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A fight between cooperative miners and mine workers over control of the Huanuni tin mine in Boliva’s Oruro region has left at least 12 people dead and 57 others injured.
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Global metal supply has expanded just enough to meet Chinese-led demand growth but will overtake consumption in the latter part of 2007, leading to small surpluses, Mitsui Bussan Commodities Ltd. predicts.
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London Metal Exchange members say longer afternoon kerb trading, due to be introduced next month, could help resolve problems that have emerged in recent years that make trading conditions increasingly difficult and cause erratic price swings.
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Economic activity in the U.S. manufacturing sector increased in September for the 40th consecutive month and the overall economy expanded for the 59th month in a row, according to the latest business report from the Institute for Supply Management, Tempe, Ariz.
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Automotive parts supplier American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., Detroit, said it will reduce its work force by offering a special attrition program to all 6,000 employees represented by the United Auto Workers union at several plants in Michigan and New York.
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U.S. government officials are looking forward to talking with their Chinese counterparts in mid-October about economic and trade issues, but they are planning to do so with a variation of an old adage.
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Forged parts manufacturer Hephaestus Holdings Inc., Chicago, has sold a minority equity interest to Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. for undisclosed financial terms.
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Samuel, Son & Co. Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario, is reorganizing its carbon plate businesses, with Rick Balaz, president of its Samuel Plate Sales unit, moving to publicly traded sister company Samuel Manu-Tech Inc.
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Toyota Motor Corp. has saved about $1,000 per vehicle during the past five years through commonization of commodity components, according to a study that found a $2,400-per-vehicle profit disadvantage for the three domestic automakers.
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Beijing has made several corrections to the export tax rebate policy announced last month after finding a number of mistakes in the original list.
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Appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corp., Benton Harbor, Ind., will lay off about 500 workers at its Evansville, Ind., plant and 700 at its Fort Smith, Ark., plant as part of an ongoing effort to optimize regional manufacturing facilities.
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Vehicle parts manufacturer Defiance Metal Products Co., Defiance, Ohio, has been sold for an undisclosed price to an affiliate of New York-based buyout company Weatherly Group LLC.
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Natural gas costs should be less of a problem for metal players this winter as prices continue to slide, with the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) predicting lower prices than last year in its annual outlook.
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Although there are several obstacles to sustained Chinese growth during the next few years, none of them are likely to put a major dent in China’s economic expansion, as the nation continues to thrive on the world economic stage, according to David Abramson, managing editor for BCA Research, a Montreal-based investment research company.
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The National Association of Manufacturers’ International Economic Fair Policy Group Thursday voted against supporting legislation introduced by Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) and Rep. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.).
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There will be no vote on a bill that seeks to enact a 27.5-percent tariff on all imports from China, key lawmakers said Wednesday.
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Natural gas, oil and gasoline prices have eased steadily during the past few weeks, but steel industry executives believe the energy and power-generation markets are still good places to find customers.
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A new program to train and certify skilled workers drew praise from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the United Steelworkers union and large U.S. manufacturers at a press conference last week.
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Quadrem International BV has merged its South African subsidiary with South Africa-based TradeWorld, a unit of Tactical Software Systems Pty Ltd., to form the world’s largest black-owned digital marketplace.
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Service center Denman & Davis Inc., Clifton, N.J., has installed an upgraded 12-foot Oliver saw in its Albany, N.Y., facility to increase its capacity for production of saw-cut steel by 25 percent.
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Pascal Lamy, the World Trade Organization’s director-general, said Monday that with the suspension of the Doha Round, the world may have missed out on a “major, maybe unique,” opportunity to integrate more vulnerable economies into international trading and make strides to end poverty.
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Marmon/Keystone Corp., Butler, Pa., is expanding value-added service offerings and has added employees at branches in seven cities.
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Service center group O’Neal Steel Inc., Birmingham, Ala., has standardized enterprise-wide on a platform for data integration and data-access software to provide real-time unified data views to its strategic and operational decision makers.
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Construction fabricator Canam Group Inc., Saint-Georges, Quebec, will close its St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec, plant Wednesday, blaming a major drop in demand in the apartment and condominium market in both Quebec and Ontario.