Metal News

United States: Igus Inc., a company that manufactures scientific instruments and metal equipments that are used for researching and testing particle sciences, has developed a technology that uses linear bearings. The linear bearings that have been utilized by the company in the technology have helped it in lowering costs by a significant

Oxford: The ball bearings manufacturer, RBC Bearings, was given a 5-star rating based on the 180,000 investors participating in the Motley Fool CAPS, a free investing community. All the 125 members who rate the ball bearings company believed that the RBC stocks will outperform in the S&P 500

USA: According to the Standard and Poor’s GSCI Spot Index, the price of 24 raw metals fell drastically this year, a sign that the global economic slowdown is lessening the demand for raw metals and metal products. The index shows that the price fell by almost 1.5 percent

Chile: In a bid to produce and promote the use of clean copper energy in Chile, Xstrata Copper has partnered with Origin Energy Limited whereby by Origin Energy will have 51% stake in Xstrata Copper’s Energia Austral hydroelectric development company, located in Chile. Origin Energy has the experience and expertise track record

New Delhi: A number of farm shows and exhibitions are being held this year, all around the world. One such exhibition/trade show was held this month at Naid Khai, Sumbal. During the fair, the Joint Director, Agriculture shared various interesting ways of using metal products such as farm machinery as well as scientific methods

China: In the audit performed by the National Audit Office in China, it has come to light that the country’s major national gas pipeline and earthquake reconstruction projects were using improper activities. Fraudulent activities have been detected in the way how the pipeline’s components were being sourced

United States: FashionSeating.com has recently introduced metal products in form of metal seating options for various markets. These seatings are made of solid metal bars to give them both durability and modish look. The collection is available online at the company’s retail website

United States: Even though the metal product manufacturing industry has shown some signs of improvement, it has not yet become stable. The demand for galvanized steel and steel metal sheets is still extremely poor. The setback that the residential and commercial construction sectors have been facing is largely due to the lull

As the Chinese economy drives on its growth from low-cost and high production of metal products, Chattanooga companies like Metal Working solutions are gaining strength from their efficiency in metal working processes such as metal-cutting as well as designing and shaping metals. The company Metalworking Solutions custom-cuts

San Francisco: The Synopsys vendor declared last week that their StarRC parasitic extracting tool has been given certification and recognition by the United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) for their 28 nanometer processing technologies. Based in Mountain View, California, Synopsys representatives