A Heat Generating Material (HGM) concept, developed by Clariant, a producer of specialty chemicals, has received a special mention in the Best Process Innovation category of the ICIS Innovation Awards 2014. “The HGM finds mention as ...
In the January-September period of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 894.76 million mt, rising by 2.07 percent compared to the same period of 2013, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for ...
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In September this year, Germany's crude steel output increased by 12.1 percent month on month to 3.51 million metric tons and decreased by three percent compared to September 2013, according to the information provided by the German steel ...
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Aluminum rolling and recycling company Novelis has opened its first plant in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District in China. The Chinese plant will produce heat-treated aluminum automotive sheet and is expected to have production capacity ...
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Global demand growth for fluorochemicals is forecast to accelerate, rising 3.8 percent per year to 3.8 million metric tons in 2018. Above average growth in higher value products will help drive increases in value demand more than seven ...
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GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
Tags: Domestic Market, China, Decoration
PPG Industries and Henan Billions Chemical Co., Ltd., have held a ceremony to mark the completion of Henan Billions’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) manufacturing and research facility in the Henan Province of China. Scheduled to begin ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending October 18, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,822,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.7 percent. Production was 1,832,000 net tons in ...
Global crude steel production in September this year decreased by 0.1 percent year on year to 134.42 million metric tons, while a 0.4 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
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In the presence of the Republic of Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean Senate’s President Isabel Allende and Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco, cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker ...
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Pexco Medical, a division of Pexco LLC, has purchased through its Spectrum Plastics operation a new 55-ton Roboshot injection molding machine for the purpose of developing new medical tools and advancing its biomaterial processing ...
In September this year, Japanese crude steel production was down 1.1 percent compared to the previous month, while it decreased by 0.5 percent compared to September 2013, totaling 9.24 million mt, according to the data released by the Japan ...
In September this year, Turkey's crude steel output decreased by 3.1 percent year on year and was down by 0.3 percent compared to August to 2.89 million metric tons, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In ...
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Between January and August 2014, China shipped 5.4 million tons of rolled steel to Latin America, 54 percent more than the 3.5 million metric tons in the same period in 2013, Alacero reported this week. Alacero said the demand for steel ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 26.06 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 14.9 percent year on year, according to the figures released by China's Ministry of ...
Tags: Shipbuilding Output, Shipbuilding