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...Luxury custom-made, hand-finished metal furniture and lighting company Novocastrian, based in Newcastle, states proudly on its website: “We are the sons and daughters of the Northern shipbuilders and coal...
...Traditionally, the main body of a car has been made by welding or stamping together a large number of separate parts....
...The real excitement hinges on a technological development that it would enable: lithium metal anodes....
...If Foxconn, for example, needs to install sonic welders — a process to merge different metals or plastics with ultrasonic energy — it can call up any number of firms to run the line and hire the labour....
...But Tesla does not just bash metal, however elegantly....
...Additional reporting by Ella Hermonio in Manila A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 27 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...In June 2018, US Customs and Border Protection agents in Philadelphia seized a shipment of 108 fakes from Hong Kong....
...Last week, the passenger terminal was filled with grinding cement mixers and sparking welding machines. Outside, cranes towered over piles of stone and twisted metal....
...It forecasts a fifth of the world’s top 100 consumer goods companies will use 3D printing to create custom products by then....
...The rhetoric for the first time has reached a level where it is real,” said Peter Quinter, chair of the customs law committee of the American Bar Association, whose clients include Chinese exporters to US...
...For the full year Cargill’s revenue was 2 per cent higher at $109.7bn, lifted by greater sales of grain, oilseeds and metals....
...Last year it bought Five Star Custom Foods, a producer of cooked meats....
...In 2012, GM developed a breakthrough welding technique for the metal, used on its Cadillac CT6, which it says can eliminate nearly two pounds of rivets....
...Glencore will deliver precious metals in amounts indexed against copper production at the Peruvian Antapaccay mine to purchaser Franco-Nevada....
...During the same 10-year period, £100,000 invested in the precious metal — the classic haven in troubled times — would be worth slightly more than £310,000....
...It is a bold stance in the face of falling oil, grain and metal prices. A rebuttal comes from Kevin Norrish, head of commodity research at Barclays....
...Recently, legitimate shipments from a paper factory were held by customs at the Batam port because of a rule meant to stop the export of illegally sourced wood....
...The secret to welding is using your ears. A good weld has a consistent crackle, like frying bacon. If you don’t hear that sound, the welding gun is too far away from the metal....
...Also called additive manufacturing, 3D printing involves building products up in thin layers from their constituent particles of plastic or metal – in contrast to conventional manufacturing, where materials...
...Ed Black, a partner at Ropes & Gray who specialises in media law, said: “[Both sides] know and agree that we can’t do these deals by custom fabricating expensive transactions with legal teams every time...
...Firth had recently invested in equipment for isothermal welding of components, which allows them to withstand higher temperatures. Hotter engines are more efficient and consume less fuel....
...on the items’ exports by Chinese customs....
...But, under the paint on Ford’s new F-150, the body was made of aluminium — a metal that had never before been used on a vehicle produced in such high volumes....
...JLR’s aluminium Range Rovers, each held together by 3,722 rivets, require no welding, thereby reducing energy use and cooling requirements at the factory....
...Australia’s dollar declined with copper prices, while precious metals rebounded....
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