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The article focuses on a record-breaking strike at the SRW scrap metal plant in Germany, where workers have been striking for 136 days, marking the longest postwar strike in German history, raising questions about the country's traditionally harmonious labor relations as strikes become more common.

The article discusses attempts by Detroit, Michigan, police to eliminate the scavenging of razed homes, light poles, and abandoned buildings for scrap metal, steel, and copper that can be traded for cash. The article discusses efforts in the Detroit district known as the North End by officials such as Detroit Police sergeant Rebecca L. McKay, and homeless scrapper Robert Jones, Jr. It also discusses legislation enacted by the Michigan State Legislature forbidding scrap yards from paying cash for stolen metals.

The article reports on the recorded voice of María del Mar Terrón Martínez when she was 10 years old for his metal collector father Marco Antonio Terrón Aguilar to solicit scrap metals, which became a signature cry in Mexico City, Mexico in solicitation of scrap metal.

The article reviews the exhibitions "Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett" and "Once Something Has Lived It Can Never Really Die" at the American Folk Art Museum in New York through September 28, 2016.

The article reports on the removal of bronze and brass plaques from the graves of military veterans from cemeteries throughout New York and Pennsylvania. The plaques are being pried off of the tomb stones and then taken and sold as scrap metal. The author suggests that this is a result of a doubling in the price of bronze and brass metals.

This article reports on an explosion in Irvington, New Jersey that totally destroyed two structures and killed one person. The explosion was reportedly set off by vagrants who were trying to steal the pipes for scrap metal and accidentally severed a gas line. Five men were in the building at the time, buried by rubble. The force of the explosion damaged 36 other homes in the area.

The article focuses on artist and furniture designer Piet Hein Eek of Geldrop, the Netherlands. He runs his company on contrarian principles; instead of paying high amounts of money for materials, he uses recycled free materials and invests in his employees. His designs blend aspects of classic style with whimsy while reusing scrap metal and wood.

Discusses the attempt of Asian scavengers to supply China with scrap metals to meet the country's demand for steel. Impact of China's industrial rise; China's iron ore production; Long-term multibillion-dollar supply contracts signed by China with Australian and Brazilian mining companies; Increase in China's scrap imports; Biggest recycling program that cleans Asian landscapes with Soviet-era junks.

Reports on the plan for stricter regulation of the scrap industry in China. Significant provisions of the new regulation; Rate of Chinese imports of steel scrap; Impact of the scrap industry to the environment.

The article offers information on the New York Old Iron salvage yard of Roy Vaccaro along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, and include insights from shoppers including Vincent Galantino, Justin Fredrickson, and Jim Ogrin.

The article reports on the devastation of the 1865 Germania Building among the skyscrapers in the financial district of New York City. The four-storey building was built for the Germania Fire Insurance Co., but was succeeded by merchants, brokers and lawyers. The building was designated a landmark in 1989 but escaped the attentions of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

WHEN the kidnappers shackled his feet and cuffed his hands, Edo de Ronde managed to restrain his fears. The Dutch marketing consultant, who was abducted last year in South Africa, kept calm in captivity, he recalled, until a gun was put to his head. Mr. de Ronde then asked himself, ''What will they say at my funeral?'' His ugly odyssey began after a colleague at a Chinese trading company he works with answered a fake ad for scrap metal and agreed to buy 42 million rand ($5.3 million) worth of phantom steel railroad tracks. The trading company asked Mr. de Ronde, in the Netherlands, to meet with the sellers in Johannesburg. Before his ill-fated trip, Mr. de Ronde asked to review the sellers' financial statements as well as a report by an independent verification service. The scam artists provided the requested documents, which turned out to be ''very, very professional'' forgeries, Mr. de Ronde said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The huge container ships and tankers that cross the world's oceans are crucial to the functioning of the global consumer economy, and yet they are also curiously marginal to our perception of the world. Many of us take for granted the goods they transport, and perhaps we think about how those goods reached us only when we fly over a major port city and catch sight of maritime giants docked under the cranes in the harbor. Where do those ships go when they have outlasted their usefulness? That strange, fascinating question is at the heart of ''Iron Crows,'' a startlingly beautiful documentary by Bong-Nam Park that is also devastatingly sad. Mr. Park, a South Korean filmmaker armed with a high-definition digital camera, a knack for striking visual compositions and a deep reservoir of human sympathy, spent months with a group of shipbreakers in Chittagong, a city in Bangladesh where many of the world's largest vessels are taken apart, their fixtures sold off and their bodies cut into scrap metal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAGHDAD -- At the bottom of the economy here, life revolves around that humblest of commodities, garbage. On a recent morning, Hamad Tarish dropped down a bag of cans and scrap metal, showing off blackened hands that rarely touched running water. For Mr. Tarish, 22, garbage is his capital. Every night around 3 a.m. he leaves his home to scavenge in a neighborhood to the south before the sanitation trucks come, hustling to avoid the police and to compete with other collectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frankie Fidilio was collecting scrap metal for money in Brooklyn when the gleam of iron behind a school caught his eye. There were teetering stacks of old televisions, obsolete video transfer machines and clunky cassette recorders. Even a 250-pound stationary studio camera like something out of a museum. A scrapper by trade, as well as a star in the reality show ''Scrappers,'' Mr. Fidilio called the custodian, who told him that the equipment was being junked and he was free to take it. ''I was like, holy cow, this seems like a whole department,'' Mr. Fidilio recalled telling him. ''And he goes: 'Yeah it is. They're gone.' '' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HERE'S Frankie Fidilio rolling down Avenue U in Brooklyn on the second-hottest day of the year in his blue 1986 GMC Suburban. The van has no air-conditioning, but that's the least of its problems. So much rust dust has accumulated in the back that this looks like the only vehicle in creation with a dirt floor. Still, that's better than the front, where there is no floor, just the hot asphalt of Avenue U flying by beneath the soles of his sneakers. Frankie's Newports and a copy of Playboy rest on the dashboard. The exterior is so rusty that a tetanus shot should be required just to look at it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PIERCE, Colo. -- Scrap metal thieves are not known for sophistication. From drug addicts in the 1970s ripping copper plumbing from walls to scrap-yard regulars of more recent years who proffer whatever fell off a truck, stealing hunks of coil or reinforcing bar has mostly been about having a strong back and a willingness to get dirty, law enforcement experts say. The thieves who struck the Tucker dairy farm this year were different. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEW DELHI -- To walk through the squalor of Mayapuri, a grimy industrial area of hundreds of tiny scrap-metal shops, is to bear witness to the industrial detritus of the world: tons of rusted iron pipes, twisted steel poles, copper and other discarded metals from Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States, as well as from India. And then there is what came into the small shop owned by Deepak Jain: a piece, or pieces, of metal blamed for an alarming radiation scare this month that hospitalized seven people and caused the police to temporarily cordon off an area barely 10 miles from India's Parliament. Some experts declared it one of the most troubling cases of radiation exposure in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The British police believe that they have solved the case of a Henry Moore sculpture that has been missing for four years, and now suspect that it was sold for scrap, The Guardian reported. In 2005 the two-ton bronze sculpture, ''Reclining Figure,'' was stolen from Moore's estate in Hertfordshire, 30 miles north of London, and a flatbed truck and crane believed to have been used in the crime were quickly recovered. After more than three years of investigation, Jon Humphries, the detective chief inspector of the Hertfordshire police, said that evidence suggested that the work was ''cut up'' on the night of the crime, ''then taken to a location where it was irreparably damaged before it was shipped abroad.'' He added, ''In my mind we've managed to kill off the mystery as much as is possible.'' The sculpture, valued at about $4.6 million, would have yielded about $2,300 in scrap metal, Detective Humphries said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON his last day of work at the sprawling riverfront foundry here, Tom Darmo looked up from the stacks of pipes he was counting and decided that, after 22 years, the time had come for him to visit the one spot where he had never set foot before: the peak of the cupola, the five-story furnace where scrap metal was melted and transformed into something new. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HERE at TNT Scrap Metal, a junkyard that sits on a desolate industrial stretch along the Brooklyn-Queens border in East Williamsburg, everything has a price. Even a statue of Jesus Christ goes for about 30 cents a pound. Sabas Blanco, who works at the junkyard weighing scrap, saved the dented statue of Jesus, which was destined to be crushed and sent to a distant land to be recycled and refitted as some new appliance or window frame. He rescued it from a pile of twisted metal and aluminum that had been hauled in months earlier to be compressed and redeemed for cash. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Underwater Trains Q.Given the price of scrap metal, why is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority placing its obsolete cars in artificial reefs instead of scrapping them? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It is easy to miss the mechanical birds in the window, with flapping wings of scrap metal and wood and tail feathers of flattened spoons. The two-foot-long threaded bolt also blends in with its surroundings, but the 24-foot-long BMX bicycle hanging from the ceiling is a good hint that there is more to this hardware store than hammers and drills. At Crest Hardware, a quasi institution on Metropolitan Avenue near Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than 100 works of art, many of them hardware-themed, are on display alongside the workaday items like nails, nuts and bolts. They are part of the Crest Hardware Art Show, which is in its seventh year. It began June 7 and runs through the end of July. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the decline in the cost of goods of factories in Great Britain by 0.4 percent in December 2004, the biggest monthly drop since November 2004, led lower by prices for scrap metal, computers and petroleum products.

Reports that new evidence suggests much of what is being billed as Iraqi scrap metal is actually looted material and is crossing the border into Jordan and other neighboring countries. Effect of looting on United States rebuilding efforts; Possibility that sensitive military equipment may be looted; Continuous stream of flatbed trucks from Iraq to Jordan; Suspect items found in Jordan scrapyards; Widespread looting as a reflection of the general lawlessness in Iraq.

Reports on the filing of charges against Paterson, New Jersey-based metal trade business Zager Brothers Scrap Metal for allegedly buying large sections of guardrails that had been disappearing from state highways. Investigation on the disappearance of aluminum protective rails that run along heavily traveled sections of state highways.

Reports on the issue of missing aluminum guardrails along Interstate-80 and 78 and State Routes 46 and 19. Discovery of the removal of the rails through the sawing of bolts; Claim by experts of the theft of the materials for shipment to China as scrap metal; Recognition of the double rates for aluminum and steel scrap materials in the foreign market; Concern over the potential accidents and deaths from the loss of the safety apparatus. Efforts of the government to replace the stolen items and track down the culprits.

Discusses plans by China to curb pollution from the scrap metal industry. Increase in imports of steel scrap as the steel industry expands; How the scrap industry poses a continuing environmental problem; Changes, including registration and government approval for importing scrap metal; View that tighter supervision should result in a cleaner environment; Skepticism of some over the new government rules.