According to a statement released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (DCUD), in 2012 Turkey's finished steel production reached 34.3 million mt, up by 7.3 percent year on year. However, due to the global economic ...
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Reportedly, Turkish group Toscelik has announced to start its new rebar mill cold run last week in Oran, Algeria. The company has indicated cold tests for the rebar rolling installations are expected to start at the end of this week and ...
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Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) reported late Monday that Q4 2012 net income of $61 million on net sales of $1.7 billion more than doubled earnings of $30 million on sales of $1.9 billion in Q4 2011. Q4 earnings were ...
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Buoyed by the government s efforts to focus on infrastructure investment and the intensifying demand for building materials, particularly concrete and cement, the construction sector in Oman is experiencing an industrial boom. At Omanexpo ...
According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 71.8 points in December last year, increased by 12.2 ...
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According to the information provided by Spanish Automobile and Truck Manufacturers' Association (Anfac), in 2012 new commercial vehicle registrations in Spain declined by 23.1 percent year on year to 14,699 units. In December last year, ...
Tags: commercial vehicle, Automobile, Truck
Taiwan's industrial production index in December 2012 climbed by 2.4 percent as compared to December 2011 after rising by a revised 5.9 percent year on year in November, and was down 2.55 percent month on month, according to the country's ...
Tags: basic metal output, basic metal, basic metal manufacturing
According to study report of CARE Research, India’s steel demand could have annual growth by 6.7 % until financial year 2016-17, which is faster than the expected growth in Chinese during the same period. In line with domestic ...
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According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in November last year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-27) decreased ...
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According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in November 2012 amounted to 7.2 million metric tons, ...
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If there’s one specific phenomenon that holds out hope for the future, it’s the one that’s surfacing as this year draws to a close – the desire for a change. That’s it; precisely this collective desire, shared ...
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Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end-products and primarily in windows and façades for buildings, windscreens and windows ...
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(Muscat, Oman) -- On the back of increased government spending on infrastructure and mega projects, demand for cement is expected to grow at higher pace this year. In the Oman budget for 2013, RO 600 million has been earmarked for roads ...
Tags: Cement, Cement Demand, Further Rise
The U.S. construction sector, in addition to the overall economy, will continue to accelerate at a mild pace throughout 2013, according to the ITR Trends 10 report from ITR Economics. “2013 will be better than 2012,” says Jeff ...
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The trade deficit for November widened to $2.6 billion, from $2.4bn in October, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. That was the biggest monthly shortfall since March 2008 and wider than analysts' expectations of $2.3bn. At 5pm AEDT ...
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