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Fray International Symposium
Seldom does a conference cover such a wide range of materials subjects as the recent symposium organised in honour of Prof Derek Fray, Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge UK. Neither are so many companies and organisations prepared
to associate their name with the event by sponsorship. 184 professional bodies, academic institutes and publications – including Steel Times International, supported the event. A report by Fathi Habashi*
The sustainability footprint of steelmaking by-products
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), originally derived to assess the carbon footprint of manufactured goods, is being applied to production processes where it can be manipulated in a variety of ways each yielding a different result to claim the lowest carbon footprint for a particular process. This paper uses the example of blast furnace slag as a replacement for cement clinker and shows, depending on the method of allocation, a saving of 0.24tCO2/t of steel produced or 0.64tCO2/t of cement produced. By J P Birat*
The skies may have brightened but the gloom lingers on
A report of the 26th Steel Success Strategies, New York
Stadco – A return to output for automotive pressings
Stadco, UK’s largest independent supplier of automotive body-in-white pressings, celebrated the opening of its fifth UK production site located in a former Japanese owned pressworks –
refurbishing the factory buildings, services and two press lines in just three months following an upturn in premium car production in UK.
An advanced computation system to solve electromagnetic problems in arc furnaces
The Finite Network Method (FNM) solves electromagnetic problems on electric arc furnaces making it possible to rapidly calculate the distribution of the electromagnetic field and current, energy and power densities in furnace components as well as the momenta and impedances of the high current.By Abbas Farschtschi*
Metec 2011 – A bright world for metals
The number of exhibitors at the metallurgical plantmaker show Metec held in Düsseldorf every four years grew by almost a third over the previous event in 2007. Overseas exhibitors accounted for almost two-thirds of the total with these being dominated by China which accounted for 25% of all overseas companies present. A report by the Editor Steel Times International.