Monthly Archives
April 2016
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A U.S company has introduced its first 3D-printed titanium hip implant, the new Redapt revision acetabular fully porous cup with Conceloc technology. To support bone growth, the 3D manufacturing process…
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A rather neglected element on the Association’s Periodic Table, calcium is in fact classed as a minor metal. Say ‘calcium’ and a metallic substance does not immediately spring to mind,…
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The Critical Raw Materials Alliance recently held its bi-annual meeting in Brussels. The Alliance met with the consultants TNO, who are tasked with completing the new CRM list for 2017.…
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Continuing with the mobile phone theme, and after the previous pages’ infographics on the raw materials found in mobile devices, it is pertinent to talk about the variety and complexity…
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Dear Members From feet of snow this time in January, I believe that today, Friday, we are going to have temperatures in the low 70s Fahrenheit. We may also have…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: April 2016
Metal Nanodroplets Seek and Destroy Cancer
by Maria Cox April 25, 2016Researchers at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new drug delivery technique using biodegradable liquid metal nanodroplets to target…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: April 2016
MMTA Welcomes Australian Zirconia as New Member
by Maria Cox April 5, 2016The MMTA is pleased to welcome Australian Zirconia as a new member. Australian Zirconia Limited (AZL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Australian multi commodity mining company, Alkane Resources…
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The MMTA is pleased to welcome Holman Fenwick Willan as a new Member. Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) is an international law firm with 450 lawyers across the world. We have…
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This year’s conference has a line-up of exceptional speakers; below Professor Sybrand van der Zwaag from the Novel Aerospace Materials Group (www.novam.lr.tudelft.nl), at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft,…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: April 2016
Supply Chain Management – Beyond Conflict Mineral Reporting
by MMTA April 13, 2016As discussions on the effectiveness of Dodd-Frank continue, the EU’s Conflict Minerals Regulation rumble on, and with the recent introduction of the Modern Slavery Act in the UK (see the… -
CrucibleThe Crucible: April 2016
Tulip Madness – commodity boom and bust is not a new phenomenon
by MMTA April 13, 2016According to Mike Dash, author of Tulipomania, The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower, “ In around 1624, the Amsterdam man who owned the only dozen specimens [of a… -
Visual Capitalist produces some fanstastic infographics, and they kindly gave the Crucible permission to reproduce them. The image below shows ‘What’s inside an iPhone 6’ and as you can see…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: April 2016
Will REACH be usurped as the World’s chemical management model?
by MMTA April 13, 2016The American Chemistry Council (ACC) wants to work with its Canadian counterparts to promote a “North American model” of regulation to other countries considering enhancing their chemicals management systems. Speaking…