Born and raised in Madisonville, Kentucky, Cliff Nance grew up in the tungsten trade — learning the business from the plant floor up to the CEO’s chair. As a second-generation “scrapie” with a global perspective, Cliff brings curiosity, candor, and decades of experience in tungsten reclamation and recycling to every conversation.
On Cliff’s Notes, Cliff sits down with innovators, industry leaders, and thinkers from around the world to talk about the forces shaping manufacturing, metals, and modern business. From technology and sustainability to leadership and legacy, every episode explores what it means to build something that lasts.
Whether it’s a deep dive into the recycling industry or a story about grit, family, and the future — Cliff’s Notes is where real conversations happen with the people moving the world forward.
Theme song written and performed by Adam Howell.
Tungco CEO Cliff Nance sits down with Dr. Hady Seyeda, CEO of HC Starck — one of the world's leading tungsten processors — recorded live at the ITIA conference in Berlin.
Dr. Hady Seyeda has a PhD in solid state chemistry, joined HC Starck in R&D in 1998, and has worked his way to the top of one of the most technically demanding businesses in the tungsten supply chain. In this episode they cover HC Starck's 50 million euro recycling expansion in Goslar, why China's new dual-use classification has cut tungsten export volumes by more than 50%, the US tungsten scrap export ban and what it signals to the rest of the world, a frank reality check on Western mining timelines, and two emerging tungsten demand stories most people haven't connected yet: fusion reactors and AI semiconductor chips.
Plus a BMW M5 cold open and a solid state chemistry lesson nobody asked for but everyone needed. Tags
Hosted by Cliff Nance of Tungco — where hard work meets honest talk about leadership, innovation, and what it takes to build something that lasts.
14 Oct 2026
Episode 403: Jerilyn Bristow of MI2 Kentucky
Recorded live at Churchill Downs during Scrap Expo in Louisville, Cliff sits down with Jerilyn Bristow, executive director of MI2 — the Metals Industry Innovation Initiative of Kentucky.
Here's a number that should stop you in your tracks: Kentucky's metals industry is three times the size of its bourbon industry. Three times. And almost nobody outside the industry knows it. Jerilyn breaks down what MI2 is doing to change that, from the Million Cans Project tackling Kentucky's 15% aluminum recycling rate to the InnoSearch contest connecting industry problems with real solutions.
Plus: Project 74, tungsten in every chip you own, and what a 15% boost to the domestic defense industrial base actually means. Bourbon and cigars to close, naturally.
Hosted by Cliff Nance of Tungco — where hard work meets honest talk about leadership, innovation, and what it takes to build something that lasts.
7 Oct 2026
Episode 402: Evan Nance of Tungco
Tungco CEO Cliff Nance turns the mic on his son Evan Nance, recorded live at the ITIA conference in Berlin — Evan's first.
Fresh out of Belmont University with a finance degree, he’s moved out fo the house, owns his own place with two roommates paying rent, and now working full time at Tungco.
In this episode they cover what it actually feels like to go from the classroom to the real world, why Mike Rowe's 'work smarter not harder' takedown at a defense conference landed so hard, and — most importantly — how the zinc reclaim process at Project 74 actually works, explained by the guy running it day to day. A six-hour runway delay, a motorcycle story, and a closing that'll remind you to call your kid.
Hosted by Cliff Nance of Tungco — where hard work meets honest talk about leadership, innovation, and what it takes to build something that lasts.
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