October 2022

MMTA 49th Anniversary Dinner The MMTA 49th anniversary dinner will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 25 October 2022 at the magnificent De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London. The beautiful…

Dear Members I’m back! And it is great to be writing to you again. Robust supply chains for, and an adequate supply of, strategic and critical materials are, once more,…

Forging ahead with titanium   As US seeks to cut its dependence in titanium, critical for aviation and military industries, on imports, particularly from Russia, long overdue investments in domestic…

In this submission to the Crucible on the subject of critical materials underpinning energy transition, Project Blue focusses on cobalt.  While there are numerous challenges facing the cobalt supply chain,…

    As one who pays superficial attention to the booming battery industry, I’m struck by the frequency with which new technologies are touted that are “set to replace lithium-ion…

The rising fuel and energy costs have created a crunch for UK businesses and energy intensive industries in particular. The MMTA asked the department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy…

Growing demand for batteries means that significant volumes of batteries deployed to transport, portable and energy storage system applications will reach their end-of-life in the coming decades, posing the question:…

Aerospace Airbus pushed ahead of Boeing on in Q3, delivering 140 passenger aircraft including 46 in July, 39 in August and 53 in September. This compared with 112 deliveries from…

  Whether we’re talking about metal trading or the MMTA’s medical charity,  Friends of Mufulira, perseverance can make all the difference. In the case of Friends of Mufulira (FOM), we…

This month’s feature analysis from China Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Association  (CNIA) and China’s leading mining and metal industry consultancy Bejing Antaike Information examines China’s growing presence in  global  ITO target…

Part 9: Weighing words (not metal) Retired  metal merchant, Anthony Lipmann, illuminates trading for the young entering the world of metals. It’s a funny old thing – the metal trade.…

MMTA member Wuhan Xinrong New Materials Co Ltd has rebranded as TuocaiTech. TuocaiTech’s new member page is here As the world transitions to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, TuocaiTech enables the…

We regret to inform you that the MMTA board has received the resignation of Donna Vareha-Walsh as chair of the MMTA, effective from 7th October 2022. Donna has moved to…

We are pleased to announce that John E Porter has been approved to join the MMTA Board of Directors.  His position is subject to being ratified at the MMTA’s next…

Can crypto be security? In Tulip Trading v Bitcoin Association for BSV,[1] the High Court considered whether to order security in the form of digital assets such as Bitcoin. Background…

On 26 September, the UK government placed new sanctions in connection with the war in Ukraine on several Russian businessmen “for supporting or obtaining benefit from the Government of Russia…

Background The case arose out of a JV for the operation of a Russian coalmine with 3 investors, including NDK, which held a 75% share in an SPV registered in…