Issue 59

FACTS

2 Pham Chi Cuong: 49 year activities of the Vietnam Science and Technology Asociation for Foundry and Metallurgy

NEWS

5 2015 travelling seminar “Energy efficiency advances in modern steel mills”

7 Tran Kim Tuan: The role of nuclear energy and human resource for Vietnams nuclear power plant

11 Nguyen Van Sua: World crude steel output in 2014

13 Meeting of AISC (asean iron and steel council) and dia- logue with CISA (China iron and steel association)

14 News of metallurgical industry

RESEARCH

31 Vo The Son, Luu Tuan Anh, Le Van Thang, Hoang Minh Nam: Design and manufacturing the vacuum plasma furnace with a cold mold-bottom for melting and casting titanium materials

36 Vu Huy Thang, Tran Quoc Lap: The mechanism of carbother- mal reduction process of high-energy mechanical milling mixture of Cr2O3 and C

41 Quach Tat Bat: Identifying the process window (optimal section) by thermal expansion analysing in Austempered ductile iron (ADI) manufacturing process

ENVIRONMENT

47 Nguyen Duc Khien: Intergration of environmental manage- ment with social – economic development