U.S. cotton demand for 2014/15 remains projected at 13.4 million bales or 5 percent below the 2013/14 estimate. Exports account for 9.7 million bales while mill use contributes the remaining 3.7 million bales. Despite higher U.S. ...
Tags: Cotton Demand, textile industry
Rhino Resource Partners soon will make its first shipment of high-sulfur steam coal from the new Pennyrile underground mine in Western Kentucky to Louisville Gas & Electric, a Rhino official said Monday. Pennyrile, also known as ...
Tags: Steam Coal, high-sulfur steam coal
Platts Australian alumina assessment closed the week at $310.50/mt FOB, decreasing $1.50/mt from Thursday, weighed by sluggish demand, the higher cost of credit in China, and concerns relating to counter-party risk. The assessment was down ...
Tags: Alumina, Qingdao port
US service centers shipped 136,300 mt of aluminum products in May, up 3% compared with the same month in 2013, the Metals Service Center Institute said Tuesday. Shipments in the first five months of 2014 stood at 669,900 mt, up 8.6% from ...
Russian gas exports to Europe via Ukraine are continuing as per normal at about 185 million cubic meters/d, despite an explosion Tuesday afternoon at a Ukrainian gas pipeline, Gazprom deputy chairman Vitaly Markelov said Wednesday. "Gas ...
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China Shenhua Energy, the listed subsidiary of the Shenhua Group, produced 25.2 million mt of commercial coal in May, down 5.6% from a year ago but up 4.1% from April, the company said late Tuesday. The company's coal sales stood at ...
Tags: Commercial Coal, Coal Sales
Shipments of x86 servers in the China market during the first quarter of 2014 totaled 350,000 units, up 22.9% on year. Meanwhile, factory revenues of x86 servers during the quarter reached US$1.07 billion, growing 24.5% on year. ...
Tags: Server Market, x86 Servers
MicroSense LLC of Lowell, MA, USA, which supplies dimensional non-contact wafer metrology equipment for manufacturing silicon, compound semiconductor and power devices as well as magnetic metrology systems for MRAM (magnetoresistive ...
Tags: LED, LED Chip, LED component
China TV vendors' sales to markets outside of China are expected to grow 40% on year in the second quarter of 2014. In April 2014, LCD TV shipments from China's top-six vendors to markets outside of China reached nearly 2.09 million, up ...
Tags: LCD TV, Average Size TV
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that for the month of April 2014, US steel mills shipped 8,235,096 net tons, a 1.2 percent decrease from the 8,337,578 net tons shipped in the previous month, March 2014, and a ...
Tags: Steel Shipments, Steel
According to official data, the Mexican government has stopped the export of about 300,000 tons of iron ore (totaling US$30 million) since March from four ships: one containing 68,000 tons, two ships with 100,000 tons each, and a fourth ...
Tags: Iron Ore Ships, iron ore
PC unit sales declined 10% in 2013 for the second straight year of contraction, as the computer market contracts and swaps PCs for tablets and smartphones. Bishop tracks 11 companies in the computer market sector and 10 companies in the ...
Tags: PC, Computer, Tablets, Smartphones
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) on June 10 reported consolidated revenues of NT$267.97 billion (US$8.89 billion) for May, slipping 8.99% on month and 10.82% on year, and NT$1.45 trillion for January-May, rising on year by ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Economy
According to a report Monday from the Lake Carriers’ Association, iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 6.4 million tons in May, a virtual repeat of a year ago. The total would have been about 600,000 tons more, but three ...
Tags: Iron Ore Shipments, Great Lakes
Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials, due to booming demand for PV silver paste, has seen output short of total order volumes by 30% currently, according to company chairman Chen Chi-jen. Giga Solar shipped 40 ...
Tags: PV, Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy