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Article: Metals industry boom benefits instrumentation.
- Article from:
- Instrument Business Outlook
- Article date:
- November 30, 2006
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The resurgence of the metals industry has brought an increase in sales for selected analytical techniques. Driven by demand from China as well as a dearth of new mining projects, prices for metals such as steel, copper and zinc have set new records in recent years. As a result, investment in the metals industry, from mining to production to recycling, has accelerated. Increased production volume, new facilities and development of new metal-based products have led to demand for analytical systems that are used at all stages of metals processing, including R&D of new composite materials, raw material analysis, finished product quality control and alloy sorting.
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