Metal News

Resources giant BHP Billiton Ltd has a new window of opportunity to make a fresh bid for rival Rio Tinto Ltd, after it abandoned a takeover move last year.

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2009 American Silver Eagle Coins registered another new record last month. The US Mint sold 2,939,000 of the bullion coins, which is the most ever for an October month stretching back the creation of the series in 1986.

THE obvious question raised by recent suggestions that Rio Tinto's proposed iron ore joint venture with BHP Billiton is unattractive to a recovering Rio and should be either renegotiated or dumped is: unattractive compared with what? Rio has halved its gearing, with assets sales and a rights issue and the global crisis is receding, but there is ...

The Philippine government has decided to buy rice from Vietnamese and South Korean companies to cover a shortage caused by recent back-to-back typhoons, a spokesman said Friday.

L.B. Foster Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., has announced a newly formed joint venture between three partners, Kentucky-based Lally Pipe & Tube, L.B. Foster, and industry veteran, Jim Legg.

MetoKote Corporation, a provider of protective coating applications based in the United States, has chosen Germany as the site of its new manufacturing plant.

The United States Mint recorded another month of strong sales for its gold and silver bullion coin products.

Nov. 5, 2009 9:24 a.m. Grede Foundries, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June, said Thursday that it expects to be sold by year's end.

NetSuite announced that COMMCO LLC, a Kansas City-based distribution and light manufacturing company and a leading home improvement millwork distributor, is the latest company to successfully switch from SAP R/3 to NetSuite OneWorld, going live on time and on budget, and providing the Kansas City-based company substantial savings.

Australiaa s trade deficit widened less than economists forecast in September as a surge in exports of coal offset a matching gain in imports.

Continued weak demand for titanium products, plus a charge and tax expense, drove RTI International Metals Inc.

RedPrairie Corporation , a productivity software provider, announced today that it will offer pre-integrated application modules for NetSuite Inc.

Park-Ohio Holdings Corp., a Cleveland manufacturing and supply chain logistics company, said it lost $3.2 million, or 29 cents a share, in the third quarter that ended Sept.

Despite the steady flow of mostly positive economic news, topped off last week with the report that the nation had ended its longest slump in more than 60 years, it is hard to shed the worry that the recovery could stall before it did much good.

Iron Ore Chief Executive Sam Walsh said Monday the synergies on offer from a planned iron ore joint venture with BHP Billiton Ltd.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's leading shipbuilder, said on Monday that it has won a US$1.4 billion deal to build gas facilities in Myanmar.

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NetSuite Inc. , a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced that it will bring its national business cloud computing seminar to the Chicago Trump International Hotel & Tower, November 3, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. This timely seminar on the latest advancements in business cloud computing will feature a ...

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