Issue 47

FACTS

2 Report of the Congress of the VFMSTA: V term’s activities (2008-2013) and VI term’s plan

8 International mobile workshop for experience exchange between foreign steel groups and Vietnamese steel companies and organizations

NEWS

4 Pham Chi Cuong: The foreign investments for Vietnamese steel industry
Public opinions on the bauxite projects in Tay Nguyen

12 Suggestions on the bauxite proiects in Tay Nguyen region

15 N.T.Tam: Revaluation of efficiency of the bauxite project Tan Rai

17 Cam Van Kinh: Bauxite mining is more and more losses

19 Vo Van Thanh: We should reconsider the problem of bauxite mining

21 Tran Tan-Le Binh: Waiting for the government to direct the Nhan Co bauxite poject

22 Phong Cam: Vinacomin’s official announcement of stopping port construction in Ke Ga

23 Ha Nhan: The Tay Nguyen bauxite project: just make only when it benefits

25 Pham Kien: Replies of the Minister of Industry and Trade on the bauxite projects

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS

28 Chu Duc Khai, Pasquale Spezzano: The project guidance GF/VIE/08/005

RESEARCH

32 To Duy Phuong, Do Thi Duyen, Le Minh Tuan, Trinh Van Bat: Effect of some technological factors on quality of A356 alloy for cylinder cover

38 Dao Duy Anh, Dao Hong Bach: Removing processing Fe from Mn ores used as a raw material for fused welding flux of high manganese

43 Pham Huu Giang, Dao Hong Bach: Impurity separating processing of Mn ore used as raw material for high-Mn fused welding flux

ENVIRONMENT

48 Nguyen Duc Khien: Maagement measures for wastes contaiming PCB