Archive for the ‘Lead’ Category
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Diesel industry and automotive manufacturers have a history of using plastic materials in an effort to realize lower production costs and better performance. Applications vary but can include fan blades, radiator end tanks, surge tanks and connectors. Unfortunately, plastic materials, such as reinforced polypropylene and Nylon 66, are limited and ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Available for Electrovert[R] Electra[R], Vectra(TM), and Econopak[R] Gold wave soldering systems, Quick-Change Solder Pot facilitates changeover between tin/lead and lead-free alloys. Cast iron solder pot and components are resistant to corrosive nature of lead-free solders and withstand temperatures of 600*F. UltraFill(TM) Lead-Free Nozzles are placed close together to minimize temperature ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
The electronics industry is learning to do without: it is having to abandon one of its long-time staples, lead-tin solder. For decades lead--tin solder has been used to attach electronic components to printed wiring boards. However, with the body of evidence pointing to serious adverse health effects of lead, ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Inert, hybrid inorganic/organic, nano-structured chemicals can be incorporated into low melting metallic materials, such as lead-free electronic solders, to achieve desired levels of service performance. The nano-structured materials technology of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS), with appropriate organic groups, can produce suitable means to promote bonding between nano-reinforcements and the metallic ...
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
The tumbling price of copper, which hit a new low on Friday, is causing concern that the price of other base metals is about to plummet.
The price of copper has fallen 36 per cent since its peak last May of $8,800 per tonne. On Friday, it closed at $5,611, exposing ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Bolivia plans to raise the taxes paid by mining companies by almost 600% in a shake-up of the industry set to be announced in the coming weeks.
Mining Minister Guillermo Dalence was quoted in Bolivian daily newspaper La Razon as saying that the leftist government of President Evo Morales received only ...
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
European Goldfields Limited (TSX/AIM: EGU) announced Monday that its subsidiary Hellas Gold S.A. has milled a total of 185,000 wet metric tonnes (wmt) of ore in 2006 at its Stratoni zinc-lead-silver plant in Northern Greece, exceeding the production target of 170,000 wmt for the year.
Ore production rates from underground have ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
London Metal Exchange zinc, nickel and lead fell sharply Monday driven by follow-through fund selling and activity ahead of the rebalancing of a major index, with traders expecting price volatility to remain a key feature this week.
"We saw a continuation from last week's sell-off" in Monday's drop, said a LME ...
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
Lead is normally considered to be unresponsive to heat treatment. Yet, some means of strengthening lead and lead alloys may be required for certain applications. Lead alloys for battery components, for example, can benefit from improved creep resistance in order to retain dimensional tolerances for the full ...
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
London Metal Exchange metals moved higher late Tuesday after breaches of key trend lines in both copper and aluminium sparked a technically-driven rally, traders said.
Copper attracted fresh buying once prices broke through key downtrend line at $4,860 a metric ton, one trader said. Prices then attracted sufficient buying to see ...
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