After initial alarm, it’s now anticipated that increased interest rates in the United States will have very little bearing on the metals markets. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wedn...
The Volkswagen Group has invested into the newly founded eRoaming platform, Hubject, as a key shareholder. The investment from Volkswagen will enable them to further enhance their grip on the electric...
In any other given year, this would arguably one of the more peculiar; however, 2016 has been the year of the unexpected. However, after years of delays and interferences, China has finally been given...
Off Grid-Electric is an African start-up company who are lighting up remote areas of Tanzania and Rwanada, enabling commercial prosperity and improvement to standards of living. Although nothing shoul...
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) the world renowned group of architects, designers, and builders have revealed the plans for their very project in Los Angeles. The said project is going to be a 242’000 squar...
The Chinese and UK friendship appears to show no signs of slowing down; the latest large-scale investment comes from a major Chinese building materials company who are looking to build six prefabricat...
The solar trade is fully aware that the election of Donald Trump as the new president of the United States was most likely going to be nothing short of disastrous for the industry. This is proving to ...
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), who is Swiss-based, has signed an agreement to enable the purchase of Hanjin Shipping’s stake of a terminal at California’s Port of Long Beach. South Korean...
Hong Kong-based shipping company, Seaspan Corporation has purchased four panama container ships form the bankrupt and helpless South Korean container carrier, Hanjin Shipping. The vessels were sold by...
The railway connecting China and Thailand looks to finally be back on track with construction scheduled to start in early 2017. The whole process has been incredibly drawn out, with the announcement o...
Base Metals continue to remain under pressure, following a turbulent November and start to December. On December 20th, prices are down an average of 0.5 percent, nickel is bucking the trend with a 0.7...
The Japanese government is debating providing support to its domestic companies whom want to invest into the UK’s nuclear programme, through financial support. The government will reportedly req...
In what is rather groundbreaking breakthrough for solar energy, it is now becoming the cheapest form of new electricity. This is not the first time it has happened, it’s been done before but only ever...
As Japan and Russia continue on their path to mending broken ties, Russia’s rail operator has seen an opportunity and is proposing a series of rail links that would ultimately connect Japan with Europ...
Thursday 15th December saw the momentum of copper halted with the price slipping, as a result of a surging dollar. Copper for March delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exch...
The Nigerian government are planning on constructing a six-lane “superhighway” through a rainforest in the southeast of the West-African country; however, the proposal is being heavily contested by co...
The city of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, is about to become home to a 220 bedroom hotel, constructed entirely from containers. Hotel chain ‘Holiday-Inn’ claim they are one of the first in the No...
The European Union and China do not appear to be any closer in solving their differences over China’s output of steel. The European Union has now launched a fresh investigation into whether corrosion-...
Researchers from a number of universities across Japan have created a prototype for a robot that has the ability to increase chances of rescue and survival in disaster situations. The robot performs r...
The U.S. solar market obliterated previous records for solar photovoltaic installations in the thirds quarter of 2016. 4’143 megawatts of solar PV were installed, which equates to an incredible one me...
The UK has been left slightly red faced today; after it emerged they spent a whopping £286 million on an airport that is located on an Island they own in the south of the Atlantic Ocean. The price is ...
The Port of Sydney in Nova Scotia, Canada, is likely to become the first in North America to have the capacity to accommodate the largest shipping containers in the world, if the proposed and highly s...
Toronto based architectural firm, Office OU, has been announced as the winner of an international contest to turn the administrative capital of South Korea in a ‘global culture city’, which will have ...
In what is no doubt unwelcomed news from the rest of the world, November saw China’s steel mills boost their monthly output at the fastest rate in two years. An increase in infrastructure demand has e...
The United States has officially opened its first off-shore wind farm, which opens up a new avenue of clean energy for the world’s biggest economy. GE and Deepwater Wind have partnered to build ...
Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) have all joined an agreement which will see the 3 companies enter a collaborative period of strategic business opera...
The governor of the state of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, has announced that $3.6 million of funding will be made available to help increase solar energy access. The funding is being made available to i...
Tokyo’s Haneda airport will be undergoing some large-scale construction work, in preparation for much larger amounts of traffic at the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. The government are expecting to se...
According to Savills, one of the largest estate agents in the United Kingdom, the Brexit vote is going to lead to a significant slump in the construction industry, with as much as 50% of planned devel...
The price of copper hit an 18-month high for a brief period last week; the high was met as a reaction to continued growth in the global manufacturing industry, in addition to Donald Trump’s $500 billi...
China do not really do things in small measures, do they? They go really big and make a huge mess of it, like that huge straddling bus that glides over traffic and was the ‘next big thing’ but now lie...
One of the main points that are often brought up by sceptics of renewable energies and solar panels is the fossil fuels used to produce them; however, recent studies find that solar panels produced in...
Pruce Newman has recently completed a new set of qualified welding procedure specifications specifically for duplex and superduplex stainless steels. The procedures, assessed by Lloyd’s Register, are ...
There are four steel plate cutting methods basically, they are flame cutting, laser cutting, waterjet cutting and plasma cutting, which can deal with any steel plates with any thickness. Some are suit...
In order to understand the operational status of copper bars production enterprises, this week the research team conducted a follow-up survey of 10 production enterprises in Month of 8 and 9. Among, 3...
As emissions from shipping continue to rise, along with those of aviation, it is anticipated that they could cancel up to half of the savings made my all other forms of transport in Europe, by 2030. A...