steel production

World’s refractories experts convene in Vienna for Unitecr 2015

By Eileen De Guire / September 18, 2015

I’ve been in Vienna, Austria, attending the 14th Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories (Unitecr). It’s been a great conference in a great city with interesting people working on challenging problems.

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Could a bamboo fiber composite replace steel reinforcements in concrete?

By Jessica McMathis / August 22, 2014

Scientists at Singapore’s Future Cities Laboratory say bamboo, a natural—and unnaturally strong—wood, could serve as a concrete reinforcement replacement in places where steel isn’t so plentiful.

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics world

By P. Carlo Ratto / July 7, 2014

News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.

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