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Tuesday, April 7, 2015 CHICAGOANS ASK CITY FOR PROTECTION FROM PETCOKE » KCBX Terminals officials are asking the city for more time to comply with the city's plan for protecting the community fro...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 A new FCB TSV™ Classifier for Lafarge Ain Sokhna plant, Egypt » Fives will supply a new high-efficiency separator for the Lafarge Cement Egypt petcoke grinding unit in the frame of its c...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Alcoa, Metalsa Offer 2,500 lbs in Future Weight Savings » Switching several major components from steel to aluminum could save up to 2,500 pounds on a typical class 8 truck. ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 How Alcoa Inc (AA) Is Looking To Expand Beyond Raw Aluminum » The world’s third largest aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) is leading the charge on two fronts, as it looks to redef...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Swiss Holcim, French Lafarge reach agreement on CHF40 billion merger » The cement industry giants Holcim of Switzerland and Lafarge of France reached an agreement of CHF40 billion ($40.5 billio...
Thursday, April 2, 2015 Clean air rules likely to cause power generation shortages in much of US: NERC chief » New US environmental regulations are likely to create generation shortages in the Great Plains, Midwest, Northeast and Tex...
Thursday, April 2, 2015 The decline and fall of South American aluminum production » U.S. aluminum producer Alcoa has this week announced the full shuttering of the Alumar smelter in Brazil. http://www.r...
Thursday, April 2, 2015 EPA officially proposes listing CFAC smelter » The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced March 24 that it officially had proposed adding the Columbia Falls Alum...
Thursday, April 2, 2015 Sohar refinery project 'ahead of schedule » Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company’s (Orpic) multi-billion-dollar Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SR...
Thursday, April 2, 2015 Sohar Refinery Improvement Project » The Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP) is a multibillion dollar capital investment for Orpic. http://www.orpic....
Thursday, April 2, 2015 Contract to store pet coke put to market » A contract for a facility to store and handle petroleum coke, which will be produced following the completion of a refiner...
Monday, March 30, 2015 JKCL on death bed » Already under financial distress, the Jammu and Kashmir Cements Limited is facing tough times as its main cement manufactu...
Monday, March 30, 2015 Century Aluminum, union extend deadline for Kentucky smelter talks » Century Aluminum Co and unionized workers at its Hawesville, Kentucky, aluminum smelter agreed to extend by a week a deadl...
Monday, March 30, 2015 Egypt: Italcementi’s energy diversification focus » Italcementi is currently focussing on energy source diversification at its Egyptian facilities, CEO Carlo Pesenti told Dai...
Monday, March 30, 2015 Renewable energy target: Government under pressure to make deal as backbencher breaks ranks » The Abbott Government is under growing pressure within its own ranks to make a deal on Australia's renewable energy target...
Monday, March 30, 2015 Chalco shares recover after early fall following record loss » Shares of Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) dropped as much as 2.8 per cent after the nation’s largest smelter of the...
Monday, March 30, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Smelters ‘in peril’ if RET deal not struck » Big business has demanded the government and Labor resolve the impasse over the future of the ¬renewable energy target as...
Monday, March 30, 2015 Aluminium firm Rusal says considering more smelter shutdowns » HONG KONG: Top global aluminium producer United Company Rusal is looking at shutting down more smelters, Deputy CEO Oleg M...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Yunlin County boss under fire over Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) meeting - permits for burning petrol » The Yunlin County Government has come under fire from environmental activists over “opaque” discussions with the Formosa P...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Cement to cost RS 4/bag more on coal price hike: Heidelberg » Post the passage of Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) bill, the cost of mining is expected to go up bec...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Why USW Strike Continues At BP plc (ADR) Whiting Refinery » USW striking workers at Royal Dutch Shell plc’s refineries have decided to return to work this week, while thousands other...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Cost of mining expected to go up due to MMDR bill: HeidelbergCement » Though the company does not have much clarity regarding the royalty to be passed on post the MMDR bill, Cooper excpects th...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Suez Cement pumps USD108m into coal conversion investments this year » Suez Cement , one of Egypt's biggest cement makers, is planning to pump this year new investments worth US$108 million....
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Emirates Global Aluminium shines in Germany » WAM reported that Emirates Global Aluminium, EGA, one of the world's five largest primary aluminium producers, has again r...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Aluminium Middle East to see strong German participation » The Middle East's largest event for aluminium and allied industry, due to take place in Dubai next month, will have a stro...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Union challenges Kitimat Smelter Upgrades in Court » Unifor, a Canadian labour union, has filed for a judicial review in the Supreme Court of British Columbia to challenge an...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Venezuela steel, aluminum output hit lowest level in 30 years » (Reuters) - Venezuela's production of aluminum and steel in 2014 fell to their lowest levels in three decades due to limit...
Friday, February 20, 2015 Koch firm vows to eliminate Chicago petcoke piles » Given an ultimatum by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a firm owned by industrialists Charles and David Koch bowed to more than a year...
Friday, February 20, 2015 BP will stop shipping petcoke to Illinois, but will it be stored in NWI? » WHITING\| BP plans to stop storing the oil refining byproduct petcoke in Chicago, but won't say where it's going, raising c...
Friday, February 20, 2015 CEMEX Creates “CEMEX Energia” » MONTERREY, Mexico--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (“CEMEX”) (NYSE: CX) announced today the creation of CEMEX Energ...
Friday, February 20, 2015 ExxonMobil officials still not talking day after Torrance refinery explosion » A thick layer of ash covers the cars at Scott Robinson Honda on Hawthorne Blvd Wednesday following the explosion at the Ex...
Friday, February 20, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Torrance ExxonMobil Refinery Rocked by Large Explosion; Earthquake-Like Shaking Reported » Four workers had minor injuries Wednesday after a large explosion at an ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance that left ash casc...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Dockworkers Return to Work at Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles After Weekend Suspension of Vessel Op » 32 ships waited to get into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach today as dockworkers returned to work following a part...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Threatened Canadian Rail Strike Seen Weakening Heavy Oil Prices » C anadian crude prices near a six-year low may weaken further should workers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd carry through...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Noranda Reports Fourth Quarter Results, Sequential and Year-over-Year Profit Improvement » "Our fourth quarter 2014 performance reflects a sequential and year-over-year improvement in our operating results," said...
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