US investment bank Goldman Sachs said Wednesday it has upgraded its three-month and six-month nickel price forecasts on the back of the Indonesian ban on nickel ore exports. The bank notes that following a fragmented Indonesian election ...
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Vale SA announced Tuesday that it has secured 6.2 billion reais (US$2.8 billion) in funding from Brazil’s state development bank in order to expand its Caraja mine, the world’s largest iron-ore complex. The funds will finance ...
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Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has announced that in the first quarter this year its crude steel output amounted to 3.7 million mt, down 9.2 percent year on year. In the given quarter, the crude steel production of the ...
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Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that it will produce 10,000 mt of X70 rolled pipe plates with improved mechanical properties for an ...
In March of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 6.8322 trillion ($1.115 trillion), up 17.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ...
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HORN, a distributor of specialty ingredients, chemicals and raw materials, was awarded with an expansion of its distribution partnership with BASF in the Western U.S. Effective immediately, HORN now offers BASF's Capromer polyols, a ...
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Improving Energy Efficiency and ROI for Forge Presses Creating 7 million lb of pressure to bear on heated metal billets is noisy and hot. For the customer, powerful hydraulic pressure comes with high electrical energy cost and wear and ...
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Indian miner Vedanta Resources has announced that in the January-March period this year it produced 1.5 million mt of iron ore, after resuming mining operations in the Indian state of Karnataka on December 28, following clearance from the ...
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The new Tire Advisor mobile app from Bridgestone allows users to compare truck and bus tires, Bandag retreads and off-road mining and construction tires. Bridgestone Commercial Solutions has introduced a mobile app called Tire Advisor ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 2.078 million mt of iron ore concentrate in the January-March period of ...
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Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel companies, has announced that its contract with Baosteel Resources, the raw materials-focused wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese steelmaking major Baosteel, which provides for an increase ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in February this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa decreased by 7.3 percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
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Foton on Wednesday announced that, recently, the joint venture Beijing Foton Cummins Engine Co., Ltd. with 50% of its share signed the "Euro VI Engine Development Contract" with America Cummins. Leaders from Foton Auto and American ...
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RoHS directive to exclude the contents of the original February 12, 2003 e Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium, which are exempted from the requirements of Article 4(1) 1. Mercury in compact fluorescent ...
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Iron ore prices of just under $120/mt are likely to stay flat in the medium term, with some softening expected in the short term, a Sanlam Securities' mining analyst said Wednesday. "There's going to be volatility in the iron ore price as ...
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