...of Austria, the Glock pistol was the first of its kind to combine polymer and steel components in a single firearm. Glock pistols are also the first to introduce a material enhancement technique known as Tenifer. The combining of polymer and steel components along with the introduction of a Tenifer finish has revolutionized the world of handguns. This literary review examines the three main components that make up a Glock Safe Action Pistol: the development and use of polymer in the frame, use of ordinance grade steel, and the Tennifer® anticorrosion finish applied to the ordinance steel in the handgun. This examination of Glock components will reveal the composition of the selected materials. I will also bring to light any environmental and safety issues. Lastly, this review will discuss the impact of these materials on the firearms industry. Glock Essentials pg. 3 To begin with, as previously stated Gaston glock of Austria Developed and introduced the Glock pistol in 1982. Being that Mr. Glock had no previous firearm experience, developing pistols for the Austrian army would be thought of as a challenge. However this was not true due to the fact that Mr. Glock was proficient in the manufacturing of plastic components such as curtain rods and curtain rod rings. Even more importantly, Mr. Glock realized the strength and durability that could be obtained by combining plastic and steel parts to function in sync as seen in the Glock pistol. The glock safe action...
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...A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS MODEL FOR THE BEHAVIOUR OF COLD-FORMED STEEL CHANNEL COLUMNS UNDER AXIAL THRUST MASTURA BINTI RAFEK Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Civil UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA 2010 A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS MODEL FOR THE BEHAVIOUR OF COLD-FORMED STEEL CHANNEL COLUMNS UNDER AXIAL THRUST By MASTURA BINTI RAFEK This report is submitted as a requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Civil UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA MARCH 2010 DECLARATION BY THE CANDIDATE I (Mastura Binti Rafek, 2007121693) confirm that the work in this report is my own work and the appropriate credit has been given where references have been made to the work of other researchers. (………………………………………….) Student Name : Mastura Binti Rafek Student ID : 2007121693 Date : 31st MARCH 2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to ALLAH S.W.T for giving me the guidance and strength in making this research project proposal a success. I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to all those who helped me navigate this long and fruitful journey. Sincerest thanks go to my supervisor Mr. Mohd. Raizamzamani Bin Md. Zain for his guidance, knowledge, patience, supervision and encouragement towards me in preparation of this study. His are ever dynamic and also his dedication in encourage of young researcher. Not forget, great appreciation go to my friends for their co- operation in completion this project. Finally, to my family...
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...BSRM Steels Ltd. Work Plan for SWOT Analysis Duration: 2 months (15th February to 15th April) Project Manager: Mr. Mahmud SWOT Steps/Activities | Data Sources | Data Collection Method | Responsible Person | Working Group | Logistics Supports | Required Fund | Timeline | Remarks | Analysis of General Environment | Primary & Secondary | Survey, govt. & regulatory publications, etc. | Mr. Adnan & Mr. Masud | 4 | Transport, survey instruments, technological support. | TK. 100,000 | 15th Feb to 14th March | Info gathered from both sources. | Analysis of Industrial Environment | Secondary | SEC publications, industry competitive analysis, business journal, industrial publications etc. | Ms. Shanila& Ms. Sinthia | 3 | Company’s database access, Technological support, analyzing tools. | TK. 70,000 | 15th Feb to 14th March | | Analysis of Internal Environment | Secondary | Company profile, minutes of meetings, financial statement etc. | Mr. Muhib | 2 | Factory inspection, company’s database access, analyzing tools. | TK. 50,000 | 15th March to 31st March | | Describing 1. General OT 2. Industry OT 3. Internal SW | Secondary | Findings from external & internal environment analysis | Ms. Tahmina | 1 | Technical support, fact finding tools. | TK. 20,000 | 1st April to 14th April | Describe the findings of previous steps | Strategic Conclusion | This work plan will be taken as cornerstone of SWOT analysis of BSRM Steels...
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...AN ASSIGNMENT ON MERGER AND ACQUISITION OF Tata Steel and Corus BY Lokesh Bhatiya 09MBA02 SEMESTER 4 INTRODUCTION: STEEL INDUSTRY Contribution in the development of India’s economic growth: The Indian steel industry is more than 100 years old now. The first steel ingot was rolled on 16th February 1912 - a momentous day in the history of industrial India. Steel is crucial to the development of any modern economy and is considered to be the backbone of the human civilization. The level of per capita consumption of steel is treated as one of the important indicators of socio-economic development and living standard of the people in any country. It is a product of a large and technologically complex industry having strong forward and backward linkages in terms of material flow and income generation. All major industrial economies are characterized by the existence of a strong steel industry and the growth of many of these economies has been largely shaped by the strength of their steel industries in their initial stages of development. India is the seventh largest steel producer in the world, employing over half a million people directly with a cumulative capital investment of around Rs. one lakh crore. It is a core sector essential for economic and social development of the country and crucial for its defense. The Indian iron and steel industry contributes about Rs.8,000 crore to the national exchequer in the form of excise and custom...
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... CR retail distribution, and geographic segmentation. In OEM distribution, the customers specify the grade of steel that they require and the company takes responsibility to supply them the same grade of steel in the agreed cut to size condition. In retail distribution, companies maintain stocks of material for feeding its retail chain and provide Value for money products. In Distribution, the Steel Mills are the key suppliers and they play a very valuable role in the supply chain as they are responsible for providing the correct quality of steel, its timely delivery, post- sales support and joint marketing support. TATA STEEL DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL G C sheets: Traditionally G C sheets were considered as a commodity. Over time, TISCO has succeeded in differentiating its product and becoming a market leader. Presently it has 32% market share in the G C sheets industry. The company serves a wide variety of consumers, ranging from reputed contractors to retail users from the private sector organisation to the public sector undertakings. These consumers can be classified into 3 major groups: 1) Government 2) Retailer (B TO C) 3) Private sector consumers (B TO B) To cater to the needs of all its consumers, the company does both (B to B selling) and retail outlets (B to C selling). Bulk orders come under direct selling and small order from retail outlets. Tata steel has selected 28 distributors in different location across India. Every distributor is given 2 days training session...
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...Manikandan Tata’s Corus Valuation Introduction: Tata Steel was established by an Indian, Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata in 1907. Though he died in 1904, before the project came to light, he sowed the seeds for a company that can stand the test of times. A century later, they took over Corus to become the 5th largest steel producer in the world. On January 31st 2007, Tata Steel took over Corus for USD 12.11 Billion. It took 9 rounds of bidding against a Brazilian competitor, CSN to seal the deal. The deal between Tata and Corus was officially announced on April 2nd 2007 at a price of 608 pence per common share in cash. It was a 100% acquisition and a new entity was born, to be run by one of Tata’s subsidiary in London. When the acquisition process started off in 2005, the initial offer was 455 pence and finally ended with Tata paying 608 pence, which is 33.6% more than the initial offer. This raises many an eyebrows about the final price. What transpired between 2005 and 2007? Was 608 pence/share a fair price? Steel Industry Tata Steel has its own mines and manufacturing units for the production of all kinds of steel. Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight depending on the grade. Iron, like most metals, is found in the Earth's crust only in the form of an ore, i.e. combined with other elements such as oxygen or sulfur. Iron imputed with carbon forms steel. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for...
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...Year Eleven Chemistry Rust prevention in coating. Introduction/Abstract. The context of ships rusting at sea. Steel has many properties that make it a useful and essential building material in boats. Its strength and durability make it a great choice for structures exposed to high amounts of stress, such as weather, heat, large amounts of applied force and constant usage and is also a viable option for the sea although it can still be bettered. Steel is better protected by; galvanisation, waterproof paint or a sacrificial anode to better the corrosion protection for boats in the water compared to just bare steel framework (Corrosion methods, Corrosion-doctors.com;) these methods in theory protect the steel from the chlorides and salts to further the durability and life of the framework of a boat and hence allow them to endure more, and with corrosion costing $2.7 billion to just ships alone it’s easy to see why corrosion must be prevented. (The cost to the world because of corrosion with ships at $2.7 billion.) The chemistry of rust. Rust is caused by a few factors; moisture is the leading cause of rust along with water and salt, all making boats the most common victims of rust. (4 Fe+ 3O2 + 6 H2O= 4 Fe(OH)3,) Both water and oxygen must be present for rust to start and with water and oxygen on its own enough for rust to start destroying the structure of a boat, but along with salt to the water, it’ll become evident quickly that rust can be a big problem for many boat...
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...1.0 Introduction of small business 1 In this assignment I would like to introduce the small business owner who selling and serving of hand phone. The shop name is BS Communication Enterprise is located at No 156, Jalan Siakap, 34300, Bagan Serai, Perak. The shop owner is Mr Ng Han Wah, have four workers, three female workers and one male worker to run the hand phone business. The job function of three female workers is at the front desk for sale and products introduction. The male worker is concentrate on repair and service of hand phone. Their business goal is to provide the best services in this area and providing good services even to a small base of people. BS Communication Enterprise shop 1.1 The business level strategy The business level strategy used is Cost leadership implies that the company has the ability to successfully under price its competition. Pricing strategy refers to how this small company uses pricing to achieve its strategic goals, such as offering lower prices to increase sales volume and to decrease backlog. They begin developing pricing strategies such as offering low price for slow moving items and very low margin profit for fast moving items to increasing cash flow, and warding off competition. They also take into account current market conditions when developing pricing strategies to ensure that the prices they choose fit market conditions. In addition, effective pricing strategy involves considering customers, costs, competition, and different...
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... Nucor Corporation was the most profitable steel producer in North America in both 2005 and 2006. It is regarded as a low-cost steel producer in the United States, and one of the most efficient and technologically innovative steel producers in the world. Nucor is known for its aggressive pursuit of innovation and technical excellence, rigorous quality systems, strong emphasis on employee relations and workforce productivity, cost conscious corporate culture, and ability to achieve low costs per ton produced (C-194). Offering a streamlined organizational structure, Nucor uses its ability to achieve incentive-based compensation systems that rewards goal-orientated individuals for their performance. Over the years Nucor has expanded progressively into the manufacturer of a wider and wider range of steel products, which has gotten it to be able to offer steel users one of the broadest product lineups in the industry. In this industry steel products are considered commodities, and most steel plants turn out products with comparable quality to other companies. This makes one producer’s reinforcing bar essentially the same as another producer’s reinforcing bar, which in turn makes a particular grade of sheet steel made at one plant almost identical to the same grade of sheet steel made from another plant (C-195). Because of this, steel producers are forced to be price-competitive with the market price of each individual steel product being driven by demand-supply conditions...
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...SLAG - IRON AND STEEL December, 2014 16-1 SLAG - IRON AND STEEL 16 Slag - Iron and Steel S lag is a by-product generated during manufacturing of pig iron and steel. It is produced by action of various fluxes upon gangue materials within the iron ore during the process of pig iron making in blast furnace and steel manufacturing in steel melting shop. Primarily, the slag consists of calcium, magnesium, manganese and aluminium silicates in various combinations. The cooling process of slag is responsible mainly for generating different types of slags required for various end-use consumers. Although, the chemical composition of slag may remain unchanged, physical properties vary widely with the changing process of cooling. In an integrated steel plant, 2 to 4 tonnes of wastes (including solid, liquid and gas) are generated for every tonne of steel produced. A c c o r d i n g l y, t o d a y t h e e m p h a s i s i s o n t h e avoidance of waste generation, recycling and reuse of waste, and minimising the adverse impact of disposal on the environment. Among all the solid/liquid wastes, slags generated at iron making and steel making units are created in the largest quantities. With increasing capacities, disposal of large quantities of slag becomes a big environmental concern and a critical issue for steel makers. Over the last few years, with a better understanding of slags, its functions and improvements in process technologies have led ...
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...Renz Erick R. Delgado BSCE 4 200810163 “STEEL” BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE MATERIAL Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. It also consists of small quantities such as manganese, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, tungsten, cobalt, or silicon. It is generally hard, strong, durable, malleable alloy and depending on the desired alloy properties, the constituents in steel vary. The density of steel varies based on the alloying constituents, but usually ranges between 7,750 and 8,050 kg/m3 (484 and 503 lb/cu ft), or 7.75 and 8.05 g/cm3 (4.48 and 4.65 oz/cu in). Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten. Carbon and other elements act as a hardening agent, preventing dislocations in the iron atom crystal lattice from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of alloying elements and the form of their presence in the steel (solute elements, precipitated phase) controls qualities such as the hardness, ductility, and tensile strength of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder and stronger than iron, but such steel is also less ductile than iron. Though steel had been produced by various inefficient methods long before the Renaissance, its use became more common after more-efficient production methods were devised...
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...on 24 January 1973, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is one of the largest state-owned steel making company based in New Delhi, India and one of the top steel makers in world. It is a public sector undertaking which trades publicly in the market is largely owned by Government of India and acts like an operating company. SAIL operates and owns 5 integrated steel plants at Rourkela, Bhilai, Durgapur, Bokaro and Burnpur and 3 special steel plants at Salem, Durgapur and Bhadravathi. It also owns a Ferro Alloy plant at Chandrapur. Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is the largest steel-making company in India and one of the seven Maharatna’s of the country’s Central Public Sector Enterprises. Since its inception, SAIL has been instrumental in laying a sound infrastructure for the industrial development of the country. Besides, it has immensely contributed to the development of technical and managerial expertise. It has triggered the secondary and tertiary waves of economic growth by continuously providing the inputs for the consuming industry. RELEVANCE OF SAIL TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY Firstly, let’s talk about why is steel generally important in every economy? Steel has had a major influence on our lives, the cars we drive, the buildings we work in, the homes in which we live and countless other facets in between. Steel is used in our electricity-power-line towers, natural-gas pipelines, machine tools, military weapons-the list is endless. Steel has also earned a place...
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...Part-A: - Executive Summary: 1. Project background & promoters 1.1 PROJECT AT GLANCE 6 MVA * 1 Sub merged Arc Furnace for Manufacture of Ferro Manganese, Silico Manganese SHARANYA NATURAL RESOURCES & INFRA PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED H NO 1-2-110 Shanthi Nagar, Adilabad Andhra Pradesh 1. Sri Sanjay Kumar Makhariya 2. Sri P Shankar 3. Smt P Uma Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh Ferro Alloys - Silico Manganese (SiMn.) / Ferro Manganese (FeMn.) Used in Steel Industry 6*1 MVA Furnace Sub merged Arc Furnace for Ferro Manganese, Silico Manganese (4800 TPA SiMn and 7000 TPA FeMn based on equal utilization for both the products) Rs. 1792.33 Lakhs (Say 1792 lakhs) 60% 85% 90% Rs.868.00 lakhs Existing Proposed Term Loan – NIL Rs. 925.00 Lacs CC Limit – NIL Rs. 403.00 Lacs LC/FLC -NIL Rs. 50.00 Lacs One (1) Year Moratorium from Commercial production + 6 Years – Total Seven (7) years from Commercial production Name of the Company Registered Office Names of the Board of Directors Plant location Product Application Installed capacity Project Cost Capacity utilization of Year 2013-14 Year 2014-15 Year 2015-16 & onwards Promoter’s Contribution Banking limit - Term loan - Cash credit - LC/FLC Repayment Period Debt-Equity Ratio Project total (overall) TERM Loan (only) 1.53 : 1 1.07 : 1 3.49 times 5.05 times 40.51% Average DSCR - Gross - Net IRR SHARANYA NATURAL RESOURCES & INFRA PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED H NO 1-2-110 Shanthi Nagar, Adilabad Andhra Pradesh Page 1 of 76 1.2. ABOUT...
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...taken by an individual manager or by an organization at the strategic, functional or operational levels Reinventing a Giant Corporation: The Case of Tata Steel D V R Seshadri and Arabinda Tripathy A KEY WORDS Reinvention Change Management Turnaround Tata Steel Liberalization Response to Globalization t the meeting of the senior management of Tata Steel to celebrate the spectacular performance of the company, Mr. B Muthuraman, the Managing Director, recalled with satisfaction the remarkable strides that the company had made from the difficult days in the early nineties, when the company, used to a protected environment, was suddenly thrown open to global competition, consequent to the liberalization of the Indian economy. The company had closed the year with a record profit of Rs. 34.74 billion. A series of initiatives launched by the company over the last 15 years had culminated in these stellar results although there were many challenges at every step. At each stage in its journey, the company did what needed to be done. In retrospect, however, the various initiatives launched by the company over the years now appeared to fit into a coherent picture. The company had made steady progress over the years and had now achieved a pre-eminent status in the Indian steel industry. It had become one of the lowest cost steel producers in the world five years ago, a distinction that it had continued to maintain. All key performance indicators indicated that the company was in the...
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...explain why this company is so successful? - Recyclng steel in efficient mini-mills is the secret of Nucor’s success - Location has also played a part in Nucor’s success - Strategy has been one of the biggest factors of success of Nucor Would you like to work for Nucor? Yes, because it not only take care of employees but also take care of employees family. Nucor provides various benefits plan of employees. Nucor provides performance based compensation. Why have competitors not been to imitate Nucor’s performance so far? Adopted the technological advancement. Manufacturing facilities economically and operating them productively. Nucor has effective HR policies. 1. Why has Nucor performed so well?a. Is Nucor's industry the answer? Is it the "mini-mill" effect?c. Is it market power )scale economies)?d. Is it a distribution channel advantage?c. Is it a raw material advantage?f Is it a technology advantage?g. Is it a location advantage?h. Is it the result of an entrenched brand name?i. Is it Nucor's choice of a unique strategy? j. Is it Nucor's ability to execute its strategy Nucor’s focuses on 2 major competencies i.e. building steel manufacturing facilities economically and operating them productively. The company’s hallmarks were continuous innovation, modern equipment, individualized customer service, and a commitment to producinghigh quality steel and steel products at competitive prices.The general...
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