KOBE EYES STEEL WELDING SALES IN BANGLADESH’S SHIPBUILDING SECTOR
May 26th, 2015
Japan’s Kobe Steel’s (Kobelco) has entered the Bangladesh market as it aims to gain a toehold in the south Asian nation’s growing shipbuilding sector, focusing on high titanium oxide-based welding rods designed to connect mild steel sheets. The third-largest steel maker in Japan, annual revenues of USD16 billion has already delivered 100 tonnes of welding electrodes, which will be marketed among shipbuilders by its local partner TSI Marine Ltd. “We expect development in [the shipbuilding] industry in near future in Bangladesh and it is very important for ...
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