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    Global commodity trader Trafigura will restart its copper mining operation at Pweto in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the government announced on Thursday October 8.

    SAN FRANCISCO, 9 October 2020 (PPI Pulp & Paper Week) – Four of the largest six North American containerboard and corrugated box companies were said to be out with early November price increases of 8-11% for corrugated boxes sheets, industry contacts told Fastmarkets RISI’s PPI Pulp & Paper Week as of Oct. 7.The largest three […]

    Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have settled in at around $31.50 per hundredweight ($630 per short ton), and market participants expect them to continue moving higher in the weeks ahead.

    A roundup of employment cutbacks announced in Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice Act letters filed to state labor agencies in the United States over the past month or two, including at least 14 full closures, indexed by sector.

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