Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME), Canada’s largest trade and industry association, has launched Canada Makes, a national network of excellence dedicated to the adoption and development of additive manufacturing in Canada.
Read more at: http://www.metal-powder.net/view/40306/launch-of-canadian-3d-printing-network/
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 22 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Energy said a cement plant in Texas is now converting carbon dioxide into useful commercial products using first-of-its-kind technology.
The department and Skyonic Corp. opened the demonstration project at the San Antonio plant. Dubbed the SkyMine project, it’s able to capture as much as 75,000 tons of CO2 emitted from the cement plant and turn it into products like sodium carbonate, used as water softener, and sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda.
Read more at: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2014/10/22/Texas-plant-converts-CO2-to-baking-soda/6111413969411/
Russia’s investment and industrial group Vi Holding may pour around US$1.5 billion into building mineral processing facilities in Indonesia, a Russian minister says.
The projects would comprise a $1 billion alumina refinery and a $500 million ferronickel smelter, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said Tuesday.
Read more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/10/22/russian-firm-set-build-15b-mineral-facilities.html
High-tech powerhouse Siemens has just announced the Siemens 3D Challenge, a contest to inspire sustainability-conscious technical creativity and innovation in 3D printing and design in Australia and New Zealand with the results aimed at benefiting the larger, global community. Tackling the contemporary challenges of climate change, shifting demographics, and increasing urbanization and seizing opportunities in the age of digital transformation is the overarching goal of Siemens, which welcomes fresh new ideas from the best and the brightest in additive manufacturing.
Read more at: http://3dprint.com/20007/siemens-3d-challenge/
With the mining of nickel in Burundi underway, East Africa shows the beginnings of a strong iron and steel industry.
We have most of the elements to develop a viable industrial base.
However, I wonder whether we will not find ourselves in a fix. I am thinking of the Nigeria situation of being a top oil exporter and yet also importing more expensive refined fuel products.
According to Burundi Second Vice President, Dr Gervais Rufykiri (left) Burundi is among the 10 countries in the world that has important nickel deposits.
Read more at: http://www.busiweek.com/index1.php?Ctp=2&pI=2026&pLv=3&srI=79&spI=454&cI=10
As material science advances, one of the more exciting developments over the last several years has been that of the utilization of graphene, a super-material which is extremely lightweight, strong, and electrically conductive. We have only scratched the surface of what could be tens of thousands of potential applications for the carbon-based material.
Additive manufacturing is also furthering the development of materials with interesting new properties. Where graphene and 3D printing meet the opportunities and possibilities are staggering.
Read more at: http://3dprint.com/19554/daniel-stolyarov-ceo-graphene/
Jakarta – Nickel miner Vale Indonesia will divest a further 20% stake of the company to Indonesian parties within five years, the firm’s chief executive said on Friday, after signing an amended mining contract with the government of Indonesia.
Vale has already divested a 20% stake via its public listing on the Indonesian Stock Exchange.
Read more at: http://www.miningweekly.com/article/vale-to-divest-20-of-indonesian-unit-within-five-years–ceo-2014-10-17
Global nickel usage has increased this year thanks to improved economic factors in the first half of the year, and is expected to rise again next year, according to the International Nickel Study Group (INSG).
But nickel production has tailed off from 2013, and financial, economic and political uncertainty “could alter” the market balance in the future, the INSG said. Nickel consumption has grown in North America and China this year, while conditions have improved in Europe and Japan, the INSG said in a release detailing its semi annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, earlier this month.
Every day, hundreds of end-use metal parts are being produced around the globe by means of additive manufacturing technologies. Materials which are lighter, cheaper, and more capable of standing up to a host of environmental changes such as air temperature and pressure are being created using new additive technologies such as Electron Beam Melting (EBM). The future is certainly bright when it comes to the various applications within the medical, aerospace, and energy production fields, where these technologies are enabling new innovative products and designs. In fact, it may have just gotten a bit brighter thanks to a discovery made by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) using an Arcam EBM system.
Read more at: http://3dprint.com/19477/ebm-printing-3d-ornl/
Burundi’s mining industry launched the first activities for nickel at the Musongati site, southwest of the country, estimated to contain 150 million tons of the metal.
Read more at: http://www.ambriefonline.com/2014/10/burundi-launches-first-mining-activities-nickel-musongati-site/
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