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Feb. 2, 2010 Mexican petrochemical giant Mexichem SAB said that it has reached an agreement to acquire Ineos Group's fluorine unit in a deal that will make it a leading producer of the chemical compound. "This acquisition will allow for the integration of the largest producer of ...
Feb. 2, 2010 Titanium Resources Group says rutile production was up 96.8% in the final quarter of 2009 compared with Q3, contributing 21,514 tonnes to an annual figure of 63,864 tonnes which was broadly in line with company estimates. The company also produced 15,161 tonnes of ...
Jan. 28, 2010 Graphite India Ltd plans to invest 4 billion rupees over the next 18 months to augment its production capacity, a top official said on Thursday. "We will be setting up a coal-based thermal power plant of 50 MW capacity with an investment of 2.14 billion rupees, ...
Nov. 1, 2010 - Elkem had silicon-related operating revenues of NOK2,211-million in the third quarter of 2010 vs. NOK1,441 million in the same 2009 period. The EBITDA was NOK131-million in the in the third quarter, compared with NOK-162 million in the same period of 2009. The ...
Nov. 5, 2010 - Empire Mining Corp., a junior Vancouver miner, says it has signed a definitive agreement for the three per cent royalty sale to Anglo-Pacific Group PLC on chromite mined from the company's Bulqiza project in the Balkan country of Albania. Under the deal, announced ...
Nov. 4, 2010 - RHI forecast flat fourth-quarter earnings compared to the previous quarter after the Austrian fireproof materials maker reported a jump in third-quarter pretax profit that missed expectations. The maker of special bricks and mortar used in the furnaces and kilns of ...
Oct. 30 - RUSAL has approached Queensland with an expression of interest in taking over the long-delayed $3 billion Aurukun bauxite project. The state government yesterday confirmed reports from Moscow that Russia's global aluminium bear initiated discussions in August after ...
NEW YORK, Oct 28, 2010 - Minerals Technologies Inc. today reported third quarter diluted earnings per common share of $0.90 compared with $0.47 per share in the same period of 2009. Net income for the quarter was $16.7 million compared to the $8.9 million in the prior year. "Our ...
Oct. 28, 2010 - GrafTech International Ltd. reports that its third-quarter earnings were more than triple year-ago profits as its sales soared 55%. The maker of graphite electrodes for steelmaking and other carbon-based products said its net income in the quarter climbed to $24.6 ...
Oct. 27, 2010 - Abrasives major Carborundum Universal Ltd (CUMI) closed the second quarter of the current fiscal with a consolidated revenue and profit growth of 26 percent and 55 percent respectively. The Murugappa group company Wednesday said its consolidated sales and net ...
Nov. 9, 2010 - Synergy Africa, a joint venture (JV) between Finnish group Ruukki and UK-based investment holding company Kermas, has extended the deadline of its 37-million cash takeover offer for Chromex Mining to November 29. Synergy Africa, which was established specifically ...
Nov. 10, 2010 - It is learned that RHI AG plans to produce up to 100,000 tpy of refractory bricks and mixes at its new South American plant to be installed in the Brazilian Queimados city of Rio de Janeiro state. The new plant's construction is scheduled to start by April 2011, ...
Nov. 12. 2010 - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. of Vandalia, Mo., 17 workplace safety violations with $119,625 in proposed penalties. OSHA's inspection of the masonry block manufacturing ...
Nov. 11, 2010 - Graphite India Ltd has informed BSE that ICRA has upgraded / reaffirmed / retained the ratings for the following: 1. Rs. 100 crore NCD programme - upgraded from LAA (pronounced as L double A) to LAA+ (pronounced as L double A plus) The rating indicates high credit ...
Nov. 12, 2010 - Rio Tinto Alcan will invest USD 10 million in the expansion of the bauxite residue containment site at its Vaudreuil Works alumina refinery in Jonqui re, Quebec of Canada. Mr Gervais Jacques Rio Tinto Alcan's COO of Atlantic, Bauxite and Alumina said that "The ...
Nov. 10, 2010 - Graphit Kropfm hl AG is operating in a positive market environment which we used to emerge from the crisis stronger than before. In the first nine months the consolidated turnover increased by 15.9 % to TEUR 71,709. This growth was especially carried by the ...
Nov. 17, 2010 - British industrial materials firm Morgan Crucible said it expected profit for the year to be in the top half range of analysts' forecast, sending its shares up 3 percent. Morgan Crucible, which manufactures body armour and graphite powder for the synthetic diamond ...
Nov. 18, 2010 - Tata Refractories (TRL), Belpahar, conducted an entrepreneur development programme (EDP) for a group of eleven small and medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs of Chirkunda Refractories Cluster, Jharkhand, at the JJ Irani Centre for Learning, Belpahar, on November ...
Oct. 6, 2010 - Strong demand for steel and oil is expected in China and India Global steel and oil prices is set to rise in 2011. Demand for steel is set to rise 13.1 percent to 1.27 billion tonnes this year, higher than an earlier forecast of 8.4 percent growth. Strong demand ...
Feb. 11, 2011 - Worldwide economic recession adversely impacted and derailed the momentum of bauxite and alumina market. Developed regions such as the US, Canada and Japan observed a fall in demand for alumina during 2008-2009 due to the close down of various aluminum smelters, ...
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