GLG News by Copper Pricing Trend Experts

The USA has reduced its production of natural resources to below self-sufficiency not because of a lack of ore bodies or oil, gas, and coal, or the technology to recover lower grade resources efficiently and economically, but because of a cultish adherence to an environmentalism that refuses to recognize...

Lithium cobalt oxide batteries in the sizes needed for laptop computers have been known to overheat and even burst into flame. Lithium iron phosphate batteries are known to develop internal high pressures. If the car companies are not going to tell us which technology they have chosen for lithium batteries...

The stainless steel market is strongly dependent by the Chinese market. Stainless steel production has been so far below expectations and it will be very difficult any recovery during the second half of the year. 

The American OEM automotive industry bankrupted its supply base by demanding ever increasing price concessions while absconding with the uncapitalized value of its supply bases's technology and using the stolen technology to buy low labor costs from outsourced suppliers. GM led the parade of short sighted...

Some archaeologists believe that the mediterranean bronze age was cut short, and superceeded, prematurely,  by the iron age, by the refusal of Greek and Phoenician traders to take the financial risk of obtaining tin from the distant and dangerous 'tin isles,' known now as the British Isles....

Until fairly recently the source of solar grade silicon for manufacturers of photovoltaic solar cells was excess polycrystalline silicon from processes intended to produce ultra pure silicon for the production of electronic integrated circuits (chips). This was because the processes to purify and...

The American OEM automotive industry has studiously ignored all of the market's warning signals and forced its supply base to absorb the raw material price increases stemming from huge Asian demand and a falling dollar. This was done out of fear of being priced out of their own domestic market as well...

Wind is a key alternative energy where it is available and will not cause a disruption for migratory birds. We need to keep their needs in mind as well.  However, there are many windy areas where these systems can and do work and these sites should be expanded.  In addition to this, thin film...

The American OEM automotive industry bankrupted its supply base in the last decade by refusing to accept price increases for commodities and specialty metals caused by huge increases in the demand for them from Asia. The OEM American automotive industry then replaced its bankrupt suppliers by outsourcing...

At a conference in Barcelona last month entitled "Metals in the Aerospace Industry" an industry analyst forecast a total demand for 800, 000, 000 lbs of metal to build between 8,000 and 12,000 multi-engine jet passenger aircraft by 2020. Although most of the metal to be consumed was identified as aluminum...