Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the US Department of Transportation has announced a grant of $24.9m for a new generation of advanced, non-polluting transit buses through its new Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo). ...
Tags: zero emission transit buses, FTA
According to data released by the US Department of Commerce (DOC), the country's imports of steel products totaled 2.344 million tons in November, falling by 16.7% from a month ago and decreasing by 4.9% year on year. In November, the US's ...
Tags: Construction, Steel
The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.2 percent in November from October, rebounding from a one-month decline to reach its highest all-time level, according to the US Department of Transportation's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to statistics released by the US Department of Commerce (DOC), the country's imports of stainless steel products totaled 100,628 tons in December, jumping by 46.4% from a month ago. Meanwhile, this was the highest level since ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Steel, Construction
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Monday its preliminary determinations in the antidumping (AD) investigations of welded austenitic stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. For Malaysia, the DOC has ...
Tags: Pressure Pipe, Stainless Steel, Preliminary AD Margins
A 20% drop in the price of distiller dried grains, or DDG, after top consumer China turned away two shipments that may contain unapproved genetically modified corn strains are "clearly a negative" for US ethanol producers which rely on the ...
FedEx Express is hybridizing some of its electric delivery trucks. The Memphis, TN-based company is taking part in a US$3 million project being funded by the US Department of Energy. The other participants are Kansas City, MO-based Smith ...
Tags: FedEx Express, electric delivery trucks, Plug Power, hydrogen fuel cell
The value of trade in China's goods in 2013 is set to exceed that of the United States, making the world's second-largest economy the world's top trader for the first time, certainly in modern times. "Judging from the current statistics, ...
Tags: Goods Trader, global goods
The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday dropped 13.58 cents, or 12.47%, to a seven-week low of $0.9535/gallon, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data ...
Tags: Ethanol Output, Chemicals
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping order on welded carbon steel pipe and tube products (standard pipe) from Turkey. The review covered four ...
Tags: antidumping, steel pipe
Smithers Pira, in association with Packaging Digest and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, will bring together leading brand owners; packaging manufacturers, converters and designers; sustainability leaders and more for the 8th annual ...
Tags: Sustainable Packaging, Packaging, Printing
A government and industry team led by engineers from the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) has completed a program to assess, improve, refine and validate a domestic source of supply ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Two solid-state lighting (SSL) manufacturers are among the 12 businesses that will receive clean-energy tax credits ranging from $700,000 to $30m each (totaling more than $150m collectively), the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced. ...
Tags: SSL LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
Japan made landmark progress in 2013 in methane hydrate development -- carrying out the world's maiden offshore production test and later confirming the existence of "substantial" structures containing shallow methane in the Sea of Japan in ...
Tags: Methane Hydrates, Chemicals
China's wheat imports are expected to hit a nine-year high in 2013, as the country continues to turn to the international market to meet a surging demand for the grain for use in high-protein foods, animal feed, industry and processed ...
Tags: Wheat Imports, animal feed