The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) which is in charge of implementing REACH environmental legislation is staging its third Stakeholders’ Day at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre, Finland on 7 December. Up to 500 participants are expected.
30 October, 2009
China’s largest nickel trader is taking a 15% stake in Royal Nickel Corp, a small mining outfit led by former Inco executives including ex-CEO Scott Hand.
30 October, 2009
Former Tier One PM auto parts supplier Delphi has emerged from Chapter 11, almost four years after it filed for bankruptcy protection and signalled the start of the downward spiral that has since decimated Detroit and the US auto business.
30 October, 2009
A £1.5 million development grant to Metalysis, is to help provide 90 jobs at the speciality metals technology innovator.
30 October, 2009
Michael E Lutheran, vice president of United States Metal Powders Inc (USMP), based in Flemington, New Jersey has been elected president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) and Barton White, president of SCM Metal Products Inc, of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, was elected president of the Metal Powder Producers Association (MPPA).
30 October, 2009
Business performance at Belgian materials group Umicore improved in Q3, reflecting a combination of better than expected sales developments in most segments and the effect of cost reductions.
30 October, 2009
OM Holdings Limited (OMH) has bought a large stake in the Tshipi é Ntle manganese project in the Kalahari Basin, South Africa. It has acquired 49.9% equity from co-investors.
30 October, 2009
Metaldyne Corporation has completed the sale of substantially all of its assets to MD Investors Corporation.
27 October, 2009
Data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) shows a total of 1.3 million vehicles were sold in China during September, up 77.8% year on year.
27 October, 2009
India, with the ninth largest auto industry in the world, is becoming a major export base for the global business.
27 October, 2009
GKN’s powder metallurgy business returned to profit in June, towards the end of a half year that was described by Sir Kevin Smith, CEO of UK-based GKN plc as “very challenging”.
27 October, 2009
The online Global Powder Metallurgy Database (GPMD) has added a new section which contains more than 130 full fatigue curves for a number of Fe, Cu and C steels covering a range of material conditions and fatigue loading conditions.
27 October, 2009
Researchers from Japan have developed a method for producing metal nanowires that heats carbon nanotubes and a metal powder together in a vacuum.
27 October, 2009
Following the jailing of three people earlier this year in the wake of the conspiracy to steal trade secrets from powder-forging experts Metaldyne (Metal Powder Report, March 2009), the FBI has filed trade secrets theft charges in Detroit against a former employee of Ford.
27 October, 2009