Machine Industries

Profiteering or Profitability? What domestic steel industry wants from price hike A variety of responses and feedback from end-using sectors, policy planners, industry associations are filling up the pages. Steel production through BF-BOF route uses iron ore of 1.65 tonne and coking coal of around 750 kg per tonne of steel. Steel pricing continues to occupy a centrepiece in the media for the last few weeks. A variety of responses and feedback from end-using sectors, policy planners, industry associations are filling up the pages. It is difficult to take a dispassionate view on the issue from the producers’ or users’ points...

ITAC introduces changes to steel industry prices In an effort to improve access to affordable scrap metal for the domestic steel and other metal producing industry, the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) has introduced changes to the Price Preference System (PPS). Image source: www.pexels.com This comes after the commission finalised an initial investigation into the supply of scrap metal as an input to the domestic steel producing industry.In a statement on Monday, 5 October, the commission, which is an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (dtic), said the PPS was first introduced in 2013 to promote the affordable supply...

DoD awards Desktop Metal $2.45 million for high-volume AM of cobalt-free hard metals   Desktop Metal’s Production System with Single Pass Jetting will be used to mass manufacture complex-shaped Co-free hard metal parts as part of the project (Courtesy Desktop Metal) Desktop Metal, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, has been awarded Phase I of a three-year $2.45 million project by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to develop an Additive Manufacturing process that is capable of mass-producing cobalt-free hard metals, developed by the US Army.  The company’s Production System™ with Single Pass Jetting (SPJ™), a proprietary binder jet Additive Manufacturing technology developed by...

INDUSTRY CALLS FOR TOUGHER ACTION ON WEEE TREATED AS SCRAP METAL Hazardous waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is being handled as scrap metal across Europe due to insufficient regulation and monitoring. According to the WEEE Forum, operators of WEEE collection and processing sites are not accurately documenting and managing WEEE. In a report, ‘WEEE in metal scrap: Issues associated with the treatment of WEEE as metal scrap and how to address them', the industry body finds that producer responsibility organisations (PROs) are not getting reliable information about the amount of WEEE that is sent on as scrap metal without adequate...

Fujitsu reunió a directivos de banca, aseguradoras y retail en su plática“Innovación Centrada en las Personas, la Co-creación para el éxito”   Durante el encuentro, se compartió entre los asistentes cómo la Co-creación facilita a las grandes organizaciones a innovar, impulsar el crecimiento y reducir costos, mejorando al mismo tiempo, la experiencia de consumidores y ciudadanos. Presentaron los casos de éxito de Fujitsu con la aseguradora GNP y el banco Bradesco.   Ciudad de México a 19 de febrero de 2019 – Fujitsu e IDC reunieron a importantes directivos del sector de banca, asegurador y retail en su plática “Innovación...