Japan's top nickel producer, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co, said its Philippines Taganito nickel project shipped its first shipment to Japan in Late October. It is reported that the first shipment is of 1,200 metric tons of refined nickel ...
Tags: ore mining, Mineral
We are pleased to announce that Minera Antucoya, located in Chile, which is owned 30% by Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) and 70% by Antofagasta plc (“Antofagasta”), one of the world’s leading copper ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Sunovion Pharmaceuticals' (Sunovion) antiepileptic drug (AED) Aptiom (eslicarbazepine acetate) for the treatment of partial-onset seizures in patients with epilepsy. According to the ...
Tags: FDA, Sunovion, partial-onset seizure, epilepsy
The annual output of injection molding machines in China, the world's largest injection molding machine producer, hit roughly 100,000 sets. However, impacted by the weakening demand for auto and household appliances downstream on the heels ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Plastic Injection Molding Machine
Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has indicated to join purchase agreement with Press Metal Berhad (PMB) for sharing in the second phase of the aluminum smelting project in Sarawak, Malaysia. PMB is the leading integrated aluminum company ...
Tags: Aluminum Smelters, Mineral
The world's second-largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, has raised its financial year 2014's profit forecast from ¥300 billion to ¥340 billion, up 13%. The company contributes the profit forecast rise to cost cut ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
The world's second biggest steelmaker Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced its financial results for the first half ended September 30 of the financial year 2013-14, posting a net profit of JPY 115.6 billion ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping order on large diameter (over 4.5 inches in diameter) carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from ...
Tags: Pipe, steel, Construction
At least one major steelmaker is making preparations based on rampant chatter in the US market that ThyssenKrupp is poised to sell its Alabama rolling mill (possibly including its Brazilian slab operations) to a triad of ArcelorMittal, ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
China Steel Corp. (CSC) announced to joint-venture with South Africa's Assmang Ltd. and Japan's Sumitomo Corp. to build up a new alloy plant in Malaysia. The total investment costs about $320 million, which Assmang owns a 54.36 percent ...
Tags: Steel, Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Idemitsu Kosan would soon restart its olefins conversion unit (OCU) at its Chiba refinery, which was shutdown due to a fire incident earlier this week. “The fire occurred at the refinery on the morning of October 16, 2013,” ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has entered into an agreement to construct a 250MWAC solar power plant in Riverside County, CA, for a subsidiary of ...
Tags: Solar, Power Plant, Electrical, Electronics
Work on construction of a US$ 4.5 billion petrochemical complex in Vietnam, a joint venture of Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) and its Vietnamese partners - PetroVietnam (PVN) and Vinachem, is ...
Tags: Petrochem, Siam Cement Group
Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSMC) announced to keep its contract prices for H-beam unchanged for October as the price rise for September was not accepted completely. At present, the market prices for SS400 H beam are at ...
Tags: H-Beam, Construction
China Steel Sumikin Vietnam Joint Stock Company (CSVC), joint-ventured by Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal Corporation, and China Steel Corporation, will start its commercial operation next month. This new sheet mill was an investment of about ...
Tags: steel, Construction