Global metals & mining industry deals total $502.25m in January 2020

London - The value marked a decrease of 93.6% over the previous month and a drop of 89.7% when compared with the last 12-month average of $4.88bn.

08 Mar 2020

Industrial metals: Prices are holding up relatively well despite losses

Frankfurt - Steel and iron ore prices are also not exceptionally low, although the corona virus has hit the steel industry in China particularly hard.

08 Mar 2020

Canada’s metals & mining industry M&A deals total $6.81bn in Q4 2019

London - Canada held a 33.7% share of the global metals & mining industry M&A deal value that totalled $20.22bn in Q4 2019.

08 Mar 2020

Casthouse expansion in Klomnice

Düsseldorf – Eurometal S.A., a company of the Eko-Świat group, has placed an order with Hertwich Engineering for the supply of an Ecomelt-PR100 multi-chamber melting furnace for the expansion of its aluminium casthouse in Klomnice, Poland. The plant, with a capacity of 30.000 tons per year, is scheduled to start operation in spring 2021.

06 Mar 2020

New date for wire and Tube in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf - Leading international trade fairs for the wire, cable and tube industry, wire and Tube, will take place from 7 to 11 December 2020.

06 Mar 2020

Logistics and automation from one source

Düsseldorf – dnata, one of the world’s largest airport services provider, is moving its air cargo handling operations at Manchester Airport to a new purpose-built facility, the “dnata City Northˮ cargo complex.

06 Mar 2020

Commissioning of two LiquiRob systems at Baosteel Meishan

London – In 2019, two LiquiRob systems from Primetals Technologies commenced operation at the Meishan plant of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.

06 Mar 2020

Metal production in China is picking up again

Frankfurt - Chinese economy is on track to return to normal.

04 Mar 2020

Engineers are preparing the Whyalla Port in South Australia for new work

Adelaide - Sanjeev Gupta explores steel recycling opportunities.

04 Mar 2020

Efficiency increase after conversion of rolling-oil filter system

Düsseldorf  – Two new Multi-Plate® filters from SMS group enhance efficiency and sustainability of rolling operations at Hydro Aluminium Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH operates a facility for rolled aluminium products in Grevenbroich, Germany.

04 Mar 2020

Future EU-UK partnership must guarantee frictionless trade

Brussels – With negotiations on the future of the EU and UK relationship beginning this week, the European Steel Association (EUROFER) urges both sides to reach as comprehensive an agreement as possible.

04 Mar 2020

Schuler accepts high one-off burdens on 2019 earnings for future concept

Göppingen – As expected, the strategic realignment of press manufacturer Schuler resulted in high one-off burdens on earnings in 2019. Due to cyclical effects, new orders were down but performed much better than the German machine tool industry as a whole.

04 Mar 2020

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