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Sales for this segment rose to $20 million, and the company aims to scale production to reach 10,000 metric tons annually by 2028.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Five years ago, the energy consultancy BloombergNEF forecast demand for cobalt to hit 300,000 metric tons a year by 2030, according to Kwasi Ampofo, the consultancy’s head of metals and mining.
—Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
That rise, revealed in the latest Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) report, brings the sector’s total footprint to 944 million metric tons of CO₂e—nearly 2 percent of all global emissions—and further derails the industry from its 2030 climate goals.
—Kurt Kipka, Sourcing Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
Last year, Australia shipped almost 400,000 metric tons of beef worth $2.9 billion to the United States, with just 269 tons of U.S. product moving the other way.
—Reuters, NBC news, 26 July 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Five years ago, the energy consultancy BloombergNEF forecast demand for cobalt to hit 300,000 metric tons a year by 2030, according to Kwasi Ampofo, the consultancy’s head of metals and mining.
—Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
That rise, revealed in the latest Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) report, brings the sector’s total footprint to 944 million metric tons of CO₂e—nearly 2 percent of all global emissions—and further derails the industry from its 2030 climate goals.
—Kurt Kipka, Sourcing Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
Last year, Australia shipped almost 400,000 metric tons of beef worth $2.9 billion to the United States, with just 269 tons of U.S. product moving the other way.
—Reuters, NBC news, 26 July 2025
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“Metric ton.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metric%20ton. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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