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Slower deliveries of wheat and corn feed factor into recent projections of cattle and pork production

Battery recyclers Huayou Recycling, of China, and Tozero, of Germany, have announced an agreement in which they will partner on the supply and processing of battery scrap in Europe, Fastmarkets has learned.

Copper scrap discounts in the United States continued to be steady in the week to Wednesday November 22, with sources noting little changes week on week ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt has become the first company outside China to achieve a sodium-ion battery with 160 Wh per kg of energy density, the company told Fastmarkets on Tuesday November 21.

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This week, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched option contracts on lithium hydroxide, which are cash-settled and differ from many of the CME commodity options on futures

The gloomy economic tone at the conference was compensated by the large numbers of delegates in attendance and cheerful networking. 1. Slow growth in China Slow growth in China continued to spook market participants. Those who have recently returned from trips there shared anecdotes and photographs on social media of blue skies and a lack […]

Despite this, in their discussion on manganese ore and manganese alloys, experts including Asia Minerals Limited (AML) director Gautam Kumar, Project Blue founder Jack Beddar and WoodMac research director Kevin Fowkes weighed in on the various methods for reducing carbon emissions and the challenges they pose for ferro-alloys producers. “The problem is the most hazardous […]

Zinc producer Korea Zinc has entered into a $140 million investment agreement with Trafigura to build an “all-in-one” nickel refinery, it said on Friday November 17

Report by the International Council on Clean Transportation suggests only 12.2 billion gallons of SAF would come from biomass sources deemed to be sustainable

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