China’s steel mills, which supply half of global output, churned out less steel in the first two months of the year, extending a decline amid government efforts to reduce reliance on manufacturing for growth. Crude-steel production for the January-to-February period dropped 5.7 percent from a year earlier to 121.07 million metric tons, data published by …

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El pasado día 29 de junio tuvo lugar en el Hotel Ayre de  Oviedo el VIII Congreso de Materiales, Maquinaria y Montaje de Refractarios. Congreso que resultó todo un éxito con casi 80 congresistas procedentes de distintos países. El Congreso se abrió con una Espicha asturiana , donde además de charlar y degustar una variada …

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PRE congress 2016 in Krakow, Poland The 63rd PRE congress took place in Krakow, Poland and was attended by over 80 participants from 13 European countries. During the PRE Economic Committee and General Assembly, PRE members were updated on 2015 PRE production statistics and the different European policies currently being debated in the European institutions …

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The Freiberg Refractories Forum 2015 was organized on 8-9 December 2015 in Freiberg/DE by the Institute of Ceramics, Glass and Construction Materials (IKGB) at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in cooperation with the DFG (German Research Foundation) to present the result of the second research period of the DFG-project «Refractories Iniciative for the Reduction …

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Este mes de junio ha tenido lugar en Llanera, Oviedo, el Curso de Materiales Refractarios ofrecido por ANFRE e impartido por el ITMA. Este curso ha sido íntegramente para personal de las empresas asociadas de ANFRE. Se ha tratado de un curso en el que se ha combinado a la perfección las clases teóricas con …

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