The imperative need for sustainable development has driven the integration of the circular economy into strategic agendas across diverse industries. The circular economy offers a promising approach to mitigating environmental impacts, reducing costs, and generating alternative revenue streams...

Human-driven changes threaten environmental and economic stability, prompting the formulation of sustainability objectives and innovation efforts to mitigate the negative impacts of economic activities. However, the pace of this transition is often seen as slow, and businesses' commitment to...

Based on payroll data of blue-collar male workers in the UK's engineering and metal working industries between the mid-1920s and mid-1960s, this paper investigates piecework-timework pay differentials through time. The period covers several pre-Depression years, the Great Depression, the run up...

Platinum group metals (PGMs) include platinum, palladium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium. They are excellent catalysts and indispensable for hydrogen technologies. They play a key role in hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers, enabling the conversion of hydrogen into electricity and vice versa....

Magnesium (Mg) is the lightest structural metal, offering a high strength-to-weight ratio, making it ideal for automotive, aerospace and defence applications. It is widely used in lightweight vehicle parts to improve fuel efficiency and performance, aircraft components, missile casings....

Magnesium (Mg) is the lightest structural metal, offering a high strength-to-weight ratio, making it ideal for automotive, aerospace and defence applications. It is widely used in lightweight vehicle parts to improve fuel efficiency and performance, aircraft components, missile casings....

Our European Union was built on a community of coal and steel. Today, this sector is a key building block of Europe's green and digital transition and defence capabilities, and more broadly of the EU's economic security and social stability.

In its updated 2021 industrial strategy, the Commission proposed a series of transition pathways to be developed jointly with EU Member States, industry and other stakeholders. These pathways identify the actions needed to achieve the twin green and digital transition, while giving a better...

Boron (B) is used in permanent neodymium magnets, in high-performance glass for e.g. photovoltaic panels, and chip production. Boron fibres and composites are used in aerospace structures, armour and ballistic-resistant materials. Boron can be extracted from open-pit mines and from brines.

Boron (B) is used in permanent neodymium magnets, in high-performance glass for e.g. photovoltaic panels, and chip production. Boron fibres and composites are used in aerospace structures, armour and ballistic-resistant materials. Boron can be extracted from open-pit mines and from brines.

Platinum group metals (PGMs) include platinum, palladium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium. They are excellent catalysts and indispensable for hydrogen technologies. They play a key role in hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers, enabling the conversion of hydrogen into electricity and vice versa....

Die Ergebnisse dieser Studien repräsentieren die Bilanz- sowie Kennzahlenstruktur der Metalltechnischen Industrie. Die Daten basieren auf der Bilanzdatenbank der KMU Forschung Austria. Die Kennzahlen beziehen sich auch auf einzelne Sub-Sektoren der Branche. Die aktuellsten Zahlen beziehen sich...

Für die Entwicklung des Wirtschaftsstandorts Deutschland ist die Metall- und Elektrobranche von zentraler Bedeutung. Sie leistet wichtige Beiträge im Bereich Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Beschäftigung. Aufgrund ihrer hohen Forschungs-, Entwicklungs- und Innovationstätigkeit für die...

We assess the degree of connectedness among 16 metals that are critical for the production of clean energy technologies. These commodities are the constituents of the Energy Transition Metals (ETMs) price index maintained by the International Monetary Fund and comprise base, precious, and minor...

This research was conducted to recover useful products from waste tyre and explore the possibility of using these products as a petrochemical feedstock alternative. Waste tyre sample was pyrolyzed over three different temperatures: 400, 550 and 750 oC. The char, oil and gas yields at the three...

Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...

This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...

We assess the degree of connectedness among 16 metals that are critical for the production of clean energy technologies. These commodities are the constituents of the Energy Transition Metals (ETMs) price index maintained by the International Monetary Fund and comprise base, precious, and minor...

"The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming families confront an agrarian crisis, with rising costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, low...

This Discussion Paper deals with the issue of greenwashing, i.e. the false portrayal of companies as environmentally friendly. The analysis focuses on the US metal industry, which is a major emission source of sulfur dioxide (SO2), one of the most harmful air pollutants. One way to monitor the...

This paper examines how the collective bargaining parties of the German metal and electrical industry, Gesamtmetall and IG Metall, portrayed the Corona crisis in the public sphere. The empirical basis consists of press releases, guest contributions by the chairpersons and press interviews. The...

This study investigates technical efficiency of wood and metal manufacturing enterprise in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopian, using cross sectional data collected from 220 manufacturing enterprise. To achieve the objective of the study the stochastic frontier production function estimated to obtain...

The boost up of soil heavy metal pollution has severely affected the sustainable development of agriculture in China. It is essential to control and resolve the dilemma of deteriorating soil health due to pollution of heavy metals. The contribution of sources and relative sources of heavy metals...

This Discussion Paper deals with the issue of greenwashing, i.e. the false portrayal of companies as environmentally friendly. The analysis focuses on the US metal industry, which is a major emission source of sulfur dioxide (SO2), one of the most harmful air pollutants. One way to monitor the...

Many studies have found that bioretention systems are very effective in reducing heavy metal content. However, their long-term treatment performance, as well as the heavy metal variations in the systems are rarely explored. This paper reports a field study that the accumulation of chromium (Cr),...

The wide application of alkaline water electrolysis is significantly restricted by the lack of highly efficient catalyst that can withstand an industrial current density (400 mA cm −2 ) for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, a simple “chemical...

Metallic glass composites (MGCs) inherit the high strength of their glassy matrix and exhibit remarkable plastic deformation, hence have great potential in engineering applications. However, their preparation often relays on arduous component exploration or involves elusive technological...

This work investigates the effect of noble metal doping of MoSe2 on its adsorption of ammonia (NH3) gas. Pristine and noble metal doped MoSe2 structures are examined computationally using density functional theory (DFT). Clusters of timers of each Pt, Au, and Ag along with their combination are...

The influences of Ag and Co additions on the thermal stability and glass-forming abilities of twenty (Cu 46- x Zr 47 Al 7 Ag x ) 100 -y Co y ( x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and y = 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5) alloys were systematically investigated by X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimeter techniques....