China, India, Japan, the United States and Russia make up the leading five countries among the world’s largest steel producers, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). Worldsteel, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, is a non-profit organization. Each year, it publishes a list of the largest steel-producing companies globally.
Resirene, a Grupo KUO business, announced this Tuesday a partnership with UBQ Materials to produce the first circular grade High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) compound. According to a statement from Grupo KUO, HIPS is the most sustainable polystyrene in the world. For its part, Resirene is the largest polystyrene
Exports from Mexico to the United States grew at a year-on-year rate of 18.3% in 2021, to 384,705.5 million dollars. On the one hand, this result was the first for a full year of the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA), which began operating on
Close behind each other, Canada, Mexico, and China ranked as US’s top trading partners in 2021. The Census Bureau reported on Tuesday that Canada was placed in the first position with 14.5% of the total merchandise trade of the United States (imports plus exports). Globally, US trade in
The US government has agreed to grant a quota for steel imports from Japan, partially resolving a bilateral dispute. While removing the current 25% tariff in general, the agreement establishes a quota to import, duty-free, up to 1.25 million metric tons of steel from Japan. Above that volume,
The Port of Liverpool gained market share from Grupo Sanborns (a subsidiary of Grupo Carso) and El Palacio de Hierro in 2019 and 2020. To specify: the measurement takes into account the participation in sales as of December 31 of each year only of these three companies, the