On April 15, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Apr. 7-13) the overall average finished steel price in China rose by 0.6 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Finished Steel, Steel
Just weeks remain before companies registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must disclose whether they are receiving tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and, if so, ...
Tags: Conflict Minerals, tantalum
The Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), a U.S. Department of Energy-Energy Frontier Research Center led by the University of Delaware, has announced a two-year program with ExxonMobil to research renewable chemicals from biomass. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals
Las Vegas Market announced that six leading suppliers of gift merchandise will open or expand showrooms for the upcoming Summer Market from July 27- 31, 2014, further increasing the number of major industry suppliers presented in Las Vegas ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Association Connecting Electronics Industries, recently published IPC-1755, Conflict Minerals Data Exchange Standard, to help suppliers and their customers effectively facilitate conflict minerals data exchange along the entire global ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Las Vegas Market announced that six leading suppliers of gift merchandise will open or expand showrooms for the upcoming Summer Market, July 27 -31, 2014, further increasing the number of major industry suppliers presented in Las Vegas ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Conflict minerals reporting may be a significant challenge for executives this spring as many companies are just in the early stages of compliance exercises as the May 31 SEC filing deadline approaches, according to a report released ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
RoHS directive to exclude the contents of the original February 12, 2003 e Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium, which are exempted from the requirements of Article 4(1) 1. Mercury in compact fluorescent ...
Tags: RoHS certification, certification, RoHS
As already introduced introduced ROHS certified, ROHS certification and ROSH test the scope of the process, which far is not enough, we choose to do so when ROSH certification body, the most important thing is to consider the cost of ROHS ...
Tags: RoHS certification, certification, RoHS
As metal prices plunged on the eve of the financial crisis in September 2008, Peru's billionaire Brescia family paid about $400 million to buy the world's largest tin deposit in the Amazon jungle. Now their mining company Minsur SA sits ...
Tags: Tin, metal, Metallurgy, Mineral
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 3,250,000 net tons (nt) of steel in February, including 2,240,000 nt of finished steel (up 1.4 percent ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, finished steel
Starting next month, publicly traded U.S. companies will have to report their use of certain minerals and their derivatives to the government. As an article (“Conflict minerals and corporate supply chains: The challenge of complying ...
MALVERN, PA, Feb 27, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — Vishay Intertechnology today announced that it will be showcasing its latest industry-leading solutions at the 2014 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, taking ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The conflict mineral issue is providing a perfect storm for social change. It’s also leading electronics company CEOs to understand with great discomfort just how little they truly know about their supply chains. It’s a ...
Toy enthusiast made it his mission to rescue the toys from failing toys shops or broken stock departments of factories as a child. A collection of over 2,000 vintage tin plate toys saved from struggling shops and factories is tipped to ...
Tags: Vintage Toys, Auction, Toys