LASYS 2014 to see demo of high-power welding with online seam tracking; BMW-Mini already a fan. Laser positioning and deflection technology developer Scanlab and subsidiary Blackbird Robotics will be presenting their new robot-assisted 3D ...
Tags: Scan System, Laser-Robots
Spot treatment charges for imported zinc concentrates paid to Chinese smelters are in the range of $140-155/mt in June, up around 5% from $135-145/mt in May, Chinese zinc industry sources said Tuesday. The increase for the second month ...
Tags: Zinc Smelter, Zinc Industry
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has published an informational guide about ENVIRON MCL coatings, an environmentally-friendly, water-based coating for application on metallic coating lines over GALVALUME coated sheet ...
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Finland-based nickel and zinc miner Talvivaara Mining Company Plc has announced its financial results for the first quarter this year, registering a net loss of €17.1 million, narrowing down from €23.9 million in the same quarter ...
Researchers in Taiwan have produced zinc oxide/gallium nitride (ZnO/GaN) nano-rod light-emitting diodes [Ya-Ju Lee et al, APL Mater. vol2, p056101, 2014]. The researchers avoided complicated polymer processing by using a shadowing effect to ...
Tags: LED Fabrication, Zinc Oxide
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed an enforceable agreement with Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke) to perform a comprehensive assessment, determine the location of coal ash deposits and to remove deposits along the Dan ...
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Canadian miner Pan American Silver believes Argentina this year will lift its ban on open-pit mining that forced the company to suspend operations at its Navidad gold project, CEO Geoff Burns said Wednesday. The Vancouver-based company, ...
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Going long on lead and short on copper continues to be a solid investment strategy in 2014, particularly as lead tilts toward a supply deficit and copper toward surplus, investment bank BNP Paribas said Thursday. Despite lead's ...
The proposed Minnesota ban on lead wheel weights for all vehicles within the state, including passenger and commercial vehicles, has passed a final vote in both the state house and state senate and is awaiting the signature of Gov. Mark ...
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LED chips are a core component in the LED industry. There are currently many domestic and international LED chip manufacturers in China, but there currently are no categorization standards, according to a report by Chinese-language ...
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Since the end of 2013, GEOMET 321 has been used by SIEMENS WIND POWER A/S on fasteners of wind turbine blades. For this application, SIEMENS WIND POWER A/S requires that the coating must be able to exist in a C5-H environment (according to ...
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Peruvian poly-metallic miner Milpo increased production of zinc, lead, copper and silver in the first quarter after bringing online expansions at two of its mines in Peru, the miner said Monday. A unit of Brazil's Votorantim Metais, Milpo ...
Tags: Zinc Output, Silver Output
Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has claimed the highest optical 3dB modulation bandwidth of ~463MHz at 50mA for a 500nm-wavelength blue-green indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
Tags: blue-green LEDs, taiwan, LED, LED light, Electrical, Electronics
China's Huludao Zinc produced 274,000 mt of nonferrous metals in 2013, down a marginal 1.4% from 278,000 mt produced in 2012, the company said Friday. Its chemical products output was 456,000 mt in 2013, up 0.7% year on year. The ...
Tags: Nonferrous, Zinc, Metal
Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that NS BlueScope Thailand, part of NS BlueScope Coated Products, a joint venture between NSSMC and Australia-based BlueScope Steel Limited, has decided to ...