Special Metals is the world’s leading innovator and manufacturer of nickel-based superalloys. With over 100 years of history and experience in the nickel industry, we have the processes and knowhow…
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The Crucible: November 2015
Securing the Material Processing Capability for Manufacturing
by MMTA November 24, 2015The second largest Blast Furnace in Europe, and the associated coke ovens, have now been shut down – for the second time in less than 10 years. Could this be… -
On July 30th, the grand opening ceremony of Tesla’s Gigafactory based outside Sparks, Nevada took place. Although nowhere near full planned capacity, this is a major step for Tesla moving…
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The mining and metals industry has an image problem. Dirty, corrupt and exploitative are words that may spring to mind in certain parts of the world. Energy intensive and polluting are probably used even more widely. However, without the mining of ores and their subsequent processing into metals, we would have no buildings, infrastructure, consumer products (not to mention anything even vaguely high-tech), we would literally still be stuck in the Stone Age.