Recycling: Europe’s Fastest Path to Secure Raw-Material Supply
Europe faces a timing dilemma. Demand for strategic raw materials is accelerating faster than new mining and processing infrastructure can come online. Mines can take...
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Europe’s Circular Economy Depends on Heavy-Industry Recycling: The Strategic Imperative
Europe talks confidently about circular economy ambitions, emphasizing material loops, waste reduction, higher recovery rates, and resource efficiency. The narrative is compelling, and conceptually correct:...
Asian Mining Capital Aligns with European Standards: How Japan, Korea, and China Reposition for EU Market Access
Europe’s dependency on global minerals is not passive—it is actively managed. The interaction with Asian mining and processing capital highlights this dynamic. Japan, South Korea,...
The Balkans as Europe’s Base-Metals Execution Zone: Energy, Labour, and Capital Aligned
Europe’s raw-material dependency is often framed in continental terms: Africa supplies, Asia processes, Europe consumes. While broadly accurate, this view misses a critical layer. Between...
Why Base Metals Outperform Battery Metals in European Institutional Portfolios
Over the past decade, battery metals like lithium, nickel, and cobalt have dominated the discourse around Europe’s energy transition. These metals are often framed as...
CBAM and the New Metals Map: Why Europe Backs Processing Power Over Mining Scale in Aluminium, Steel, and Zinc
Within Europe’s industrial ecosystem, aluminium, steel, and zinc occupy a contradictory position. They are everywhere—embedded in buildings, vehicles, machinery, grids, and defence systems—yet they rarely...
Engineering Hydrogen Metallurgy in South-East Europe: Why Serbia Leads the Region
Hydrogen metallurgy represents the frontier of Europe’s industrial transition, where climate ambition meets metallurgical reality. Producing steel and other metals using hydrogen instead of carbon-based...
Green Steel in South-East Europe: Who Integrates and Who Risks Being Left Behind
Steel sits at the heart of Europe’s decarbonisation challenge. No other material combines such economic importance with such carbon intensity. Transitioning to green steel is...
Engineering Before Extraction: Why South-East Europe Matters More in Processing Than in Mining
For decades, Europe’s industrial strategy rested on a straightforward belief: control the resource and you control the value. Mining policy, raw-materials diplomacy, and geopolitical positioning...
Europe’s Energy-Intensive Industries Sound Alarm Over Growing Dependence on Imported Metals
Europe’s energy-intensive industries—spanning steel, chemicals, cement, paper, aluminium, and advanced fabrication—have issued a coordinated warning over growing strategic vulnerabilities linked to imported metals and intermediate...
