Scrap metal dealers have appealed to the government to urgently protect the industry, which is threatened by importation of low priced steel reinforcement and steel billet into the country.

Improving recycling is another focus, with the EC planning to set targets for recycled steel and aluminium and considering trade measures on metal scrap. The future Industrial Decarbonisation ...

The European Commission presented on Wednesday an action plan for the steel and metals industries ... able to act against the country where the metal was originally melted to eliminate the ...

It also aims to restrict countries from closing themselves off to waste metal imports, according to the paper. The Commission is set to present its final action plan on steel and metals present ...

For now, it's not known exactly what properties these exotically thin metal sheets may have, but their relatively large sizes are said to create new possibilities for practical applications.

In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, their ultra-thin metal sheets – especially one-atom-thick bismuth ...

Interestingly, the process generates oxygen instead of CO2, eliminating the emissions linked with steel production. The MOE technology was spun off as Boston Metal in 2013 to scale up the ...

MIT spinout Boston Metal has powered up its electricity driven steel production reactor and made over a ton of metal in a crucial step toward commercializing its process. With clean electricity ...

The US is particularly dependent on aluminium imports, with roughly half of the metal used in the country coming from foreign sources. The US import of steel and aluminium last year was $31bn and ...

A 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. is set to take effect Wednesday, part of President Donald Trump’s push to impose new taxes on U.S. trading partners and an expansion of ...

Using a hydraulic press containing two sapphire anvils, a team was able to create sub-nanometer thick sheets of different metals — these sheets had diameters exceeding 0.1 mm, orders of ...

Sheets of metal just two atoms thick can be produced by squashing molten droplets at great pressure between two sapphires. The researchers who developed the process say the unusual materials could ...