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According to the results of 2022, the Russian car market expects a decrease in sales at the level of 28%
But as early as next year, it may begin to recover, and by 2024, in physical terms, it will exceed the pre-crisis 2021 figures due to an increase in...
Japan's Daikin to build heat pump plant in Poland
In Europe, against the backdrop of skyrocketing gas prices, there is a growing demand for heat pumps that use electricity to generate heat....
June car sales in China up 24%
According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), a number of government measures and campaigns to increase car consumption have...
Serbian steel plant shuts down blast furnace due to high gas prices
Smelter HBIS Serbia will stop a blast furnace with a capacity of about one million tons per year at its plant in Smederevo due to weak demand for...
China and Australia agree to improve bilateral relations
The cost of coal on the world market may start to rise again if China lifts a politically motivated blockade on fuel supplies from Australia. This,...
New Study Reveals Serious Risk of Noise Pollution from Deep Sea Mining
The noise from a single operating mine will travel hundreds of miles, with devastating effects on deep sea life. For this reason, a growing number of...
Kharkiv Turboatom may stop due to blocking of accounts - Directorate of the plant
The strategically important machine-building enterprise of Ukraine kept money in the Kharkov bank "Megabank", which was declared insolvent...
Tesla's Shanghai gigafactory boosted EV shipments by 177% in June
In the first half of the year, the American automaker increased the production of electric cars in China to 300 thousand units, which is more than...
Liberty Steel invests record €350 million in Czech steel plant
The biggest investment since the commissioning of the Ostrava plant is to switch steel production to electricity, which will reduce CO2 emissions and...
Turkey imposes anti-dumping duties on steel from Europe and South Korea
The new fees follow an investigation into trade between October 2019 and September 2020, when imports of flat products totaled $2.05 billion....
Chinese astronomers find nine lithium-enriched dwarf stars
According to the results of the study, the content of lithium in these stars is four times greater than in the Sun....
Ferrexpo reduced production of iron ore pellets in Ukraine by 27% due to logistical constraints
Logistics in Ukraine remains the biggest constraint for Ferrexpo's business at present and the company is focusing its efforts on increasing...
The European Parliament declares natural gas and nuclear fuel sources of "green" energy
In Ukraine, they believe that this decision will become the basis for the construction of the Ukrainian hydrogen economy, and in Europe itself, they...
Ukraine continues to transfer its nuclear power plants to American nuclear fuel
Power unit No. 3 of Rivne NPP is already the seventh of thirteen Ukrainian nuclear reactors of the VVER-1000 type, which use fuel assemblies from...
Europe's largest steel plant scoffs at EU environmental regulations - POLITICO
The European Commission says EU citizens benefit from some of the world's highest environmental standards. Residents of the Italian city of...
The Belarusian steel plant was visited by the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Belarus Askar Beisenbaev
Askar Beisenbayev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus, paid a business visit to BMZ OJSC, the managing company of...
US steel prices fall to December 2020 levels
U.S. hot rolled coil (HRC) prices have dropped below $1,000/ton this week, falling to levels not seen since December 2020....
Interpipe mastered a new type of railway wheels for the EU market
The new rolled metal is designed for 1,435 mm railway electric rolling stock cars, that is, it can be installed on electric trains for ordinary...
Tesla in the second quarter reduced the supply of cars by 18%
Negative factors were ongoing problems in global supply chains and the suspension of the company's operations in China due to the COVID-19...
Steel prices fall due to weakening European demand and problems in China
New cases of coronavirus in China and falling iron ore prices amid "nearly zero" demand for steel beams in Europe are putting pressure on...
The United States refused to impose duties on Russian metals and increase tariffs on iron imports
Earlier, within the framework of depriving Russia of the “greatest assistance” status, the United States announced an increase in duty rates on more...
Daimler Truck began testing Actros tractor on liquid hydrogen
Daimler Truck aims to eventually bring the fuel cell prototype Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck to a range of 1,000 kilometers or more, making the truck...
Volvo invests $1.25 billion to build electric vehicle plant in Slovakia
The Kosice plant will complement Volvo's Ghent plant in Belgium and the Torsland plant in Sweden and help the company go fully electric by 2030...
Swedish court authorizes construction of steel mill for the first time in 50 years
A court in Sweden has allowed H2 Green Steel to start building a hydrogen-powered, coal-free steel plant in northern Sweden, the first steel complex...
AvtoVAZ plans to produce at least 400,000 vehicles in 2023
Today, the AvtoVAZ plant in Togliatti is partially idle: of the three lines of a single car assembly plant, only the line for assembling simplified...
Zaporizhstal: production results in June 2022
A month after the forced shutdown in early March, the Zaporizhstal plant removed the equipment from mothballing and partially resumed production....
Australian TIG approved coal mining at the Chukchi Zvonkoye field
The company expects to bring the new open pit to its design capacity in 2023, which will significantly increase the volume of coal production. In...
The global steel industry will face its worst quarter since the 2008 crisis
The London Metal Exchange Index has fallen 23% since the end of March. This will be the first quarterly decline for the entire index since the start...