Business

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Physical supply chains, commodity forward curves, industrial balance sheets, and freight economics.

How specialty roasters are hedging multi-year frost volatility at origin

After two erratic flowering cycles in Minas Gerais and Tolima, independent roasteries are abandoning spot C-market benchmarks for three-year floor-and-collar farm contracts.

Meera Subramanian · Nov 10, 2026 · 4 min read

Synchronous steel flywheels find a second career stabilizing industrial microgrids

Paired with lithium-iron-phosphate banks, vacuum-housed rotors absorb sub-second arc-furnace load spikes without degrading electrochemical battery cells.

Kenji Takahashi · Oct 17, 2026 · 4 min read

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