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BOOK REVIEWS
(2) European and North American Scrap Directory. 1st Edn (1981), 597 pp., f35 (postage and packing not included).
This book gives details of companies involved in the merchanting, brokering and processing of scrap for sale, but not of those concerns which are largely or solely engaged in the buying of scrap for their own use, e.g. refiners or secondary ingot makers. Geographically it covers Canada, the United States and every European country except Turkey and USSR. An alphabetical index of companies (42 pages) facilitates location if one has only the name and not the country of a particular company. There follow 440 pages of detailed listings of companies with addresses, telephone and telex numbers, management personnel, principal activities, plant employed, major scrap products handled, and association membership. A most useful cross-indexing facility is provided in the Product Guide, where one may quickly determine which companies in a given country deal in a particular product. This saves a great deal of tedious hunting through detailed company listings. Produced to the usual high Metal Bulletinstandard, this handbook is another valuable reference tool. (3) Non-Ferrous Metal Works of the World. 3rd Edn (1982), LXXIV + 653 pp., f42 (postage and packing not included). Some eight years after the previous issue, this third edition of Non-Ferrous Metal Works of the World has the same basic layout, i.e. alphabetical arrangement of countries with alphabetical listing of companies within each country, and makes no fundamental alteration to the coverage and presentation of company data. Thus, it includes addresses, telephone, telex and cable information, names of senior personnel and of subsidiary companies, details of plant, raw materials and products, and statistics of production for more than 2000 different companies in 95 countries. It is clear that the diverse nature of non-ferrous metal works has presented problems of the definition of eligibility. Thus, in addition to producers of primary and secondary metal and the makers of semi-fabrications, they have also included producers of alumina on the one hand and those of tubes, powder, etc., at the other. Companies manufacturing wire from rod have been included, as have cable companies drawing their own wire, but some specialised wire and tube producers have been excluded. Given these difficulties of definition it is clear that no “complete” listing is possible. Nonetheless, the volume permits the enquirer to locate easily the principal non-ferrous metal works in a particular country and, by reference to the 70-page Product Guide, to identify manufacturers of given products in any geographical area. It is also invaluable as a source of statistics on the non-ferrous metal industry. (4) World Copper Survey. (1980) 210 pp., El8 (postage and packing not included). The existence of this survey of the world copper industry for 1980 has only just come to the attention of this reviewer. Although some of the material will inevitably have dated, much of it is still relevant and, presumably, the book will serve as a model for any future update. Hence, readers may wish to know the scope of the publication. The volume takes the form of, first, a series of articles entitled: Prospects for Copper in the 1980s; The Need for a Free Price; Market Regulation: the Comex View; Market Regulation: the CFTC View; The Search for a Copper Agreement; Trends in Copper Usage; The Industrialisation of Scrap; Facing up to the 1980s; Impact of By-product Credits on Copper
BOOK REVIEWS
(2) European and North American Scrap Directory. 1st Edn (1981), 597 pp., f35 (postage and packing not included).
This book gives details of companies involved in the merchanting, brokering and processing of scrap for sale, but not of those concerns which are largely or solely engaged in the buying of scrap for their own use, e.g. refiners or secondary ingot makers. Geographically it covers Canada, the United States and every European country except Turkey and USSR. An alphabetical index of companies (42 pages) facilitates location if one has only the name and not the country of a particular company. There follow 440 pages of detailed listings of companies with addresses, telephone and telex numbers, management personnel, principal activities, plant employed, major scrap products handled, and association membership. A most useful cross-indexing facility is provided in the Product Guide, where one may quickly determine which companies in a given country deal in a particular product. This saves a great deal of tedious hunting through detailed company listings. Produced to the usual high Metal Bulletinstandard, this handbook is another valuable reference tool. (3) Non-Ferrous Metal Works of the World. 3rd Edn (1982), LXXIV + 653 pp., f42 (postage and packing not included). Some eight years after the previous issue, this third edition of Non-Ferrous Metal Works of the World has the same basic layout, i.e. alphabetical arrangement of countries with alphabetical listing of companies within each country, and makes no fundamental alteration to the coverage and presentation of company data. Thus, it includes addresses, telephone, telex and cable information, names of senior personnel and of subsidiary companies, details of plant, raw materials and products, and statistics of production for more than 2000 different companies in 95 countries. It is clear that the diverse nature of non-ferrous metal works has presented problems of the definition of eligibility. Thus, in addition to producers of primary and secondary metal and the makers of semi-fabrications, they have also included producers of alumina on the one hand and those of tubes, powder, etc., at the other. Companies manufacturing wire from rod have been included, as have cable companies drawing their own wire, but some specialised wire and tube producers have been excluded. Given these difficulties of definition it is clear that no “complete” listing is possible. Nonetheless, the volume permits the enquirer to locate easily the principal non-ferrous metal works in a particular country and, by reference to the 70-page Product Guide, to identify manufacturers of given products in any geographical area. It is also invaluable as a source of statistics on the non-ferrous metal industry. (4) World Copper Survey. (1980) 210 pp., El8 (postage and packing not included). The existence of this survey of the world copper industry for 1980 has only just come to the attention of this reviewer. Although some of the material will inevitably have dated, much of it is still relevant and, presumably, the book will serve as a model for any future update. Hence, readers may wish to know the scope of the publication. The volume takes the form of, first, a series of articles entitled: Prospects for Copper in the 1980s; The Need for a Free Price; Market Regulation: the Comex View; Market Regulation: the CFTC View; The Search for a Copper Agreement; Trends in Copper Usage; The Industrialisation of Scrap; Facing up to the 1980s; Impact of By-product Credits on Copper