Every Magna Bureau story on industry: 29 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
NewsOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone…
NewsXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals.
NewsOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
NewsThe Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours.
NewsSamsung commits to High-NA EUV chipmaking tools in memory production by 2028 — an industry first. The ASML deal that redraws the AI chip map.
NewsPowerCo, VW's battery arm, pushed back its giant St. Thomas gigafactory two years while naming a general contractor to keep construction moving.
NewsWater shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.
NewsGermany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua
NewsOn Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient
NewsGlobal carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority. The world's most imp
NewsUnder Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is ne
NewsThe president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state. Fifty-seven pro
NewsFlash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsAt the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget looming, the party is spending promises it has
NewsRio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries
NewsAbout 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin s
NewsThe September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion. With the State Council promising incremental stimulus and the data landing Wednesday, Beijing is managing expecta
NewsUK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national index reads 200.3p, the RAC calls a record, and Trump is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to…
NewsIron Defender 25 moved civilians out of the Suwałki corridor for the first time — 10,500 troops, 700 vehicles, and a quiet message to Moscow about NATO's…
NewsOpenAI's next model, GPT-5.4, is expected within days — built for long-horizon agents at enterprise scale. The race is no longer about the smartest chatbot…
NewsBeijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export…
NewsTrump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally…
NewsEl Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsSeven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsHaffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learnin
NewsRussia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsOn Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina is canceling cargoes, Asia's diesel squeeze is deepening, and the world is learning
NewsShahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
