Pilfering the filters; Theft of catalytic converters on the rise.
Byline: Steven H. Foskett Jr. Every few years, or even every few months, it seems thieves find something different to steal from unsuspecting drivers and car dealers - portable satellite navigation systems, car stereos, rims and even certain types of headlights are popular targets. It's...

OM GROUP TO ACQUIRE DMC2.
PR Newswire, London, April 23. This press release is transmitted on behalf of OM Group Inc. Cleveland, Ohio - OM Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire all of the operations of dmc2 degussa Metals Catalysts Cerdec (dmc2), a unit...

OM Group to Acquire dmc2.
CLEVELAND, April 23 /PRNewswire Interactive News Release/ -- OM Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire all of the operations of dmc2 degussa Metals Catalysts Cerdec (dmc2), a unit of Degussa AG, for EUR1,200 million in cash. dmc2, based in Hanau, Germany,...

Catalytic thievery.
Byline: Jack Moran The Register-Guard Nate McClain didn't know what to think when he arrived at his Eugene pet shop one afternoon last month and saw a man lying on the ground underneath a van McClain keeps parked there. It didn't cross his mind that...

Markets get a silver lining.
Byline: Abhishek Shanker and Mansi Bhatt AHMEDABAD: Every cloud has a silver lining. High gold prices in recent months have led to a slump in buying and trading in gold and gold jewellery. This has brought the other precious metal, silver, into the limelight. The...

Toward a Multilateral Competition Policy Regime?
The multilateral economic system contains a major shortcoming. Although governments have committed themselves to a rule-based multilateral trade policy regime in the World Trade Organization (WTO), private companies that operate in the global marketplace face no such multilateral disciplines. Certainly, most industrialized nations have created their own set of...

Boom times to continue.
Byline: Ranjit Shinde The year '06 was as action-packed as it can be for the commodity markets across the world. Though a lot of commodities witnessed volatility in prices, metals and bullion stole the show in terms of gains within a year. In the metals...

Stillwater Mining Reports Third Quarter Profit.
BILLINGS, Mont., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STILLWATER MINING COMPANY today reported third-quarter 2006 net earnings of $6.9 million, or $0.07 per fully diluted share, on revenues of $180.8 million, benefiting from continuing growth in the Company's precious metal recycling business, strong realized prices on platinum-group metal (PGM) sales and...

Into the mouth of hell: a journey into the crater of an active volcano.
Ken Sims peers over the rim of Masaya Volcano and looks 2,000 feet (600 meters) down into the smoking crater lined with rows of jagged rocks that jut up like monstrous teeth. A 16th-century Spanish friar once called it "the mouth of hell." Sweat drips from Sims'...

All the RAJ.
FOR THOSE ATTENDING THE VICENZAORO1 FAIR (January 16-23), the message was as bright as the Tuscan sun: Italy meets India. The exotic Asian nation, edged by the waters of the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and Arabian Sea, is having a huge impact on the newest jewelry designs from...