Chinese rare earth miners are being forced to phase out excessive production capacity as rising overseas suppliers chip away at their dominance in the global market. Russia announced in April its plan to invest $1 billion in rare earth ...
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Anticorrosive coating rule table, the rule of law cathode. But once the anti-corrosion coating is damaged, exposed iron part will accelerate localized corrosion. Therefore, anti-corrosion coating and cathodic protection is relative to the ...
Tags: Spiral Steel Pipe, Construction
In the first 11 months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 1.07 billion mt, rising by 5.22 percent compared to the same period of 2012, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately 99 ...
Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Qingdao Iron and Steel Group Co. has announced that its subsidiary Qingdao Special Steel lately held a signing ceremony regarding new investments with China Sinogy Electric Engineering Co., Hebei ...
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According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 82 percent of total world DRI production in 2012 amounted to 5.31 ...
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Spiral steel pipe seam weld porosity affects not only dense, causing pipeline leak, which will become a point of corrosion-induced, severely reducing weld strength and toughness. Weld porosity factors are: the flux of water, dirt, iron ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that its Cherepovets Steel Mill achieved a record pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI) production volume of 400,000 mt during the January-November period of the current year, up 14.7 percent compared ...
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AK Steel provided guidance for its fourth quarter of 2013 financial results Wednesday, saying it expects to realize net income of $0.02 to $0.06 per diluted share of common stock, excluding the effects of a potential non-cash income tax ...
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Friday that for the month of October 2013, US steel mills shipped 8,287,553 net tons, a 5.2 percent increase from the 7,879,747 net tons shipped in the previous month, September 2013, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Mill
Australia-based iron ore company Centaurus Metals Limited has announced that it has revised the development plan for its Jambreiro iron ore project in Brazil, with a new plan for initial production of 1 million mt per year. The company will ...
Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) has announced that on December 19 it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hunan Province-based Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology ...
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China's average daily crude steel output fell for the third straight 10-day period as it declined 3.7 percent in the first 10 days of December, data from the China Iron and Steel Association showed Tuesday. The daily output stood at 2.013 ...
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Australia's Aquila Resources said Thursday its major shareholder China's Baosteel has increased its ownership to 20% after purchasing an additional 4.6% stake of the Perth-based miner. Baosteel acquired 15% of Aquila in 2009. Aquila ...
As H&M is following the precautionary principle we decided already 2009 to phase out PFCs in our assortment and as of January 2013 we banned the use of PFCs in all of our products. PFCs are used to achieve water repellent function and are ...
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Avrupa Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company has received favorable geochemical results from rock sampling at three different projects in southern Portugal. The projects include the Marateca and Sines licenses in the Iberian ...
Tags: mineral, exploration