Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...
Platinum has been considered a precious metal for a couple thousand years now, with folks in both hemispheres using it to show off their conspicuous consumption since about 700 BCE. This is partly ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As catalytic converter theft continues to rise, many are wondering why? Within minutes, thieves are able to cut them off from vehicles. It is because of a type of three types ...
The precious metals, such as platinum, palladium and rhodium, in catalytic converters make the vehicle devices attractive to thieves, but researchers are working to reduce the amount of precious ...
WATERTOWN WITH HOW IT WORKS. RHONDELLA: THE OLDER MODEL PREVIOUS, THE TACOMA, AND IT TUNDRAS, THEY ARE THE ONES MOST TARGETED BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE MOST PRECIOUS METAL. IT’S CUT HERE AND HERE BY TEAMS ...
Thefts of catalytic converters from cars and trucks continue to be a problem in Texas and across the nation. The catalytic converter, which in some cases is as big as a loaf of bread, has been ...
Canada-based company opens facility in Tennessee to recover platinum group metals from diesel catalytic converters. Canada-based Regenx has allied with Tennessee-based Davis Recycling to process ...
Introduced in 1974 by General Motors, catalytic converters were a byproduct of the 1970 Clean Air Act, which aimed at improving air quality in the U.S. by curbing smog emissions that were choking U.S.