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Posted on 10/26/2021 9:29:50 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Disruptions and chaos in global supply chains continue to plague industries around the world, with the latest commodity that is seeing supply shortages being magnesium, a metal widely used in a number of industries such as aluminum alloys - all adding to increasing signs of the urgency to establish a global supply-chain coordination mechanism to find win-win solutions rather than pressing one side to fix the problem.
In Europe, industry groups, including metal producers, auto suppliers and the packaging sector, warned recently that the magnesium shortage may threaten thousands of businesses, supply chains and millions of jobs across the continent, as they are expected to run out of magnesium stocks by the end of November, Reuters reported.
In the US, Matalco Inc, the largest US producer of aluminum billet, warned about potential output downgrade due to the magnesium scarcity, while Alcoa Corp, the largest US maker of raw aluminum, also expressed concerns over the supply squeeze, Bloomberg reported.
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Magnesium is also a critical supplement which is sorely lacking in modern diets.
There is no shortage. They just won’t let us mine it in the USA.
“Global coordination”? You mean something like the FREE MARKET? What an original idea. Maybe that, and supply/demand price signals, would deliver the most efficient allocation of resources.
Nah… that might not be “equitable”. ;-)
No “global co-ordination” means “you proles need a global government because reasons”.
Magnesium is a critical military metal..........................
If only we had a one-world government we could coordinate and fix all this.
Ain't free trade grand?
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We are just beginning to see what happens when JIT inventory fails on a massive level. The entire “system” could seize up.
It will happen slowly….then you notice….and then it’s gone.
Doesn’t magnesium come from seawater?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249789/
So now that sea levels are rising due to cattle and people continuing to exist how can we have a shortage of magnesium?
“all adding to increasing signs of the urgency to establish a global supply-chain coordination mechanism to find win-win solutions rather than pressing one side to fix the problem.”
all adding to increasing signs of the urgency to establish a global government supply-chain coordination mechanism to find win-win solutions rather than pressing one side to fix the problem.
There, fixed it
Magnesium is an electrolyte.
A magnesium deficiency leads to an irregular heartbeat.
Magnesium is a counterbalance to calcium. We consume way more calcium than we do magnesium, and that imbalance impacts people in strange ways. I definitely suggest supplementing magnesium, but I’m not a doctor.
Look at all the money “we” would save if we had a global governance in place. No need for guns, bullets, troops, fighter jets, missiles or anything. </s> I am thinking that all of the bazillionaire corporations making money on war won’t allow that. So what will happen is that we will be allies of Eastasia today, but be in an existential conflict with Oceania the next.
Duralumin, the aluminum alloy that aviation was built on, contained 0.6% magnesium (+/-0.3%). More modern Alu alloys have about twice that much magnesium in them.
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