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by Stuart Burns on February 6, 2012
Style: Category: Ferrous Metals, M&A Activity
Keywords: EU, Inoxum, Outokumpo, Stainless Steel, ThyssenKrupp
However much Outokumpo talks about the desirability of merging the complimentary products ranges of their company with Inoxum, the recently spun-off stainless division of ThyssenKrupp, the fact is: this merger is all about rationalization. The European — if not the global — stainless market is characterized by too much (and too high-cost) production capacity. The [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on February 1, 2012
Style: Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Global Trade, Minor Metals
Keywords: China, Commodities, exports, Nucor, Rare Earth Metals, Steel, US manufacturing, WTO
We all know a thing or two about news that’s not really news (or, to put it more accurately, news that’s overblown) — and this phenomenon seems to happen in the realm of rare earth metals more than anywhere else. Reporting on rare earth metals is such a hot commodity in and of itself that [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on January 27, 2012
Style: Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: China, copper prices, scrap, steel prices, US manufacturing
Source: Op-Docs series in the New York Times. Click on the image above to watch the film. MetalMiner is no stranger to covering scrap metal theft, so it’s fitting that we give at least a few virtual inches to perhaps the largest urban scrapyard in the nation — Detroit — where stealing scrap is not [...]
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by Nate on January 27, 2012
Style: Category: Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: Silver, Stainless Steel, Steel
Anni Albers was a student at the The Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. In 1933 she taught, by invitation, at Black Mountain College in North Carolina until 1949. Albers focused on weaving design and production in the 1950s, and became known for her textile patterns, which she transformed into colorful tapestries. Anni Albers’ “Intersecting”, 1962, cotton [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on January 25, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Ferrous Metals, Public Policy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zP18scC7kQ[/youtube] MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman interviews NSBA’s Executive Director Roger Ferch. Just the other day, the Dylan Ratigan Show (on which MetalMiner has appeared before) ran a segment revising how the structural revamp of the San Francisco Bay Bridge was outsourced to China. Why would the state of California jump to contracting with China to [...]
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by Stuart Burns on January 25, 2012
Style: Market Analysis Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Macroeconomics, Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
The European debt crisis has rather overshadowed the usual preoccupation of metals analysts, commentators and investors – China – of late, so a couple of broadly related articles in Thomson Reuters makes interesting reading. It is clear metal prices will not escape the effects of the Euro debt crisis, which seems to lurch between relief [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on January 25, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Green
TC Malhotra contributes to MetalMiner from New Delhi. Tata Steel has secured a major contract from Siemens Wind Power to supply 25,000 metric tons of high quality profiled steel plate for wind towers. The order – the largest to date for the steel company’s dedicated wind tower hub in Scunthorpe, England – is worth an [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on January 23, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Metal Prices, Supply & Demand
Keywords: Coking Coal, India, Iron Ore, Steel
TC Malhotra contributes to MetalMiner from New Delhi. Indian steel companies, already in the red this year, are likely to suffer a sharp fall in profit in the third quarter of the fiscal year because of high production costs and falling demand. A Business Line report notes that major steelmakers such as JSW Steel, Tata [...]
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