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International steel trade.

This book provides a basic guide to the iron and steel industry in a single convenient reference source. The origins of steel and its manufacture are explained first, with a basic outline of the principal steel grades. The author then goes on to look at production and consumption and its commercial...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Woodhead Pub., 1995.
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520 |a This book provides a basic guide to the iron and steel industry in a single convenient reference source. The origins of steel and its manufacture are explained first, with a basic outline of the principal steel grades. The author then goes on to look at production and consumption and its commercial significance. He also analyses the global trade in steel and shows its importance to the metals industry as alloying elements and coatings. The final section considers the future for steel, the changing trade patterns, environmental issues and the threat of substitutes to the industry. 
505 0 |a Front Cover; The International Steel Trade; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Background and origins of steel; What is steel; Importance of steel; A world without steel; Origins and development of steel; CHAPTER 2. Properties and applications of steel; Unalloyed steels; Stainless steels and heat-resisting steels; Alloy steels; CHAPTER 3. Steel products and manufacturing process; Ironmaking; Steelmaking; Pouring and teeming; Hot rolling; Other hot forming processes; Cold working; Surface coating; CHAPTER 4. Production of iron and steel; Crude steel production. 
505 8 |a Iron productionTrends in iron and steel manufacture; Continuous casting; CHAPTER 5. Steelmaking raw materials; Iron ore production; World trade in iron ore; Types of iron ore; Iron ore pricing; Scrap consumption; Scrap trade; Types of scrap; Scrap prices; CHAPTER 6. Steel consumption; Apparent consumption of finished steel; Apparent consumption of crude steel; Apparent consumption per capita; Consumption of steel products; CHAPTER 7. Patterns of trade in steel; Exports of steel; Imports of steel; Trade flows; Geographical distribution of trade; Main traded products; Economics of steel trade. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER 8. Steel pricingSelling mechanism; Pricing mechanism; World price trends; Prices in major consuming markets; Market price comparisons; CHAPTER 9. Commercial and economic significance of steel; Infrastructure; Industrial development; Economic development; Raw materials; Energy; The environment; Metals; Manufacturing costs; Evolution of crude steel production; Steel producers; CHAPTER 10. Future trends; Steel demand; Geographical distribution of consumption; Geographical distribution of production; Steel products; New products; Production processes; Location of steel plants. 
505 8 |a Environmental considerationsPrices; Substitution threats; Corporate changes; Index. 
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