An Viet Long Co. Ltd. announced the debut of the 3D scanner in the METALEX Machinery and Technology Exhibition, held at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City during October 8-10.

It was 20 years ago that the normalisation of diplomatic relations between the US and Vietnam took place. Since then, many US companies and partners have not only invested in and contributed to Vietnam’s economic development, but have also been helping the community with meaningful corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. As one of the major US companies that formed its business in Vietnam soon after the establishment of diplomatic ties, Mead Johnson Nutrition has been pursuing a long-standing metabolics programme. Gift Samabhandhu, general manager of Mead Johnson Nutrition Vietnam shared about this pioneering programme for infants and children in the country.

A fevered hunt for more wreckage from missing flight MH370 on La Reunion island has turned up no new clues as authorities say metallic debris found by locals did not come from an airplane.

The 13th International precision engineering, machine tools and metalworking exhibition (MTA Vietnam 2015) opened yesterday in HCM City.

The TAMADA Viet Nam Company Ltd. officially inaugurated a metal container production plant on April 24 in the Dinh Vu Industrial Zone in the northern Hai Phong Port City.

Domestic gold demand is expected to surge sharply today as Vietnamese prefer buying the metal to mark the God of Wealth Day–the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.

A crew from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic - the pro-Moscow separatists who hold the territory - supervised by Dutch experts used metal saws to cut up the wreckage before it was lifted on to trucks at the remote crash site.

Heavy metals in the soil, including lead and zinc, threaten the land environment around industrial zones in Dong Nai province.

While local experts are arguing over whether Vietnam should ban or continue allowing the import of scrap metal in the draft amendments to the Law on Environmental Protection expected to be adopted next month, Tomisaka Ryuji, a Japan International Co-operation Agency expert working at Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, provides some words of wisdom.

Gold retail trading surged sharply as many seekers of good fortune queued in long lines outside local shops to buy the precious metal on the God of Wealth Day [Feb. 9, the tenth day of the Lunar New Year].

Vietnam’s HoaSen Group, named the best managed company in Asia in the metals and mining sector for 2014 by Euromoney magazine, will inaugurate a new iron sheet production line on February 15.

Leading international finance publication Euromoney has picked Vietnam’s Hoa Sen Group as the best managed company in Asia in the metals and mining sector for 2014.

Forged through a partnership between Japan’s Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Australia’s BlueScope Steel Limited, and with 20 years of operations in the Vietnamese market, NS BlueScope Vietnam has developed a reputation as a global steel industry brand.

As industries with big demands for steel such as shipbuilding, auto, mechanical engineering and construction will not prosper in 2014 as predicted, next year’s total steel sales will be only 12.2-12.5 million tons, a year-on-year rise of 3-5% only, said Pham Chi Cuong, chairman of the Vietnam Foundry & Metallurgy- Science and Technology Association.

US heavy metal band Metallica can now say it has performed on every continent after giving a rare concert in Antarctica to about 100 spectators wearing headphones.