Chapter II Across the other side of the Atlantic, in the Geneva headquarters of Metal-Exx, Max Eisenstadt was metaphorically scratching...

Chapter I Jason Serck stared at the face looking back at him from the bathroom mirror. There was no running away from it; he was getting...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Where can I find a UK Steinweg? As it now...

Back in July 2012, in the pages of ‘Metal Bulletin’, I wrote an article entitled ‘Libor Lies’; it was written as the scandal of Libor...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The LME Dinner will be with us again soon, and...

By and large, modern political thought doesn’t speak well of the Victorians; not entirely fairly, I feel. I’m not going to stick my head...

Before the outbreak of World War One, the UK was largely dependent for zinc on smelters in Germany and, to a lesser degree, the Low...

It’s still holiday time for me, so I’ve got no more than a couple of random thoughts this week. First, in this world where sadly...

When cars with internal combustion engines began to appear around the turn of the twentieth century, one of the obvious issues for the...

Just a short article this week, as I’m on holiday, enjoying driving my German petrol/electric hybrid car down almost – by UK standards –...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The most memorable stand at Farnborough this...

Oh dear! Poor old mother country. Over the years, we’ve got used to Australia handing out Ashes whitewashes, the Wallabies putting us out...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. It would appear that wherever I go the subject...

One of the simple bits of physics that even I – a definite non-physicist – can understand about electricity versus petrol as a means of...

I’ve been catching up recently with some books that I should probably have read already. One of those is “Red Notice”, by Bill Browder,...

This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The situation in aluminium following President...

Sanctions and tariff barriers are amongst the hot topics of the moment. It’s worth re-iterating the difference between them, because...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I don’t think it’s a secret that I enjoy the...

I wonder if every generation – when it gets to a certain age – begins to feel that the world is in a terrible state? I know my father was...

The granting of credit, or the acquisition of security, can be a bit of a minefield in a business where transactions take place which may...