Mr. Jack Lifton
Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC
Member of the Industrial Council
Council Member Biography
Jack Lifton is an Independent consultant, focusing on the sourcing of nonferrous strategic metals. His work includes exploration and mining, and the recovery of metal values by the recycling of not only metals and their alloys but also of metal-based chemicals used as raw materials for component manufacturing. Mr. Lifton has more than 45 years of experience in the global OEM automotive, heavy equipment, electrical and electronic, mining, smelting, and refining industries. His background includes the sourcing, manufacturing, and sales of platinum group metal products, rare earth compounds, and ceramic specialties used to make catalytic converters, oxygen sensors, batteries, and fuel cells. Mr. Lifton is knowledgeable in locating and analyzing new and recycled supplies of 'minor metals' including tellurium, selenium, indium, gallium, silicon, germanium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, chromium, and the rare earth metals. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2006 - Unspecified
- Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC
- 2004 - 2005
- Chief Executive Officer , Jack Lifton, LLC
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Jack Lifton(?)
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Will GM tell us please if the Volt's Miles per Charge is Temperature Dependent?
January 13, 2010
GM Unveils Plans for New Hybrid, Again | www.forbes.com
Before a single Volt is sold to a real customer off of a showroom floor GM is announcing again that they are going to expand their offerings of this "extended range" hybrid powertrain in a Cadillac this time rather than as a Buick or as a Saturn the time before.I have a simple question for GM to answer before anyone at all buys a Volt.
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Underpriced Rare Earth Metals From China Have Created A Supply Crisis
December 6, 2009
Chinese pay toxic price for a green world | www.timesonline.co.uk
China has a policy of predatory pricing, which has allowed it to gain monopoly control over some strategic natural resources such as the rare earth metals. The policy has now backfired as the low revenues to Chinese producers have deprived them of the investment funds they need to not only expand production but also to maintain the production they have.The result is a massive Chinese environmental problem, which threatens all by itself to cut non Chinese end users off from their only supply.
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Is The Rare Earth Supply Crisis Due to Peak Production Capability or Capacity
September 6, 2009
A Different Environmental Threat: Peak Rare Minerals, China, and Green Technology | michaelperelman.wordpress.com
The current "crisis" in the media in the supply of rare earth metals is most likely due to nothing more sinister than mining capacity in China, the country which today produces some 97% of the world's supply of rare earth metals. There is sufficient accessible by current technology rare earth mineralization in North America, Australia, Southeast Asia ,Viet Nam, and South Africa to not only make world industry independent of China, but, ultimately, and soon, to supply China's domestic shortfalls.
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Will The Chevrolet Volt Even Be Built as A Production Model? That's The Question
September 4, 2009
Audi U.S. president Johan de Nysschen addresses Chevrolet Volt is for idiots firestorm via Facebook | www.autoblog.com
The Audi USA president is simply vocalizing what is on everyone's mind in the OEM automotive world. His basic sentiment that the Volt is an idiotic concept is widely shared wherever in the world cars are designed , built, and marketed by existing mass producers.
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The Rare Earth Security of Supply Crisis in Simplified Form
September 3, 2009
China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs | news.yahoo.com
China's domestic use of its domestic production of the rare earth metals used accross the board in and critical to many if not most green technologies has caused it to restrict exports of these rare metals for years. The economics of Chinese rare earth production caused all other world producers to cease mining them years ago. Chinese domestic demand is now approaching Chinese domestic supply. The sleepy world of natural resource use and finance now calls this hoarding.. The Chinese are not amused.
GLG Study Groups with Jack Lifton(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Mining Experts | 1521 |
| Adhesive and Sealant Experts | 481 |
| Specialty Chemical Experts | 332 |
| Ethanol Experts | 219 |
| Council Members who are Knowledgeable about Ethanol | 188 |
GLG Live Meetings with Jack Lifton(?)
Jack Lifton has not participated in any GLG Live Meetings.