Titanium

MetalMiner Advisory Services: Targeted Metals Strategy and Cost Reduction Expertise

by Lisa Reisman on April 11, 2012

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MetalMiner (and our parent organization, Azul Partners) has been quietly building up a cool business the past few years. The only thing increasing faster at the moment than our revenue and cross-site traffic — we’re currently up to nearly 100,000 unique visitors and over 300,000 visits per month across our four sites — is the [...]

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Can US Manufacturing Grow in Times of Price and Policy Uncertainty?

by Taras Berezowsky on March 19, 2012

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The manufacturing world got some news late last week that is neither entirely uplifting nor completely dispiriting. The good news is that industrial production and capacity utilization did not decrease last month. The upward trend for US manufacturing continues, and we hope that it’s a sustainable one. Growth continues, but not at eyebrow-lifting rates. According [...]

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Metal Alloy Use in MOM Implants Threatened – Part Two

by Stuart Burns on March 2, 2012

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Continued from Part One. The MOM surfaces are cast and then machined to size and finally polished to a mirror finish to create a perfect fit. The idea is, a perfect fit means the surfaces should never touch each other, according to Dr. Timothy Wright, Kirby Chair of Orthopedic Biomechanics: “Just like the cylinder in [...]

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Metal Alloy Use in MOM Implants Threatened – Part One

by Stuart Burns on March 2, 2012

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The metals industry is rightly proud and producers understandably value the successful application of metal alloys in the medical implants industry. From high-purity refining through forging and casting operations, machining, coating and treating the use of titanium, cobalt, chrome and stainless steels in addition to a number of less common metals, this has been a [...]

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Best Of MetalMiner 2011 – Aerospacin’ Out

by Taras Berezowsky on December 22, 2011

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Source: planespotters.net It may indeed by a good holiday season for the likes of Boeing, as they sewed up contracts of considerable size with emerging markets, to begin supplying planes for the next couple decades. Of course, their tussles with Airbus always keep things interesting, and Chinese and Russian plane-makers are joining the game as [...]

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Steve Jobs, Man of Metal

by Lisa Reisman on October 6, 2011

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Like you, I have now read probably half a dozen pieces on the amazing contributions of Steve Jobs. A visionary, an innovator, Thomas Edison-like, perhaps our modern Albert Einstein¦we’ll leave the big thoughts to others. But in our world of metals, we have only one observation — nobody has made metals as sexy and as [...]

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The Most At-Risk Metals

by Stuart Burns on September 15, 2011

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Much has been made — maybe too much — of the dire straits the world will shortly be in when the Chinese finally choke off supplies of rare earth metals, or elements (REE) to the outside world. No one would deny REEs have many critical uses, but you can’t help wondering if there aren’t a [...]

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Titanium vs. Ceramic – The Next Big Battle in Health Care? Part Two

by Lisa Reisman on September 9, 2011

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Guest contributor Alex Burns studies biology at Cardiff University in the UK. Continued from Part One. So why is titanium used at all? Well, one of the more concerning complications is what is known as Ëœcatastrophic failure‘ with the ceramic implant. Unfortunately, being ceramic, it can crack and break much in the same way porcelain [...]

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