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Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

High-temperature alloys, created primarily using cobalt, are essential for advanced technologies like semiconductor fabrication, electric vehicle batteries, and aerospace products. Cobalt is a crucial element in the high-tech industry due to its unique properties and versatile applications.

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November Global PMI Reporting Reflects Some Stabilization

Supply Chain Matters

Growth was reportedly fueled from demands in medicine, high tech, auto, railway, shipping and aerospace equipment markets. This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand , and Vietnam. While the production sub-index registered 50.7, in November from 50.6

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Your Italian company is negotiating the supply of aerospace products to a government in Asia. Given that in Indonesia, for example, business bribery is commonplace (despite the efforts of a governmental anti-corruption agency), one must wonder if Smith & Wesson’s salespeople were the corrupters or the corrupted.

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Supply Chain Disruptions Are New Opportunities – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Several European, American, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese & Indian business, in many industry sectors, like automotive, aerospace, electronics, pharmal and medical, have experienced supply chain earthquakes. Many are now actively pursuing opportunities to diversify sourcing and reduce the China risk factor.

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Thailand Courts Foreign Investment, While Leadership Questions Remain

Supply Chain Brain

GDP growth lags that of Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Kobsak Pootrakool, who holds the title of minister attached to the prime minister’s office, told the investment seminar that Thailand’s international competitiveness has been on the decline in recent years.

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Which Industries Have Been Impacted by UFLPA?

Resilinc

Automotive, aerospace, and healthcare industries—all of these industries use parts that contain polysilicon.” Shipments from China and Vietnam account for most of the shipments stopped by CBP, followed by Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. UFLPA may be having an impact on cotton in the US.

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Global Trade and Decoupling from China

Enterra Insights

Apart from China, it includes Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and 10 Southeast Asian nations, from Indonesia and Vietnam to Thailand and Singapore. … The population of the countries now part of the deal equals roughly a third of humanity.”[4]. ”[4]. The great decoupling.

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