summit, hosted by Motortruck Fleet Executive, Canadian ...
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Uzbekistan-based steel producer Uzmetkombinat has announced that in the January-September period of the current year its crude steel output rose by 0.9 percent year on year to 580,800 mt. Meanwhile, its rolled steel product shipments in the ...
Tags: steel, Crude Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) announced that it completed a strategic review of its iron castings business and its fabricated components business, two small operations that were part of ATI's Engineered ...
In the third quarter of the current year, the global iron ore production of Australia-based Rio Tinto, the world's second biggest iron ore producer, increased by two percent to 68.3 million mt compared to the third quarter of 2012, setting ...
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Chip resistor supplier Ralec Electronic saw its revenues rise 10% sequentially to a record high of NT$809 million (US$27.56 million) in the third quarter of 2013, powered by shipments of chip resistors for LED lighting applications. ...
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Amid falling prices and rising consumer acceptance, LED technology is taking over the lighting business, spurring a 96% increase in packaged LED revenues in the market from 2013-2016, according to IHS. Global revenues for packaged LEDs ...
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Some Taiwanese LED manufacturers were affected by decreased backlight shipments, which lead to a clear drop in September revenues, according to LEDinside, a green energy research subsidiary of Trendforce. Korean manufacturers still have ...
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Rapid LED price drops for LED bulbs have driven up penetration rates, according to the latest CLSA Asia- Pacific Markets report . Chinese LED lighting market penetration rates for 2014 are expected to increase to 15 percent from 3 percent ...
FoodLink, a US-based supply chain and commerce solutions provider, has announced that a series of new customers have selected its produce traceability (PTI) platform for fresh produce. The new growers and shippers who selected FoodLink's ...
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YC Inox, one of the major stainless steel welding pipe makers and stainless steel flat service centers in Taiwan said that its consolidated sales revenue in this September was NT$2.001 billion which has increased little bit than NT$1.978 ...
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In recent years, TV has shifted from LED to OLED technology, while High Definition (HD) is moving towards Ultra High Definition (UHD), indicating restructure of the global TV industry. Korean manufacturers that are currently the ...
India oil and gas companies are stocking crude and liquefied natural gas as Cyclone Phailin heads for India's east coast, federal oil minister Veerappa Moily said on Saturday. Shipments are being diverted to safer locations, he said. ...
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China's daily imports of crude rebounded in September from the previous month to a fresh record, bearing out forecasts for the country to overtake the United States as the world's largest oil importer, as refineries restarted following ...