Source: NY Times As an update to our previous post about the WTO ruling on China’s export restrictions, we thought we’d point to a follow-up from Reuters on the ruling’s implications for rare earth metal quotas. In short, there’s a loophole. Reuters notes that “Monday’s ruling left open a loophole for export quotas if they [...]
Every six months or so, I am reminded of this phrase which I love, “nothing kills high prices like high prices.” And so it goes that engineers and sourcing organizations everywhere begin to contemplate and, in some cases, develop alternative materials. We have seen examples of this in stainless steels, whereby many organizations made the [...]
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 [...]
MetalMiner welcomes guest commentator Thomas Kase, principal analyst for MetalMiner’s sister site, Spend Matters, and unabashed car aficionado. This post is continued from Part One. The new SL is only the 3rd large-scale aluminum-bodied car production effort ever. (While giving credit to Honda for their NSX sports car, Audi and Jaguar are the first two [...]
MetalMiner welcomes guest commentator Thomas Kase, principal analyst for MetalMiner’s sister site, Spend Matters, and unabashed car aficionado. Source: NY Times If you like cars – as I do – and if you like Mercedes – as I do – then you haven’t missed the latest about the new, nearly all-aluminum 2013 version of the [...]
Capitalism is a wonderful thing. It can create so much wealth, spur so much research and progress that we sometimes take on blind faith that unrestrained pursuit of profit is a good thing. But large energy consumers in the US are asking the question: what is more beneficial — profit for the few or wider [...]
Continued from Part One. Not all renewables are quite as dubious as those outlined in Part One, though; at least in terms of being able to pin down the economics. Two US solar power producers will shortly be able to make an accurate business plan for their solar power projects, not least of which because [...]
I would like to say that research carried out in the Netherlands and reported in a recent Telegraph article could have far-reaching implications for the roll-out of wind power in the UK, if not in Europe and beyond. But such a statement pre-supposes politicians actually take any notice of research or that they can see [...]
