MetalMiner is pleased to welcome Spend Matters Editor Jason Busch. We’re excited this week to welcome BravoSolution as a Bronze sponsor of Commodity EDGE. Lisa and I have worked with some of the BravoSolution team members going back over a decade and are thrilled they’ll be working with us to pull off a sourcing and [...]
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 [...]
Back in September, MetalMiner interviewed Andrew Browning of the Consumer Energy Alliance about the future of US energy policy, including the role shale gas plays in the energy supply. When asked about fracking specifically “ the shorthand for “hydraulic fracturing, the practice of blasting through shale rock with a “cocktail of water and chemicals to [...]
Independent London-based design studio Another Studio’s enthusiasm is in making “charming products that respond to you and your environmentâ€or as they coined it: “gifts for thoughtful givers. One of their latest creations is “Pantini, a metal planthouse kit inspired by the ornate quality of Victorian art and architecture. Another Studio collaborated with Finch & Fouracre [...]
The US’ pending trade dispute with China over solar cells and modules, covered on MetalMiner on Nov. 10, looks like it will be successful in encouraging China to review its sales strategy towards finished solar panels; this comes following advice received by trade lawyers hired by Chinese firms to advise them on the Commerce Department case, the [...]
Every now and then we come across an interesting (if slightly offbeat) application for metals that we feel deserves mention. A research team led by Ganpati Ramanath, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Wollongong in Australia (no, you didn’t mis-read that — the University of Wollongong) have been working with zinc oxide to [...]
Having recently watched a documentary about three twenty-something friends from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who are deployed to Afghanistan together, called “Where Soldiers Come From, I can’t help but find the notion of preventing and protecting against improvised explosive device (IED) attacks absolutely futile. (To me, it seems almost more ludicrous for the US military to [...]
Carlos Rolon, a.k.a Dzine, is a Chicago-based artist whose mixed-media works demonstrate an eclectic craft and visual languageâ€or, as he put it: “A mixture of sculpture, paintings, and installation, the works reside in an imaginative, kaleidoscopic, and meticulous world. His studies of bikes are striking in these qualities of the “imaginative, kaleidoscopic, and meticulous. Bike [...]
