The EU's long-term lending arm,the European Investment Bank(EIB),has granted€50 million($65 million)to support a new 120 MW hydropower plant and long-distance transmission line in Zambia,with the aim of supplying power to southern ...
Tags: supplying power to southern Africa, EU's long-term lending arm, Zambia
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Mr Alexey Miller chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Mr Yury Boiko Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister. The meeting addressed the prospects for long ...
Tags: Russian gas transit, Ukraine, European consumers, account gas inventory
Business Line reported that the government of Odisha has asked the state's iron ore merchant miners to supply half of their mined lumps and fine to local standalone units. Early, it had directed merchant miners to allocate 50% of the ore to ...
After nearly a 2 year long lull, construction equipment makers are looking forward to early signs of revival of domestic mining and road construction sector. The revival has come at a time when construction equipment market in the rest of ...
Tags: construction equipment, domestic mining, road construction sector
During the SteelOrbis fall 2012 conference&67th IREPAS meeting held in Munich on September 30-October 2,Peter Marcus from World Steel Dynamics(WSD)has assessed the current situation in the world steel industry and provided an outlook for ...
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Business Standard reported that the Odisha government recently found itself in a tight spot over the role of its PSU Odisha Mining Corporation in excess production with the opposition pointing out that the state owned miner had extracted ...
Tags: excess production, OMC, coal Mining
PTI reported that the 300 MW thermal power generation unit of GMR Energy Ltd was synchronized with the grid last week. The company said that the GMR group is setting up two units of 300 MW capacity each at its Warora Plant on Chandrapur ...
Tags: PTI, GMR, power generation
Significant investments and subsidies have enhanced Chinese companies’ capabilities to produce not only LED chips and packaged devices, but also materials and equipment used in LED manufacturing, as TOM HAUSKEN explains. There has ...
Tags: LED
Brazil and Venezuela started the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs in 2005, and the European Union, Switzerland, and Australia started to phase them out in 2009. Likewise, other nations are implementing new energy standards or have ...
Total traded volumes of OTC and exchange-cleared financial coal derivatives in November to 267,896,500 mt, the highest figures since the monthly reports began on February 2011, according to data from London Energy Brokers' Association. ...
Tags: traded volumes, coal derivatives, OTC coal
WA's mining industry has called for full review of resource development in the Kimberley after Premier Colin Barnett appeared to rule out the development of a massive bauxite resource in the region owned by Rio Tinto and Alcoa. Mr Simon ...
Tags: AMEC Australia, WA's mining industry, Premier Colin Barnett, Metallurgy
If analyst are to be believed 2013 certainly augurs well for the coking coal market. Increased steel production projections by 3% touching 1.6 billion tones will catalyze turn around towards the Q2 as the initial days will continue in the ...
Tags: Coking Coal Market, steel production projections, Chinese economy
While shopping for your Thanksgiving edibles this week, you might notice store shelves are already decked out with products and packaging aimed toward the next holiday—you know the one associated with trimmed trees, reindeer and a ...
Tags: Holiday Packaging, Red Bull, ChapStick
Business Line reported that delay in allotment of coal and iron ore mines, increasing imports of iron ore by India and the failure of domestic steel makers to reach production targets so far this year. Affected by different regulatory ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Steel Output, India
Representatives from Infra-Metals signed papers with the Southern Ohio Port Authority on Friday to officially transfer land in New Boston over to the company to build a new USD 13 million steel fabrication and distribution plant. The ...
Tags: Infra Metals, SOPA Board, Metals, Metallurgy