The rally in the gold price lost some steam on Wednesday, after traders booked profits from the metal's strong showing in February and a stronger dollar curbed demand. In lunchtime trade on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile ...
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BASF increased its energy efficiency by 20 percent compared with baseline 2002 and reduced its greenhouse gas emissions per metric ton of sales product by 34 percent. The number of work-related accidents dropped in the same period by 58 ...
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The OEKO-TEX Standard 100 is a global, third party certification for textiles and apparel that ensures these products are tested for more than 300 substances used in textile production that are considered to be dangerous to human health. ...
Foster Wheeler AG announced that its board of directors has recommended the payment of a cash dividend of $0.40 per registered share, subject to approval by the company's shareholders at the company's annual general meeting, to be held on ...
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Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) in France and EpiGaN nv in Belgium have claimed a record combination of specific on-resistance and breakdown voltage for a double heterostructure field-effect transistor ...
The overall precision surface grinder is a very effective machine tool that is completely capable of very well working to a fine tolerance of plus or minus 0.002 millimetres, or to around plus or minus one ten thousandth part of an inch in ...
The use of semiconductors in optoelectronic applications has had a bit of thickness problem. For photovoltaics, the need for relatively thick semiconductor thin films has added some significant cost to their manufacture. In other ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce late Monday announced a second list of companies that will receive part of the 5,387 mt of export quotas for silver in 2014. The ministry in mid-December released the first list of Chinese producers and ...
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Austrian plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that in the last quarter of 2013 three continuous slab casters were put into operation at Chinese steel producer Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Corp (TISCO). Two of the casters ...
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(Phys.org) —To say that the Joris Laarman Lab is an innovative type of group is putting it mildly. The Amsterdam place is described as "an experimental playground set up to study and shape the future. It tinkers with craftsmen, ...
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Iron ore supply may exceed demand growth rates in China later in 2014 as the nation has recorded slow steel production rates since the start of the year and is currently operating at an annualized rate of 730 million mt, BHP Billiton CEO ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a new continuous galvanizing line for Chinese steelmaker Pangang Group's Chongqing plant. The line will process 450,000 mt of high-strength cold strip ...
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In January this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - increased by 1.2 percent year on year to 96.3 million mt, according to the State ...
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According to a release this week from the Metals Service Center Institute, monthly shipments of steel in both the United States and Canada began 2014 with small gains or losses from January 2013. However, inventory levels were improved from ...
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Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced its financial results for the first half of the financial year 2013-14 ended on December 31. During the half year, Fortescue's net profit amounted to US$1.72 billion, compared ...