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Powdermet Inc. has secured partnerships with the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Energy Department to move toward commercialization of its EnCom energetic nanocomposites and MComP microcomposite materials for use in high-density energy storage and energy-efficient mechanical bearing markets.
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Employment in metals was mixed last month, with primary metals down as fabricators logged a gain.
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A bill designed to tackle currency manipulation has been introduced into the Senate just months after similar legislation was brought into the House of Representatives.
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AMM’s offices will be closed Monday, May 27, in observance of Memorial Day, and there will be no issue dated Tuesday, May 28.
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The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an anti-dumping duty investigation into imports of prestressed concrete steel rail tie wire from China, Mexico and Thailand.
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New York-based commodities broker INTL FCStone Inc. has bought out electronic trading platform Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX), the trader said May 14.
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The trade deficit between iron and steel mill product imports and exports, valued at $544 million, fell 20 percent in March after growing 11.5 percent in February as imports declined at more than twice the rate of exports, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Fundamental problems with U.S. trade policy—particularly when it comes to defining "injury"—are resulting in an uneven playing field in the battle against imports, steelmakers said.
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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is requesting comments on negotiations with Japan about the in-development Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
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President Barack Obama nominated two new members to his cabinet May 2.
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Private equity and trading firms are stepping up their merger-and-acquisition activity in the mining sector, which is seeing its traditional investment patterns evolve and change, according to a managing director at BNP Paribas SA.
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Mining firms need to cut costs in order to increase their ability to borrow money, James Verraster, chief executive officer of Auramet Trading LLC, said.
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There are a couple of key investment "sweet spots" in mining projects, both of which are prior to the production stage, Douglas Groh, a portfolio manager and senior research analyst at Tocqueville Asset Management LP, said.
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Mining companies either failed to recognize or ignored the risks associated with developing projects and are now paying the penalty, Cowen Securities LLC analyst Adam Graf said.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. made some members of its metals sales desk in London redundant this past week in the latest in a series of departures from major banks and brokerages, market sources have told AMM sister publication Metal Bulletin.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is seeking input for a newly initiated investigation into the probable economic effects of duty-free imports under a proposed U.S.-European Union Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement.
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Seven of nine prime and scrap metal price indices tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics declined month on month in March, and all but one index was weaker year on year.
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Primary metal producers and fabricators both registered employment gains in March compared with the previous month, but results were mixed in a year-on-year comparison.
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The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is seeking public comment on a proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement with the European Union.
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Ohio’s budgetary oversight board has approved the release of $1 million from the Clean Ohio Assistance Fund to remediate the now-shuttered RG Steel LLC plant in Steubenville, Ohio.
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A bill to hold currency manipulators accountable was introduced in the House of Representatives March 20.
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In the final result of an anti-dumping duty administrative review of imports of innerspring units from China from Feb. 1, 2011, to Jan. 31, 2012, the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a weighted-average dumping margin of 234.51 percent to Tai Wa Hong Group, including entities Tai Wa Commerce & Industrial (Macau) Co. Ltd. and Macau Commercial & Industrial Spring Mattress Manufacturer.
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RBC Capital Markets has appointed Bruce Garner managing director and head of metals.
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Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Demetrios Marantis assumed the top post at the federal agency March 15.