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刊名：The Refractories Engineer

ISSN：1362-4547

出版年：2002-01-05

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期：november

起页：20

止页：21

分类号：TQ175

语种：英文

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The ability for UK manufacturing industry to compete in world markets received a major boost with the recent announcement by Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt of PowdermatriX, a new Faraday Partnership for Rapid Manufacturing through Powder Processing. "Faraday Partnerships play a vital role by helping firms to work in close collaboration with the best researchers to produce innovative new products and processes" said Hewitt. "They make the most of developments in science and innovation - crucial to raising productivity." Over 60 percent of all industrial products involve powder materials and processing, so the ability to produce such materials and manufacture them into successful structural components is critical to a wide range of industries and markets. From a PC disc reader to a machine cutting tool, a dental filling to a watch case, the range of applications involved is extremely broad. Nevertheless, the advanced ceramics, powder metallurgy, magnetic materials and hardmetals sectors have characteristics in common, and it is here that opportunities exist for the development of new manufacturing routes, the use of nanopowders, the manufacture of novel function and structural components, and for environmentally sustainable products with low waste.