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. He 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 - present
- Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC
- 2004 - 2005
- Chief Executive Officer , Jack Lifton, LLC
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Jack Lifton(?)
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Is The Rare Earth Supply Crisis Due to Peak Production Capability or Capacity
September 6, 2009
Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC
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...
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Will The Chevrolet Volt Even Be Built as A Production Model? That's The Question
September 4, 2009
Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC
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
Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC
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...
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Autoblog Misunderstood What Bill Ford Said About Batteries Used By Ford
August 20, 2009
Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC
Chevy Volt's 230 mpg rating, ad campaign comes under fire from Bill Ford, AdAge | green.autoblog.com
The Autoblog.com article I am analyzing is poorly edited, poorly fact-checked, and poorly written. William Clay Ford, could not have said what the article attributed to him in the context described.
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GLG Study Groups with Jack Lifton(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Injection Molding Machinery Experts | 116 |
| Adhesive and Sealant Experts | 462 |
| Heavy Duty Truck Components Manufacturing Experts | 78 |
| Specialty Chemical Experts | 332 |
GLG Live Meetings with Jack Lifton(?)
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