Chernye Metally

The No. 1 (2016) issue of "Chernye metally" journal is opened by presenting of the new chief editor of this edition – Valeriy Kolokoltsev, the rector of Magnitogorsk State Technical University.

This issue also contains expanded versions of its conventional sections “Iron and steel news of the world”, “News of metallurgical companies” and “Steel as material”.

The scientific-technical section is started by publication about study of the effect of piercing plugs manufacturing technology on structural features of superficial and internal oxide layers by M. Chubykov, D. Rutskiy, N. Zyuban and D. Uskov. It was established that forged plug has more favourable marostructure compared with cast one, but it is characterized by non-metallic inclusions, what decreases plugs quality.

B. Akselrod and V. Chumakov have analyzed in their article innovative approach to the new technological developments on the example of “OMZ – Foundry production” company. The work observes the new approach to internal innovatization in order to intensify this process using TRIZ (Theory of solcing engineering tasks) production methodology.

H. J. Kerkhoff, the President of “Steel” economical union, investigated current state and development prospects of the Eoropean steel market, taking into account increase of steel export from China in 2015 and nationalization of Ilva company (Italy). The author emphasized anxiety og the German metallurgy (first of all) about the principles of the European ecological policy, connected with more strict routes of emissions trade.

We also recommend to read the interview of K. Bartels, one of the VDMA leaders, about ther features of the market of metallurgical equipment.

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