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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...

  During  the  early  1970's  the  coal  industry  started  to  expand  and  found  that  not  only  was  there  a  shortage  of  engineers  and  technical  people  but ...

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...

If scrap dealers were made to account for the purchase of their wares; i.e., to affirm that their seller had leagl title to the goods, then the US scrap industry's small, family type businesses, would fail.

The first industrial revolution in the west highgraded out the world's then known and accessible metal ores and energy minerals. Extraction and refining technologies have since kept up with the declining grades of ores and minerals accessible with today's infrastructures and machinery. But finally,...

The CEO of Toyota, the one and only only global car company with experience at mass producing vehicles using hybrid, gasoline-electric, power trains said, just a month ago that the lithium-ion battery is not ready for mass production. GM has received, so far, after an investment of , perhaps, one billion...