A professional reference source, this handbook will be issued in loose-leaf form and regularly updated by means of supplements. The first part of the book covers the markets, the participants, trading techniques and strategies, and their management, accounting, tax and legal implications. The second part deals with the steel-alloying metals themselves and within separate sections devoted to individual metals, details origins and production, properties and uses, structure and conduct of the trade, recent market trends, and a consideration of how these may affect the short-, medium- and long-term international trading picture.
A professional reference source, this handbook will be issued in loose-leaf form and regularly updated by means of supplements. The first part of the book covers the markets, the participants, trading techniques and strategies, and their management, accounting, tax and legal implications. The second part deals with the steel-alloying metals themselves and within separate sections devoted to individual metals, details origins and production, properties and uses, structure and conduct of the trade, recent market trends, and a consideration of how these may affect the short-, medium- and long-term international trading picture.
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Elsevier Science & Technology
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Maße
Höhe: 247 mm
Breite: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85573-048-9 (9781855730489)
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Herausgeber*in
Marketing Director, London Metal Exchange
Part 1 The steel industry: history and backgrounds - discovery of stainless steel, development, expansion; the market for stainless steels - applications, major stainless grades and their end-users, austenitic, martenistic, ferritic trends, geographic trends in stainless consumption, outlook for stainless demand; production of stainless steels - where - geographic location, how - changing methods, impact of continuous casting etc, by whom - the major companies, outlook for production; the impact of the scrap market - trends in scrap use, trade in scrap; alloy steels; carbon steel. Part 2 The alloying metals - resources and extraction, properties and uses, the market: nickel, Simon Chow; molybdenum, Christopher Munford; ferro-chrome, David Townsend; tungsten, Andrew Blamey; vanadium, Andrew Blamey; ferro-manganese, Simon Clow; ferro-silicon, Simon Clow; cobalt, Christopher Munford; titanium, James Regan.
