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Straight Talking - Silicon Offset and the Green Debate
White Paper Not only do the products consume precious metals and other resources, but the manufacturing processes are energy intensive and systems or components are rarely sourced locally, as cheaper alternatives are often found on... [21 Feb 2009]
Momentum Webcast: Process ERP Solutions: Switch to Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX (Level 100)
White Paper This webcast is designed for manufacturers in process industries (food, beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, primary metals, etc.who have aging Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and are justifying an upgrade... [09 Dec 2008]
Photos: Tomorrow's tech showcased by inventors
Photo The so-called "magnetocaloric" metals, such as gadolinium alloys, heat up when exposed to a magnetic field. It exploits a recent scientific breakthrough that allows magnetocaloric metals to work at room... [18 Sep 2008]
Global Metals Supplier Links Offices With Video Conferencing and Instant Messaging
White Paper Helsinki-based Rautaruukki Corporation supplies metal-based components and systems to the construction and mechanical-engineering industries. It provides items as various as pipes, beams, rainwater systems, guardrails, and hot-rolled... [20 Feb 2008]
MANAGEM Introduces New Business Efficiencies Using Integrated Technology
White Paper The mining and hydrometallurgical group MANAGEM produces and sells cobalt, base metals, and metal derivatives. The company wanted to reduce heavy system integration overhead related to cost and labor and introduce... [05 Sep 2007]
Infor engineers £500k contract with Hayley Group
News The Infor Distribution Essentials software will streamline the processing of Hayley's sales and purchase orders, covering stock such as bearings, seals, metals and lubricants worth in excess of £12m, by enabling its... [10 Aug 2007]
E-Marketplace Slashes Costs While Improving Performance and Ease of Use
White Paper Quadrem is the primary electronic marketplace for the worldwide mining, minerals, metals, oil, and gas industries. It brings together natural resources companies and thousands of suppliers to simplify the procurement... [20 Jun 2007]
How tech can make us greener
Comment Not only do the products consume precious metals and other resources but the manufacturing processes are energy-intensive and systems or components are rarely sourced locally as cheaper alternatives are often found on... [24 May 2007]
Has NEC sorted your hot and bothered hardware?
News However, although scientists have sought to solve the problem by using heat-conducting materials instead of ordinary plastics, metals are unsuitable as they heat up too quickly, and until now heat-conductive plastics... [11 Apr 2007]
UN digs into 'e-scrap' mountain
News As well as the gold, palladium and silver found in high-tech rubbish, other metals involved include indium (used in flatscreen monitors and mobile phones), bismuth (used in lead-free solders) and ruthenium (used in... [07 Mar 2007]
Photos: How old PCs can bridge the digital divide
Photo Martins explains that many components, such as metals from a motherboard, can be re-used and says Kenya's growing population of skilled electricians is finding uses for many power supply units, cables and wiring which... [12 Feb 2007]
Profitable Growth: Best Practices for the Fabricated Metals Industry
White Paper Fabricated metals industry is unforgiving. The fabricated metals industry - including metals service centers, suppliers, and consumer products manufacturers - is dominated primarily by... [22 Dec 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: My Christmas wish list
Comment efficient that don't entail the use of nasty metals and chemicals to produce? Written on BA0048 flying from London to Seattle and dispatched to silicon.com via a free LAN service provided by my Seattle hotel [20 Dec 2006]
E-trading glitch delays launch on metals exchange
News The London Metal Exchange (LME) has delayed the launch of new contracts following an outage of its electronic trading system earlier this month. The exchange was planning to launch trading for small contracts of copper, aluminium and... [15 Nov 2006]
Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?
News And if things improve, if landfill levels of toxins, hazardous substances, heavy metals and plastics decrease, and boxes on environmental and corporate and social responsibility charters are ticked then who really cares? [16 Mar 2006]
