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Mining in the deep is an arresting prospect. It involves robotic vacuums the size of combine harvesters lowered thousands of metres onto the abyssal plains of the Pacific ocean. They [...]

NORSE LEGEND has it that the dwarves Brokkr and Eitri forged Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, after Loki bet they could not match the skill of the Sons of Ivaldi, who had [...]

IN MID-FEBRUARY Russia seemed on the verge of a revolution with a distinctly reddish tint. Alisher Usmanov, an oligarch, was developing Udokan, a copper mine in Siberia that required removing [...]

Optimizing your melt system to reach the lowest possible kilowatts (kW) and kVA of demand as part of your overall energy management program is critical to competitiveness in an industry [...]

Superalloys demand this decade continues to glide 25% lower than it did in the 1980s. Reason: Superalloys sales depend on aviation and, 'This is the great aerospace recession,' according to [...]

The unprecedented demand from China and India for metals is driving a steady rise in metal prices. The depletion of resources is fueling a race for assets and there has been a boom in mergers in the mining industry as consolidation helps reduce volatility in steel prices.

Metals buyers have gotten downright short-tempered when discussing their suppliers, who are or will be, seeing more rigorous business parameters from their metalworking clients. Atop that, buyers aren't about to [...]

Business has been improving for more than half of the buyers surveyed monthly since last autumn, but they say activity could have been even stronger lately if sufficient amounts of [...]

By Staff Fabricated metals purchasing stays strong (Buyers' near-term buying plans) -------------------------------------------- UP DOWN SAME INDEX Fabricated metals 38% 16% 46% 60.9 Transportation 30% 13% 57% 58.5 Semiconductors 28% 13% [...]

More metals buyers (77%) intend to maintain or reduce existing in-plant inventories than in the past year, even though 77% also say the ratio of in-house metal stocks in September [...]

More than three-quarters (77%) of manufacturers consider minerals and metals scarcity as a serious supply chain risk to their businesses, according to a recent study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. What's more, [...]

Forward demand, 30-days COMMODITY DIFFUSION CATEGORY PERIOD UP DOWN SAME INDEX * Molded plastics Sept 33% 8% 59% 62.8 Transportation Sept 36% 12% 52% 62.5 Energy Sept 32% 10% 58% [...]

It's boom times in the scrap metal industry, thanks to insatiable demand from the expanding Chinese economy. But no one needs to tell Louis Omellis. The La Habra metal dealer [...]

The metalworking index has been subdued since June, although post-Labor Day activity has perked up a little; still, the latest buying plans are the lowest in 11 months. Only half [...]

Over the past six years, Metal Suppliers Online, Windham, N.H., has built a network of more than 90,000 metal buyers and 2,800 metal suppliers. This system lets buyers create online [...]

The commodities market getting in boom times sooner is described looking at the increasing demand for various metals like aluminum, nickel and even lead but analysts fear that rising trends may fuel inflation. The demand for stainless steel is being driven by China while China's booming economy has meant that Japan has to import coal from Australia.

Costs of raw materials are rising much faster than end-product prices, and obtaining sufficient quantities is becoming difficult. Seventy-five percent of the metals buyers polled in February report higher prices [...]

China's demand for iron and other metals could lead to a shortage and to a halt in economic growth.

Metals buyers closed 2001 with weakest-ever optimism ratings for near-term business and metals buying plans (PURCHASING started tracking this data in 1997). Only 26% of metals buyers say business improved [...]