Bangladesh, the second largest readymade garment (RMG) manufacturer in the world after China, is witnessing a dip in new investments in the field of textile in last two years. Bangladesh apparel makers are worried about the shortage in ...
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Metallurgical business industry association announced, metallurgical enterprises in Ukraine in 2013 need 6.7 million tons of scrap metal. Metallurgical business industry association and the Ukraine Metal Recycling Association formulated ...
Tags: Scrap Metal, scrap, pig iron
Gerdau announced Monday the company's majority ownership of its first plant in Asia at Tadipatri, Ananthpur District, Andhra Pradesh, India and change of the operation name from Kalyani Gerdau to Gerdau. In 2007, Gerdau entered into a ...
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According to the latest data released by the Brazilian Institute of Non-ferrous Metals (ICZ), the country's nickel production amounted to 4,867 mt in February this year, faling 15.5 percent compared to January and down 14.1 percent compared ...
Tags: Nickel Output, Metallurgy, Mineral
At the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa on March 15, Sinan Sozen, executive vice president of Borcelik, one of Turkey's leading cold rolled coil and galvanized sheet producers, said that the ...
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In the week from March 11 to March 17, the scrap indexes moved downwards on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to decline after four straight weeks of upward movement. The Black Sea HRC export index ...
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It’s reported that Korean Dongbu Steel’s sales volumes of cold rolled (CR) steel products totaled 168,000 tons in February, decreasing by 16.3% from a month ago. Among them, 101,000 tons were for domestic market, decreasing by ...
According to report, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSMC) announced that it will raise domestic H-beam prices for March by ¥5,000/ton to bring the price to a profitable level. The company also decided to raise the prices by ...
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It is reported that Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (NSSMC) planned to extend its current production capacity in order to meet the strong demand in Domestic market. The company has indicated the country’s steel annual ...
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In January this year, Japanese galvanized sheet output increased by 9.3 percent compared to December 2012 and was down 0.5 percent year on year, amounting to 986,592 mt, according to data from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF). ...
Tags: sheet shipments, sheet output, galvanized sheet inventories
Ukraine-based Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has stated that in March it plans to ship around 100,000-105,000 mt of plates, up 40-41 percent compared to February, and ...
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in the January-February period of the current year its subsidiary Xuanhua Steel exported 33,235 mt of wire rod (all SAE grade), accounting for 19.6 ...
The share of innovative enterprises in the Vladimir region markedly increased. In absolute terms, these figures: in 2012, 18 plants commissioned in 2013 is scheduled to earn another 21 companies. Volume of nano-two years increased from 2.8 ...
The 3rd edition of Milano Unica China will take place, as part of Intertextile Apparel Fabrics, in the Milano Unica Pavilion, an emblem of production and exhibition quality in typical Italian style. Spring/Summer 2014 collections of 128 ...
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In Sweden, seasonally adjusted industrial production decreased by two percent in January compared to December last year, and was down 7.8 percent year on year in calendar adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). According to ...
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