Source: Harrison Spinks In global terms, Harrison Spinks would be considered a small manufacturing company. The firm established in 1840 makes beds at the upper end of the value chain, often using up to 20,000 springs in a bed, costing up to £17,000 ($27,000). They could not operate at this end of the market without [...]
Source: mnn.com Green technology approaches are just as important to the metals industry as they are to environmental groups — if we could all “go green” with our processes and products, we would today. The reality is, it will take a long time to get all sectors of all industries on the bandwagon; not to [...]
Continued from Part One. Source: Exxon Mobil As the graph above shows, the firm predicts oil will continue to be the largest energy source, suggesting they do not expect electric cars to replace the internal combustion engine by 2040. Nor, to the disappointment of The Greens, do they appear to think wind and solar will [...]
Exxon Mobil has released their annual “Outlook for Energy report, a 43-page survey of what the global energy market holds in store up to 2040. With vast global reach in the energy market and more money at their disposal than many small countries, Exxon Mobil’s research is arguably as good as any bank or government [...]
Source: Time Republicans plan House OK of payroll tax cut bill — and Keystone XL pipeline extension The bill, which “includes language forcing work on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada that Obama wants to delay until after next year’s elections” and, just as importantly, “language blocking a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule [...]
Continued from Part One. It can’t be said Mexico as a whole greatly benefits from this lead recycling trade. The environmental impact is profound if unquantifiable. Widespread reports cite soil samples in childrens’ play areas; food handling areas such as markets and homes adjacent to plants far exceed even Mexican standards, nevermind the limits set [...]
The US rightly seeks to protect domestic industries facing unfair foreign competition, using anti-dumping action and countervailing duties to protect domestic firms facing imports from countries where local firms benefit from government subsidies or support that allows them to sell at below economic cost in export markets. But foreign government support is only one form [...]
You may wonder why a metals-focused journal like MetalMiner covers renewable industries and so-called green technologies like electric vehicles; we do too, as we have even debated the subject internally at times. But just as Caterpillar’s or John Deere’s fortunes tell us a story about metals demand, so too does that of the electric car [...]
