China's proposed ban on imports of low calorific value thermal coal will have a serious impact on Indonesian sub-bituminous coal prices, industry sources said Thursday. Platts, quoting well-informed sources, reported this week that ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Indonesian Prices
US natural gas prices will remain stable in the $3-$4/MMBtu range for the rest of the year, three-quarters of the global energy executives surveyed by consulting firm KPMG said in a poll released Friday. "Greater assurance of supply ...
Tags: Energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, natural gas
According to data released by the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus, in the first four months of the current year the value of metallurgical production in Belarus increased by 4.9 percent compared to the same period ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Belarus
LASER 2013: photonics to employ 165,000 in Germany by 2020 15 May 2013 Study by the Photonik Forschung Deutschland organization calls the growing sector a "job engine". Panel talk The German photonics sector will employ 165,000 ...
Tags: Photonics industry, Lighting
Turkey's billet imports in the first quarter of this year constituted the highest quarterly volume since the second quarter of 2009. Increasing by 23.2 percent compared to the previous quarter and up 33.2 percent compared to the same ...
In April this year, South Korea's total car output decreased by 2.5 percent year on year and was up 5.7 percent compared to March this year, totaling 386,446 units, according to a report released by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy ...
Tags: Car Output, Auto
Urgent action is needed to reduce the U.S. military's dangerous dependence on foreign suppliers for the raw materials, parts and finished products needed to defend America, according to a new study prepared by Brigadier General John Adams ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Supply Chain
The trade war in the solar market does not seem to be stopping. Following the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariff levied on China-based firms from the US, the EU is likely to follow suit with a tariff rate above 30%. If this tariff comes ...
State-owned PetroChina has refuted local reports that it restricted natural gas supplies in some areas of northern China in order to force the government's hand in raising prices and accelerating gas pricing reforms. Local media, ...
Tags: PetroChina, Gas Supplies
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of 2013 European Union (EU) steel exports increased by four percent ...
Tags: EUROFER, Steel Exports
Enterprise Products Partners said Thursday it will expand its ECHO crude storage terminal in Houston as part of an overall plan to increase infrastructure in Southeast Texas. The Enterprise Crude Oil Houston (ECHO) storage terminal will ...
Tags: ECHO Crude Storage, Barrels
On April 22, the world's largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal announced that in defense of its patent rights it filed complaints before the District Court of Delaware, US on April 16 to demonstrate that AK Steel, Severstal North America (SNA) ...
Tags: Arcelormittal, AK Steel, Mineral
MHI to license KU gas engine technologies to ZGPT of China Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 Today Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) concluded an agreement with ZGPT Diesel Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (ZGPT), a Chinese manufacturer of stationary ...
Tags: Service, Transportation, MHI
Boao Forum for Asia 2013 Annual Conference will be held from April 6 to 8 in Boao, Hainan Province. Recently, Boao Forum for Asia's magazine "Boao Observation" teams up new institutional economics originator Ronald Coase, Nobel Laureate ...
Tags: Mineral, Baosteel, Internationalization Road
The US exported crude oil to China for the first time since November 2005 in January, according to data the Energy Information Administration released Thursday. US crude oil exports to China averaged 9,000 b/d in January, the EIA's data ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy