According to statistics, the heavy plates sold by the three major steelmakers in Korea, Posco, Dongkuk Steel and Hyundai Steel totaled 679,000 tons in March, falling by 5.5% from a month ago and hitting the lowest level since 2011. Industry ...
Tags: Mineral, Heavy Plate
According to the 2012 review of the steel market published by the European Steel Association (EUROFER), crude steel production in the European Union amounted to 168 million mt in the given year, down five percent compared to 2011. Similar ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
According to the market outlook released by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, demand in the global long steel products market has not indicated the long-awaited increase yet, and is still at ...
Tags: IREPAS, long steel products, Mineral
Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Autumn Edition returns again this year with exciting new opportunities for participants to gain a foothold in China. Now a show about more than just textiles, it is the perfect chance for ...
Tags: Home Textiles, Textiles
MANGO closed the 2012 financial year with a turnover of 1.691 billion euros for the MANGO MNG Holding S.L.U. Consolidated Group and subsidiary companies, a figure that corresponds to R.R.P. sales excluding VAT for company-owned stores, plus ...
According to data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF), Japan's shipments of cold rolled (CR) sheets and strips totaled 533,735 tons in February, rising by 5.8% from a month ago while falling by 3.3% year on year. Among ...
Tags: CR Sheets, steel strip, Metallurgy
Companies in Vietnam sold 7.55Mt of cement in the first quarter of 2013, a 15% rise year-on-year compared to 2013 according to the Ministry of Construction. This occurred despite a year-on-year fall of 30% to 2Mt in March 2013. The country ...
Tags: cement production, cement
In the week from April 1 to April 7, the Turkish scrap index continued to move downwards, while the US (East Coast) HMS I/II scrap export index switched to sideways movement on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish HRC and ...
Tags: Scrap, Steel Index, Mineral
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) along with other stakeholders joined forces to strengthen national and local collaborative efforts to promote, develop, and sustain the growth of the ...
Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) failure in spotting the producers of finished textile goods and collect five percent withholding tax on exports made by them has caused members of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) to ...
Tags: textile goods, textile, Apparel
With the theme “Dream, Believe, Achieve”, the third edition of InFashion kicked off on 20th March 2013 where the three day event brought together the entire textile, apparel and fashion community to exhibit, buy, and source and ...
Tags: fashion extravaganza, apparel, textile
Chairman AEPC, Dr. A Sakthivel, has written to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, on the issue of high cotton yarn prices prevailing in domestic market for export manufacturing. Dr. Sakthivel, in his ...
Tags: Yarn Prices, Yarn, Textiles
The fifth Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) for 2013-14, launched by the Government of South Africa, aims to support the manufacturing of textiles and clothing in the country, along with other sectors. Unveiling IPAP 2013-14, Minister ...
The Indian fiscal year which ended on March 31, 2013, was not a good period for the apparel sector, whether, domestic sales or exports. However, textile goods which include, yarns, fabrics and made-ups did not perform as badly as apparel ...
Shanghai-based Chinese steel giant Baosteel announced on March 29 that in 2012, its annual operating revenue reached RMB 191.136 billion ($30.73 billion), down by 14.1 percent compared to RMB 222.505 billion ($35.77 billion) recorded in ...
Tags: Baosteel, Net Profit, Mineral