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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Intermediate means a substance that is manufactured for and consumed in or used for chemical processing in order to be transformed into another substance […]. Intermediates are exempted from authorisation under REACH Art. 2(1c) and Art. 2(8b) 1 Background During the manufacture of slide gate assemblies, PRE member companies use “Coal Tar Pitch high temperature” …

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    Ceramic minerals – Taking the floor

Steel reinforcement bars are about as unglamorous an industrial product as one can get. Their rally in China this week is anything but, with a surge to the highest since 2014 that’s helping to boost iron ore. Rebar futures jumped for the fourth straight day on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, advancing 6.1 percent to 2,750 …

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The tiered approach to free allowance allocation for the EU ETS carbon leakage list is a concept which undermines the aim of the EU ETS and contradicts the October 2014 European Council Conclusions. It would not ensure the delivery of cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions, but on the contrary would have a deleterious impact on …

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