Australia-based South American Ferro Metals Limited (SAFM) has announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the owners of the property adjacent to its Ponto Verde iron ore project in Brazil. The memorandum ...
Tags: Australia, Iron Ore, MoU, Metallurgy, Mineral
Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that its iron ore shipments in the fourth quarter ending June 30 of the financial year 2013-14 totaled 38.7 million mt, increasing by 54.8 percent year on year. In June alone, ...
Tags: Australian, Fortescue Metals Group, Metallurgy, Mineral
In the first seven months of the current year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - decreased by 1.3 percent year on year to 702.6 million ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Railways
Finnish mining and metal manufacturing equipment provider Outotec has issued its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2014. In the second quarter Outotec reported an operating loss of €300,000, compared to ...
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According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in June of the current year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 11.05 billion ($1.03 billion), increasing by five ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Base Metal
US-based corrugated packaging company Pratt Industries has opened a new 72,000ft2 recycling facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The plant accepts both residential and commercial recyclables including paper, plastics and metals and ...
Luxembourg-based Ardagh Group has signed a 15-year agreement with West Yorkshire-based Reuse to expand glass recycling in the UK. The company has joined forces with the Australian recycling and waste management company United Resource ...
Tags: Ardagh Group, Reuse, Packaging
Videojet Technologies has announced the launch of a 50-Watt fiber laser marking system to address manufacturers’ requirements to laser mark on plastic packaging, metal containers, and other industrial products. Engineered for high ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a 150-ton, twin RH vacuum degassing plant for the Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA). The new plant will be installed at AHMSA's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in May this year Turkey's season and calendar adjusted monthly industrial production decreased by one percent compared to April, while the calendar adjusted index ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the first five months of this year, Russia's ferrous metal export volume increased by 9.1 percent year on year to 3.36 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In volume terms, exports of ferroalloys ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Ferrous Metal, ferroalloys, pig iron
On July 8, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (June 30-July 6) the overall average finished steel price in China decreased by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. Last week, the average prices of ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel, Metal
In Sweden, industrial production decreased by 3.2 percent in May this year compared to April and by 2.2 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the production index ...
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The price of palladium, hitting $865 an ounce on Friday, made a notable record. It hasn't, as Reuters notes, traded so high since February 2001. What's more, it also surged by highs it hit back in 2011 when it traded in the mid-$800s an ...
Tags: palladium, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy