The chief operating officer of Premier Foods plc, Geoff Eaton, has left the company as incoming CEO Gavin Darby takes up his new role. The UK group said it had opted for a "flatter management structure" after appointing former Vodaphone ...
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United States Steel Corp publicly unveiled Thursday a $500 million revamp of its Clairton, Pennsylvania coke works that aims to reduce pollution. The new coke battery has been operational since November 2012. In 2008, the company ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,30 commodities increased in prices, 13 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 31/01/2013.The largest rises were Nickel (1.57%),Silver (1.24%),Zinc (0.72%),while the largest ...
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Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced that its crude steel output in 2012 increased by seven percent to 6.532 million mt compared to 2011. In 2012, Mechel saw a 12 percent year-on-year increase in its ...
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,28 commodities increased in prices, 15 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 30/01/2013.The largest rises were Nickel (1.35%),Zinc (1.34%),Mild steel plate (1.22%),while the ...
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China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (January 21-27) the average steel price in China increased by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. In particular, in the given week prices of 80 mm x 43 mm ...
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On Tuesday, West Chester, Ohio-based flat rolled steelmaker AK Steel reported a net loss of $230.4 million for Q4, following a $60.9 million net loss in Q3 and a $193.9 million loss in Q4 2011. This was AK Steel's sixth consecutive ...
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Commodity Sectors 01-28 01-29 Change PET Rubber & plastics 11300.00 11200.00 0.89% PTA Textile 8750.00 8700.00 0.57% Chloroform Chemical ...
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The world’s leading steel and mining company ArcelorMittal announced that it will close a coke plant and six production lines in Belgium. Due to the collapsing demand and sick European economy, ArcelorMittal has made it to stop ...
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Russian State Statistical Commission published output of steel rolling products in 2012 is 61,800,000 tons, growing by 8.2% year on year, crude steel is 70,400,000 tons, growing by 3.3percent and cast iron is 50,500,000 tons, growing by ...
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Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal and coke sales for the first quarter of 2013. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,22 commodities increased in prices, 19 fell and 58 remained unchanged on 25/01/2013.The largest rises were Hydrochloric acid (0.81%),Acrylic acid (0.69%),Iron ore ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,20 commodities increased in prices, 20 fell and 59 remained unchanged on 24/01/2013.The largest rises were Phenol (1.50%),Coke (0.79%),Color coated sheet (0.68%),while the ...
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According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in 2012 Russia registered a four percent rise in its rolled steel product output to 61.8 million mt, a 3.3 percent increase in its crude steel output to 70.4 million mt and a ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,26 commodities increased in prices, 18 fell and 55 remained unchanged on 23/01/2013.The largest rises were Methanol (0.71%),Color coated sheet (0.68%),PC (0.49%),while the ...
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