GLG News by Scrap Metal Experts

Raventhorpe nickel mine has always been considered a first class deposit but it shows as difficult is nowadays even for the best equipped mining companies to deliver a project on time.

Enel's investment plan is considering the development of a mix of technologies to increase security of energy supply and bring Italy a step forward to comply with the Kyoto's goals.

Toyota is 1. Increasing the production capacity of its existing original joint venture plant with Matsushita (Panasonic) to make nickel metal hydride, NiMH, batteries for hybrid vehicles, 2. Building an additional new nickel metal hydride battery plant with Matsushita, which, when combined with...

The diversification of sources in energy production is not  a matter only correlated to the level of oil price. The current level of oil price certainly stimulate differentiation but security of supply is another driving force.

GM doesn't seem to understand battery technologies at all. Toyota's supplier of nickel metal hydride batteries has so far delivered more than 1 1/2 million of them for the Toyota hybrid fleet. Cobasys a joint venture between Chevron and Ovonic Materials-a spinoff of Energy Conversion Devices, which...

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....