Along with the socio-economic development, agriculture has a natural tendency to increase productivity. Its effect is unfavourable for farmers agricultural overproduction. In this situation, the relatively constant food needs of individual societies are able to be met by an ever smaller number...

This research, involving CENIM, CORUS, Sidenor and SIMR examined the effect of compositional and processing variables on the grain coarsening characteristics of steels. Compositional variables examined included nitrogen (typical of BOS and EAF steels), aluminium, niobium, titanium and vanadium....

The present investigation clearly shows that there exists an 'inclusion path' during the ladle treatment largely influencing the formation of liquid Ca aluminates. The inclusion path for the heats with RH treatment markedly differs from the heats without RH treatment. This may be mainly caused...

This was a collaborative project involving Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Helsinki University of Technology, Centre de Recherches Métallurgiques, ArcelorMittal and ComdiCast AB. Stiftelsen for Industriell og Teknisk Forskning was also participating as subcontractor. The project objectives were...

Policy, administration and industry need medium-term projections of the expected developments in the agri-food markets for their decision-making processes. The EU Commission presents such projections for the EU as a whole in December of each year. Those projections and their assumptions...