[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiuu8bLBVcQ[/youtube] Andrew Browning, executive vice president of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), speaks with MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman at CEA’s offices in downtown Chicago. In this final segment, Browning hits upon what consumers, producers, and advocates must do to help the US get closer to energy independence. Check out previous segments in the series: Consumer Energy [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqrUJGqOdPw[/youtube] Andrew Browning, executive vice president of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), speaks with MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman at CEA’s offices in downtown Chicago. In this segment, Browning answers questions on the controversy over the Keystone pipeline. Continuing our series of segments with Consumer Energy Alliance’s Andrew Browning, we look at the role of the massive [...]
Though I don’t often find myself on the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center website, as an organization hosting an upcoming webinar on conflict minerals (you can find the link to the registration here), we find ourselves tracking developments within the tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold markets a little more closely these days. In October, the tantalum [...]
by Stuart Burns on September 29, 2011
Style: Commentary
Category: Automotive, Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Product Developments, Supply & Demand
Keywords: Aluminum, Copper, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Steel
Continued from Part One. Steel producers are fighting back with higher strength steels that can be used in thinner (and hence lower weight) gauges, but the expectation is aluminum usage in car bodies will double in this decade, which will add an additional 12 million tons of annual aluminum consumption, an increase of more than [...]
by Stuart Burns on September 29, 2011
Style: Commentary
Category: Automotive, Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Product Developments
Keywords: Aluminum, China, Copper, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Steel
Earlier this week we wrote about the greater volatility and higher prevailing prices of copper compared to steel and aluminum, expanding on an article by Morningstar. Today we want to draw on some analysis the same article made regarding the impact substitution of one metal for another will have on demand in the years ahead. [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ixiGUl638[/youtube] Andrew Browning, executive vice president of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), speaks with MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman at CEA’s offices in downtown Chicago. In this segment, Browning answers questions about current and future infrastructure for domestic natural gas production, and whether it will help the US gain competitive advantage. MetalMiner has covered the importance of [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXEy9Bfu7c[/youtube] Andrew Browning, executive vice president of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), speaks with MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman at CEA’s offices in downtown Chicago. MetalMiner recently had the chance to speak with Andrew Browning, CEA’s executive vice president, about the organization’s work and the importance of not only advocating for the continued, responsible use of oil, [...]
We tend at times to treat all metals as equal, at least in terms of discussing macro issues like the China bull market story’s impact on metal prices, but a recent article by Morningstar not normally a publication taken to metals analysis makes some very interesting observations regarding the performance of various metals from before [...]
