Sri Madhusudan, managing director of Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), has said that the company has an ambitious plan to achieve a turnover of around INR 200 billion ($3.3 billion) in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Wednesday first quarter net income of $39 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.8 billion. By comparison, prior year first quarter net income was $48 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, on ...
Tags: Steel Dynamics, Midwest steel
The seaborne iron ore market reversed losses Thursday, as an influx of buying activity suddenly emerged in the spot market. Platts assessed the 62% Fe Iron Ore Index at $116.25/dry mt CFR North China Thursday, up $1.50/dmt from Wednesday. ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Interest Resurfaces, spot market
Chep's first generation retail display pallets were well received. But following a period of significant changes in retail environmentsm Chep wondered if they could be made better. So it asked. It asked both manufacturers and retailers. ...
As China’s growth inexorably slows, manufacturers such as Linan Meite Cable are discovering that being an efficient low-cost producer is no longer enough to prosper. Factories that had thrived by using cheap migrant labor to churn ...
Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com reports in its new publication "Global Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce 2014" that the interconnectedness of the world through the Internet is providing opportunities for online merchants, ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Online Retailers
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has introduced the EPC9016 half-bridge ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
BHP Billiton has lifted its production guidance for Western Australian iron ore to 217 million mt for the 12 months to June 30, up by 5 million mt from its earlier estimate, the Melbourne-based miner said Wednesday. The "relatively ...
Tags: Iron Ore, BHP Billiton
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has claimed a leadership position in point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul with ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, components
Transport Certification Australia (TCA) and Trafikverket (Swedish Transport Administration) have announced, at this week's inaugural meeting of the new OECD Workshop for High Capacity Vehicles in Paris, that the operational pilot of the ...
Tags: Service
The new LED luminaires offer a sleek, attractive appearance and 60 percent greater efficiency compared to traditional high intensity discharge (HID) systems. Designed to replace 50- to 150-watt high pressure sodium, 100-watt metal halide ...
MeadWestvaco (MWV) has chosen to renew its partnership with Xerox for IT management services as the global packaging company continues to grow in targeted packaging and specialty chemicals markets. Partners since 2006, Xerox will extend ...
Tags: Packaging, Xerox, MeadWestvaco
Iron ore prices are likely to drop to $115/dry mt CFR China this year, lower than Q1's $120.68/dmt average, forcing as much as 70-80 million mt/year of high-cost Chinese supplies to shut, Standard Bank said Monday. Iron ore reference ...
Tags: Iron Ore, iron ore demand
Japan's spot aluminum trade remained thin Monday, but market sources said the outlook for construction demand was positive and would boost buying interest if London Metal Exchange prices fall below $1,800/mt. The LME three-month aluminum ...
Tags: aluminum, aluminum ingot
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have approved the Buffalo Sewer Authority's plan to reduce the amount of sewage and stormwater run-off that flow from the city of ...
Tags: EPA, certification