Denmark have caught the high-speed fever
It seems like most countries in the world are building high-speed trains at the minute, you can also now add Denmark to that list. The northern European country have begun laying the tracks for their ...
It seems like most countries in the world are building high-speed trains at the minute, you can also now add Denmark to that list. The northern European country have begun laying the tracks for their ...
The 2016 nightmare is nearly over for Hanjin Shipping; Korea Line Corp, has managed to fend off competition from national rival Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and outbid them in an auction to obtain Ha...
Many experts believe the contribution of governments within East-Africa is slowing the speed of growth in the renewable energies sector. Government involvement in the design, development and operation...
Duplex stainless steels are called “duplex” because they have a two-phase microstructure consisting of grains of ferritic and austenitic stainless steel. The picture shows the yellow austenitic phase ...
The middle of 2016 was one of the worst periods of time ever encountered by the container shipping industry, several companies went bust, most notably Hanjin Shipping, and most companies were reportin...
The home of football, the United Kingdom, is soon to be home to the world’s ‘greenest stadium’. Zaha Hadid Architects won an international competition ahead of 50 other companies to award the contract...
Okay, the whole world knows that right now, China is the factory of the world. For about two decades now, China has been a manufacturing juggernaut, producing a vast amount of the products used in eve...
Leaders throughout the infrastructure industry in the United States are suddenly realising the opportunities presented by a Donald Trump leadership. Trump’s victory caused stock prices to soar for sev...
China is on course to become the world’s largest producer of industrial robots, after recent years show a phenomenal increase in domestic use and rates of production. Annual sales of Chinese-mad...
The Comex copper price surged on Wednesday in response to the highly unexpected presidential win for Donald Trump, the base metal reached a one-year high. Copper for December settlement on the Comex d...
Throughout his, to say the least controversial campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly disregarded the threat of climate change and said should (which we now know he will be) become President of the United ...
British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has publically stated her desire to forge a closer economic relationship with China, the world’s second largest economy. Britain is already the number 1 source of ...
In a move that perhaps gives the indication that Tesla is about to set its sights on European penetration, the clean-energy automobile manufacturer has announced they have agreed a deal to acqui...
The European Union has agreed to fund a gigantic solar park, set to be constructed in the renewable energy orientated country of Morocco. Due to be named the ‘Noor plant’, it is expected to be the siz...
Hyperloop One, the firm who have carried and developed the brain child of tech-innovator Elon Musk, has signed a deal with the Dubai’s head of transport. On the 8th November, the company announced tha...
An unexpected surge in coal prices has led to Chinese steel mills being forced to reduce output. Chinese steel companies have this year been under constant pressure to reduce their steel production bu...
Monday was predicted to be a quiet day for the stocks of base metals ahead of the highly anticipated US elections; however, it was anything but quiet. London Metal Exchange (LME) trading on Monday 7th...
The West-African country of Senegal has recently begun the construction of a major solar farm in the sub-Saharan desert, it is a 20MW project located in Bokhol and is called ‘Senergy2’. The project is...
Last month saw the merging of Japan’s three biggest shipping lines, in response to an increasingly competitive industry, which earlier this year saw the collapse of South Korean giant, Hanjin Shipping...
Iran, historically a nation highly dependent on crude-based fuels is looking to alter the countries regulations in a bid to attract foreign investment into renewable energies. Recent years have seen I...
Copper prices have displayed positive trends in response to recent releases of Chinese and US economic data. Copper for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange ti...
Liverpool2, one of the worlds’s most advanced shipping terminals, officially opened on Friday 4th November at the Port of Liverpool. The project has been funded by ‘Peel Ports’, one of the biggest por...
On the 3rd of November, car sharing giant Uber released a 98 page report detailing their support for a future with flying cars. Uber cited that the increasingly congested cities and technological impa...
The world’s emerging economies are seeing the price of steel slowly rise; however, their buyers remain sensitive to purchasing. Brazil – The Brazilian steel industry has seriously struggled to a...
A number of the world’s largest hotel chains are betting on Africa being their next big investment opportunity. Africa’s tourism sector is already on a momentous upwards slope and this is the obvious ...
Drones have been one of the fastest growing phenomenons in the last few years, both in terms of private and commercial use. To be the expansion into context, back in 2012 the Federal Aviation Administ...
The recently expanded and highly lauded Panama Canal has launched a new initiative named ‘Environmental Premium Ranking’, a scheme that aims to reward customers whom try their best to uphold hig...
Spanish company ‘Vortex’ are potentially about to revolutionize the renewable energies industry and more specifically, wind-energy. Vortex is an adaptation from the original wind-turbines, basically i...
Nathan Copeland, a 28 year old man from Pennsylvania, has managed to regain his sense of touch after being left paralyzed in 2004 from the chest down. Ten years later, Nathan was asked to partic...
A recent thesis published by the Swedish Uppsala University has questioned whether the rapid expansion of renewable energies enables them to be sustainable. The study found that if the materials being...
In the least surprising news of 2016, China is going to be providing further investment overseas. Kuala Lumpur is about to become home to the largest underground city in Malaysia, named the Bandar Mal...
Chu Jiang new material company semi-annual report released, the first half of 2016 achieve operating income of 3.64 billion RMB, an increase by 9%, net profit of 78.98 million RMB, an increase of 114%...
Cold Rolled Grain Oriented (CRGO) silicon steels are used for laminations of the Power Transformers. Cold Rolled Grain Oriented (CRGO) sheets will have superior magnetic properties in the direction of...
Japan’s three largest shipping companies have said ‘enough is enough’ with regards to the global decline in the shipping industry and are aiming to turnaround their countries fortunes. Nippon Yusen K....
On October 28th, Tesla made a new revelation on their next innovative move, which in truth was predicted by very few. Elon Musk, the man whom is viewed by many as the global flag bearer for green ener...
Ahead of the big industry event being held in London next week, base metals have had a predominantly encouraging week. Metals were supported across the board by a drop in the US dollar after third-qua...