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 ...

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 ...

THIEVES WHO MAY WANT TO TARGET YOUR CAR. NEWS CENTER 5’S BRIANNA BORGHI HAS THE DETAILS FROM MIDDLETON. >> UNDERNEATH EVERY CAR IS A VERY VALUABLE DEVICE A CATALYTIC CONVERTER. THE PRECIOUS METALS IN ...

NYC saw a rise of 5,000 cases of catalytic converter thefts in just one year. Los Angeles has seen an increase in the issue too, with "thefts on the daily." Palladium, one of the precious metals found ...

USAA has news for car owners: Bad guys are coming for your catalytic converter. The San Antonio-based insurance and financial services giant said in an email to customers that more than 10,000 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Bureau of ...

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.

Three members of California family pleaded guilty to their roles in a $600 million nationwide catalytic converter theft ring that operated for three years, prosecutors say. The Vang family was part of ...