On April 22, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Apr. 14-20) the overall average finished steel price in China declined by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
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On April 15, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Apr. 7-13) the overall average finished steel price in China rose by 0.6 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
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China's domestic spot prices for copper, aluminum, lead and zinc fell between 1.2% and 11.9% year on year over January-February, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Wednesday. Copper posted the biggest drop, falling ...
Russian AK5M2 secondary aluminum feedstock prices remained under downward pressure for a second week from weak export demand, Japanese buyers said Tuesday. Several Russian producers Tuesday offered $1,940/mt CIF Japan for AK5M2 feedstock ...
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The price of zinc could get up to $4,500/mt by the end of the decade as supply is outstripped by increasing demand, CRU analyst Helen O'Cleary said Monday. The analyst -- speaking at the Metal Events 6th International Zinc conference in ...
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Refined global zinc usage is to increase 4.5% this year to 13.58 million mt, the International Lead & Zinc Study Group said Thursday. "It is anticipated that, after having risen by 4.9% in 2013, world usage of refined zinc metal will ...
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Greenkote PLC, provider of ecofriendly anti-corrosion metal coatings, confirmed that it has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification. ISO 9000 is a family of standards that define, establish and maintain an effective quality assurance ...
Tags: Zinc-Based Coatings, Construction, Decoration, Coatings
NEI Corporation recently introduced NANOMYTE TC‐5001, a nanotechnology-enabled, single component, clear coating that significantly improves the corrosion resistance of zinc‐plated and hot‐dip galvanized (HDG) steel. It is ...
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China's domestic spot prices for copper, aluminum and lead fell around 7% year on year in 2013 on weak demand, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Thursday. Lead posted the largest drop, falling 7.4% year on year to ...
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The main types of the protective coatings are and will remain in the long term zinc and zinc-based alloys having anode protection, as well as a variety of paints and coatings, Russia's Metal Supply and Sales magazine has reported. In ...
The Razer Blade T14 14-inch gaming laptop includes a high-resolution IGZO/IPS touchscreen display. Related razer Razer Expands Beyond Gaming Headphones razer Razer Takes Pre-Orders On 'Blade' Laptop Carlsbad, Calif. – Razer ...
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Ubiquitous but frustrating, lithium-ion batteries fade because the materials lose their structure in response to charging and discharging. This structural change is closely related to the formation of electron-rich regions within the ...
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PPG Industries has formed an agreement between the commercial coatings group of its automotive refinish business and Van Nay, LLC, to expand the line of ECK corrosion-prevention products that PPG distributes. PPG now offers the full line of ...
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(Phys.org) —Like a spring connecting two swings, light can act as photon glue that binds together the quantum mechanical properties of two vastly different materials. The effect could harness the most useful characteristics from ...
When a piece of gift-wrapping tape sticks to itself, it's frustrating, but when small parts in a microgear or micromotor stick together, an electronic device may not work well, if at all. Researchers now report in the journal ACS Applied ...
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