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Waste management & recycling
Fraud rocks global recycling and metals industry
...The suspected thefts sent shockwaves through the global metals industry following a host of other scandals, with two separate nickel frauds that have affected commodity trader Trafigura and warehouse operator...
January 18, 2024
Trafigura
Metals tycoon Gupta says Trafigura ‘devised’ $590mn nickel fraud scheme
...not prepared to extend credit for trades of nickel with purity of less than 99.8 per cent (i.e. trades of anything other than nickel)”....
July 12, 2023
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
Letter
Letter: US policy on Indonesian nickel is not a surprise
...In short, very little, if any, Indonesian production can compete with non-Russian battery grade (class 1) nickel produced from sulphides when it comes to ticking the “E” (environmental) box of the strict...
April 14, 2023
Electric vehicles8 min
The end of the combustion engine? | FT Energy Source
...Within road transport, e-fuels are e-fools in my view. So we're really fooling ourselves that they will help Europe compete with Chinese batteries because they're simply so inefficient....
December 19, 2023
Electric vehicles
Indonesia’s nickel riches spur local company EV, battery ambition
...Electrum is partnering with Taiwanese e-scooter maker Gogoro and the Indonesian state-owned manufacturer of Gesits e-scooters for the procurement, but is also planning to build its own production facility...
February 12, 2023
Electric vehicles
Ford gambles on $4.5bn Indonesia nickel plant with Chinese partner
...“This framework gives Ford direct control to source the nickel we need — in one of the industry’s lowest-cost ways,” said Lisa Drake, vice-president for EV industrialisation for Ford Model e....
March 30, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
David Strain
Vaping as a cure for smoking has brought its own ills
...Some legal products contain nickel, tin and lead at very small doses: long term, when inhaled, this may be associated with lung disease. The effects are unknown at this stage....
June 2, 2023
News in-depthNews in-depth3 min
Recycling the world’s hard drive waste | FT Rethink
...And important substances, such as neodymium and dysprosium, nickel, and palladium are often not retrieved....
February 13, 2023
Trade Secrets
The coming disputes over trade in electric vehicles Premium content
...A paper by Simon Lester for the Baker Institute looks at the history of industrial policy in the US and its potential for going wrong. Trade Secrets is edited by Jonathan Moules...
April 24, 2023
Ford Motor Co
Ford to license electric vehicle battery tech from China’s CATL
...Ford and CATL agreed last year that the Mustang Mach-E vehicle would begin using CATL batteries this year, followed by the F-150 Lightning truck in 2024....
February 13, 2023
Strategic Petroleum Reserve USA
Reimagining the SPR
...Its supremacy is even more profound in processing — China processes over 35 per cent of the world’s nickel, 58 per cent of lithium, and 70 per cent of cobalt....
February 24, 2024
Automobiles
GM invests $650mn in US lithium mine to secure EV battery materials
...Ford on Monday cut prices on its Mustang Mach-E, following Tesla’s lead from earlier in the month....
January 31, 2023
Due Diligence
The new rainmakers on Wall Street Premium content
...How one hedge fund made $1.3bn on vaping When e-cigarette maker Njoy filed for bankruptcy in 2016, some well- known faces in the investment and music world got burnt....
March 8, 2023
Live news updates from April 27: Poland and Bulgaria receive gas from EU neighbours, Archegos founder Hwang hit by US fraud charges
LME chief pivots on crypto role to stay at helm of metals exchange
...However, the LME said on Wednesday that Farnham would instead retire and its chief financial officer Catherine Lester was leaving to pursue “other opportunities”....
April 27, 2022
Commodities
Commodities go crazy: nickel edition
...., the world’s largest nickel and stainless steel producer....
March 8, 2022
FT Live
Commodities Global Summit 2025
The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers
Monday, 24 March 2025Lausanne, Switzerland
London Metal Exchange Ltd
LME chief to stay put after ditching move to crypto start-up
...nickel scandal....
April 27, 2022
FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
Ukraine’s president: ‘Stalemate is not an option’
...Th e FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
June 8, 2022
Electric vehicles
Carmakers try to frustrate US push to cut China from EV supply chain
...The Michigan carmaker said in July that CATL, the Chinese battery manufacturer, will supply batteries for the Mustang Mach-E car next year and for the F-150 Lightning truck in 2024....
November 22, 2022
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: China’s pandemic pandemonium threatens western business Premium content
...We feel measured optimism towards Lygend Resources, a Chinese trader and miner of nickel, a material essential for EV batteries....
November 25, 2022
Batteries
Carmakers take control of supply sourcing as battery costs rise
...Soaring prices for battery raw materials — such as lithium, cobalt and nickel — have led commodities research provider BloombergNEF to predict the reversal of a long-held trend towards cheaper cells, which...
October 10, 2022
Architecture
The house of concrete poetry: Eileen Gray’s E-1027 restored
...E-1027 (E for Eileen and code for the positions of her and Badovici’s initials in the alphabet, J, B and G) wears its nautical influence on its sleeve....
November 26, 2021
The Big Read
Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse
...“We shred everything with data on it, there are no exceptions,” says Greg Rabinowitz, president of Urban E Recycling, an electronics disposal company in Florida....
October 6, 2022
John Dizard
Lithium price squeeze adds to cost of the energy transition
...Professor Donald Sadoway of MIT, a specialist in battery technology, says “Even ARPA-E (the US energy research agency) wants go-to-market plans and only happy endings.”...
February 5, 2022
UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
Are oil stocks still cheap? Premium content
...(Ethan Wu) One good read The nickel market simply stopped working last week. If you haven’t kept up with this bonkers story, Bloomberg Businessweek has a great rundown stuffed with new reporting....
March 15, 2022
Sarah O'Connor
Not all green jobs are safe and clean
...Researchers in the US have found workers in e-waste recycling centres with overexposure to lead and cadmium....
October 26, 2021

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