Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Measured by volume, scrap iron and steel remain the kings of the mountain for metals recyclers. But measured by profits, there are times when the nonferrous business is the segment that alert scrap recyclers pay close attention to when managing their operations.
While scrap dealers can rightfully consider 2003 and 2004 ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The development of new families of copper alloys is alerting the secondary smelting and refining industry to new metallurgical problems. At the same time it is sending tremors through the red metal recycling industry that eventually will have to process and sell these exotic alloys.
"We currently are having difficulties selling ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Amorphous copper alloys have found a new application in footwear.
An insole coated with a particular copper alloy can be very effective against germs and foot odor. It was developed and is being marketed by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Tokyo, jointly with two footwear manufacturers, Apatite Co. and Morito ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The powder metal industry is under the gun to come up with new low-lead or non-lead copper alloys, a speaker said last week at the Powder Metallurgy Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.
The authors of a technical paper on machining characteristics of prototype powder metal brasses were Thomas W. Pelletiers II, ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Motoman's (www.motoman.com) ArcWorld C-500 workcell features an integrated cylindrical robot safety enclosure that allows the operator to work safely in direct proximity to the work area; the robot can access parts through an opening in the front of the enclosure. Two new headstock positioners with 110-mm diameter through-holes for tooling ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The thermal annealing behavior of Cu films containing insoluble 2.0 at.% Mo magnetron co-sputtered on Si substrates is discussed in the present study. The Cu-Mo films were vacuum annealed at temperatures ranging from 200°C to 800°C. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations have shown that Cu^sub 4^Si ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Known worldwide copper resources are estimated at nearly 2.6 trillion kilograms (5.8 trillion pounds), of which only about 12 percent (300 billion kilograms; 804 billion pounds) has been mined throughout history. Nearly all of this mined copper is still in circulation, as copper's recycling rate is higher than that of ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Are cupronickel ship hulls the next big market opportunity for metals producers? Walter Loyal, vice president and chief executive officer of a start-up company catering to that market, thinks so.
"It could be a million-pound-a-year market once it is developed," he said in a recent interview.
Loyal's Cooper-Nickel Boat Co. Ltd., Deal ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Available from 1/2-2 hp, Super-E[R] Motors are impervious to rust and deterioration caused by frequent high-pressure caustic sanitizing in food processing and pharmaceutical plants. Encapsulated windings and conduit box lead entry hole, utilizing E3 Effusion Epoxy Encapsulation(TM) process, stop moisture from reaching windings. Hydrophobic aspiration system prevents condensation moisture ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
The Spectrum Series boiler is now available with an optional stainless steel jacket, which is designed to provide corrosion resistance for indoor or outdoor installations. The boiler features a reversible, two- or four-pass heat exchanger made from commercial-grade 7/8 in. I.D. finned copper tubes which are extruded from the tubing ...
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