GLG News by Scrap Metal Experts

Three years ago a former Chairman of an American OEM automotive company told me  that the problem with GM, Ford, and Chrysler was that they all believed originally that the Japanese would never learn how to make cars that Americans would buy, and, then, after that turned out to be false they simply...

The backbone of American manufacturing is made up of profitable, high-productivity companies in a variety of industries, which create or find a way to manufacture the latest and most relevant technologies for our health, safety, workplace productivity, or leisure. The backbone consists also of those...

Short term planning, or no planning at all, got the American owned and operated OEM Automotive industry into the predicament it is in today. Not only are the current managers of these companies not 'car-guys' they are also not manufacturing engineering or quality management 'guys.' You cannot decide...

It is incredible that anyone would consider financing the further operations of the American OEM automotive industry without insisting first that its current management be replaced as a precondition. The enabling legislation creating the facility to lend taxpayer originated funds include the following...

The North American civil rights movement has assured native Americans of their property rights and their sovereignty over the natural resources on their lands. American environmentalism has at the same time made sure that every conceivable roadblock is put in place to prevent the development of...

It seems that because he is too big for his own failure not to be noticed  on Wall Street and at his alma mater's plush New York City 'club" John Snow is blathering about how he sees a 'bailout' of his Chrysler deal as a mandatory step that the US Treasury must take. Of course, it was his own miscalculation...

General Motor's admits that "The Volt...has a range of 40 miles (when all power equipment has been turned off, including air conditioner, stereo and headlights),...."   General Motors apparently suffers from "We will build it, and they will buy it syndrome." Who now needs a short...

The rush to analogy by the mainstream media has recently brought us such oversimplifications as the comparison of modern America to ancient Rome and of Barack Obama to John F. Kennedy, but the MSM may be on to something with a description of the disappearance of interest by investors in thinly...

The critical metals for consumer electronics are all byproducts of the production of base metals. Any cut in base metal production is automatically a cut in byproduct metal production.

American OEM heavy industry is once more highlighting its worst shortcoming: A total lack of long term strategic planning to manage the risk of supply interruption of critical materials due to production limitations on natural resources. It's difficult to imagine just how urgent a company such...