Foton Motors released their production and sales data in May this year recently. Foton sold 50,187 vehicles in May, down 10.98% over last year. They sold 12,479 medium and heavy trucks in May, up 3.01% and they sold 33,245 light trucks in ...
Tags: Transportation, Car, Auto, Vehicles
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday that US Class I railroads originated 110,164 carloads of crude oil in the first quarter of 2014, 1.4 percent more than in the fourth quarter of 2013 and, by 1,559 carloads, the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Saputo (Saputo or the Company) reported today its financial results for fiscal 2014, which ended on March 31, 2014. All amounts in this news release are in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated, and are presented according to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
More than half of Asia's gas needs will be supplied by LNG by 2030, Santos Ltd CEO David Knox said Thursday, adding that this will provide the Australian LNG exporter opportunities to grow. Speaking from the Brisbane Mining Club, Knox ...
Tags: Gas, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Queensland's government expects the Australian state's exports of seaborne-traded coking and thermal coal to surpass 200 million mt for the first time in the current fiscal year ending June 30, budget papers released by state treasurer Tim ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Coal
The first quarter of this year was a bad one for Russian steel-consuming industries, Russia's Metal Supply and Sales magazine has reported. Domestic industrial production was up just 1.4 percent compared to the same period last year. There ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Linde Group and BASF SE intended to cooperate in developing and licensing processes for the on-purpose production of linear butenes and butadiene. BASF has developed process technology and catalysts as well as the extraction ...
Members of the Argentinian Biofuels Association, or CARBIO, exported 48,960 mt of biodiesel in April, a 42.4% month-on-month fall and a drop of 42.1% compared with a year earlier, according to data from the industry body Wednesday. CARBIO ...
Tags: Biodiesel Exports, tax exemption
Ford Motor Company, a US-based automotive company, has introduced its Lightweight Concept vehicle, built using advanced materials including new metals, alloys and composites as a part of its research for future weight-reduction solutions. ...
Australia's Atlas Iron in May made its first iron ore sale for delivery into India and is looking to add other Asian and European destinations, it said in a presentation Tuesday. China has been Atlas' traditional offtake market, with the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron ore prices
In the January-May period of this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - decreased by 0.6 percent year on year, according to the State ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Railways
In the first five months of the current year, Turkey's steel exports totaled 7.9 million mt, down 6.9 percent year on year, while the value of these exports decreased by 5.4 percent year on year to $5.9 billion, according to the data ...
Tags: Steel Export, steel
With the LED chipmakers expanding production capacities to meet growing demand for lighting applications, 186-228 MOCVD sets will be shipped globally in 2014, rising 25.7-54.1% on year, according to Digitimes Research. China will account ...
Tags: LED chipmakers, MOCVD Shipments
It’s been said that high-tech manufacturing is experiencing a renaissance, and the US is getting ready to retool its supply chains to compete globally. However, we haven’t been able to give our workforce the skills to fill ...
Tags: CNC machines, control machines
Customers are using less cash than ever as retailers make it easier and more convenient to shop and pay. New data reveals that a growing proportion of smaller payments previously made in cash are now being made in other ways. The ...
Tags: Cash, smaller payments