Metals and alloys

  • EU safeguards extend across electrical steel supply chain

    EU safeguards now extend across the electrical steel supply chain. Provisional quotas and price thresholds also cover laminations, transformer cores, and cores incorporated into finished transformers.

  • Tata Steel seeks support after Port Talbot delay

    Tata Steel seeks additional support after Port Talbot grid delays. Electric arc furnace commissioning could now move into late 2028 or early 2029.

  • Google buys Stegra near-zero steel certificates

    Google buys Stegra near-zero steel certificates

    Google will buy Stegra certificates linked to near-zero steel production. The first-year agreement covers attributes associated with up to 91,000 tonnes of steel.

  • Empire Metals joins titanium refining research programme

    Empire Metals joins titanium refining research programme

    Empire Metals has joined an Australian titanium refining research programme. The work targets direct titanium-metal production from Pitfield-derived TiO₂ using molten-salt electrolysis.

  • EU steel projects target cleaner process heating

    European steel projects are testing cleaner industrial heating technologies now. Hydrogen burners, induction systems, heat recovery, and renewable carbon could reduce fossil-energy use across production.

  • Hemerdon tungsten mine begins ore processing

    Tungsten West has begun processing ore at Devon’s Hemerdon mine. The production milestone follows government-backed financing for the staged restart and full commissioning programme.

  • Eurobattery advances San Juan tungsten processing plant

    Eurobattery advances San Juan tungsten processing plant

    Eurobattery Minerals has completed basic engineering for San Juan processing. Orders worth several million euros are now moving into manufacture for the planned 20-tonne-per-hour Spanish tungsten plant.

  • Court backs shutdown of Taranto steelworks

    Court backs shutdown of Taranto steelworks

    Italy’s Taranto steelworks faces shutdown after its latest appeal failed. The ruling leaves its blast-furnace operations due to stop by 28 October unless the legal or industrial position changes.

  • Betolar redirects ScaleWolf funding into specialist units

    Betolar redirects ScaleWolf funding into specialist units

    Betolar is restructuring ScaleWolf funding around two specialist technology subsidiaries. The next €3 million of an existing investment commitment will support metal extraction and critical-infrastructure businesses while intellectual property remains with the listed parent.

  • Elmet acquires German refractory metals operation

    Elmet acquires German refractory metals operation

    Elmet will acquire ams OSRAM’s integrated German refractory metals business. The deal establishes its first EU manufacturing base and expands European tungsten and molybdenum processing capacity.

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