Archive for the ‘Chromium’ Category

Commerce sets dumping margin on chromium imports from Japan

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

In the final determination of an anti-dumping case, the Commerce Department set a dumping margin of 129.32 percent for imports from JFE Material Co. Ltd., Shinminato, Japan, and other Japanese suppliers, according to the Federal Register. The anti-dumping case was filed by Eramet Marietta Inc., Marietta, Ohio, and the Paper, ...

Ripping-good stuff: here are three supplements to power your weight-loss goals - The Wright Stuff - Tyrosine, chromium and vanadium

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

What's the deal with tyrosine? Is it worth including it in my fat-loss supplement stack, or should I take a separate tyrosine supplement, and at what dose? A: Although its value and effects depend on your diet and other supplements you take, tyrosine can be quite useful for improving mental ...

Exposure to chromium dust from homes in a chromium surveillance project

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

investigators have identified more than 160 chromate production waste sites within Hudson County, New Jersey--particularly within Jersey City.[1] These sites are distributed throughout the community in both industrial and residential areas. Frequently, the waste material contained concentrations of trivalent chromium in excess of 1 000 ppm and levels of hexavalent ...

Chromium in biological samples from low-level exposed stainless steel and mild steel welders

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE to hexavalent chromium is of concern because of its mutagenic and carcinogenic actions. [1,2] Welding of stainless less (SS) with the manual metal arc (MMA) method may be associated with substantial pulmonal absorption and urinary excretion of chromium. [3-7] The emission of hexavalent chromium at tungsten inert gas ...

Chromium - includes related articles on chromium picolinate and recommended daily amounts

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Lose The Fat; Keep The Muscle," says the ad for chromium picolinate."Rake in the Profits," is more like it. There's no good evidence that chromium--picolinate or any other kind--helps people lose fat or build muscle. But for the millions of Americans who are on their way to diabetes, extra chromium could ...

Purecoat – An Optimised Thermal Spray Process

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Thermal spraying is by no means a new technique. It was invented in 1912 in Switzerland and is well established and widespread with coatings produced in this manner being used in all manner of industries. However, so varied are the possibilities afforded by the process that it is continually evolving ...

Titanium Aluminide – An Innovative Alumina-Based Protective Coating for Titanium Aluminide from NextTechs Technologies

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

This revolutionary development provides an excellent protective oxide coating for titanium aluminide with very strong substrate bonds. Presently, titanium aluminide compounds do not form a good protective oxide coating that prevents oxygen from diffusing into the titanium aluminide and forming oxides that degrade the compound. This is because in air ...

Advanced Powder Technologies Range of Thermal Spray Powders from Praxair

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Praxair Surface Technologies, a division of Praxair Inc have just introduced their Advanced Powder Technology (APT) range of thermal spray powders. The Advanced Powder Technologies system uses patented technologies to produce completely alloyed powders. The powders have a uniform melting behaviour and high deposition rates. Other features that lead to improved ...

Plasma – Infrared Processing – An Introduction

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Infrared technologies are an environmentally clean alternative to salt bath technologies for preferential tempering of large die blocks, flash annealing, joining, preheating and fusing room-temperature sprayed powder coatings. However, the process can often be time consuming and not suitable for applying coatings to all materials such as steel and its ...

PVD Materials – Materials Available for Physical Vapour Deposition ( PVD ) from Williams Advanced Materials

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Williams Advanced Materials provides materials in a variety of shapes and forms including Slugs, Starter charges, Crucibles, Targets - all configurations. Wire, Clips, Rod, Splatter, Random Shot, Tube Other related services include: ·         State-of-the-art Bonding Centers located worldwide. ·         Refining and recycling of precious metal scrap. ·         Complete metallurgical, chemical and functional test lab. ...