According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in June this year the country's mining production decreased by 6.2 percent year on year, while the seasonally adjusted mining production index in June decreased by three ...
Tags: Iron Ore Mining
The market for semiconductors used in industrial electronics applications relished a better-than-expected first quarter as macroeconomic headwinds turned out to be less severe than initially feared, according to the latest Industrial ...
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Nampak Glass has bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of several senior people. Fanie Vermeulen is Operations Director. He has been bottling and filling for more than 30 years. Sales director, Paul Coombe, has 23 years of ...
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First Solar is forecast to install 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of solar or photovoltaic (PV) power systems in 2013, more than double the 516 megawatts (MW) in 2012, according to IMS Research, now part of IHS. This high rate of growth will allow ...
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It’s reported that China’s Hebei Steel has completed the project of buying PMC. Now it becomes the largest shareholder of South African miner Palabora Mining Co (PMC). It buys the 74.5% stake of PMC which was owned by Rio ...
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Sirane managing director Simon Balderson said this is the company's latest step as it expands its business globally and will strengthen its presence in other countries. He explained: "The warehouse has sufficient space to several ...
South Africa-based Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), one of the world's largest coal handling ports, has announced that it exported 6.16 million mt of coal in July, up 16.2 percent from 5.03 million mt in June and decreasing by 1.85 ...
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Packaging design, development and manufacturing company Sirane has announced the opening of offices and warehousing in Cape Town, South Africa. Sirane managing director Simon Balderson said this is the company's latest step as it expands ...
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After more than 20 years of licensing its brand name to an Italian company for use outside of North America, Bell Helmets has reacquired the worldwide rights to its brand in the powersports market. "Our motorcycle helmet business is a ...
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Brazilian government enacted a new law by the end of July, the country's anti-dumping has been modified to make it more consistent with the current environment and more transparent. The new regulation replaces the 1995 publication of the ...
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Africa's largest steel producer, ArcelorMittal South Africa, has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year, reporting a net profit of ZAR 135 million ($13.45 million) in the second ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), following the 10.7 percent month-on-month increase recorded in May, in June this year Turkey's stainless flat steel imports fell by 13.9 percent compared to the ...
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DuPont Pioneer, a unit of US-based chemical firm DuPont, has acquired 80% stake in Pannar, a South African seed firm. Pannar Seed, which has operations throughout Africa and across the world, offers seeds of maize, sunflower, soybeans, ...
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Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials—recently hosted its Lectra Fashion Seminar in Bordeaux-Cestas ...
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Microsoft is expanding the push for so-called "white spaces" broadband to South Africa, where it will help to deploy the technology in a pilot project serving five primary and secondary schools. The pilot project is aimed at getting ...
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