the aim of the paper is to survey factors productivity in small & medium scale manufactories located in toos industrial town. in order to achieve this purpose, production functions of different industrial groups are estimated on the base of cross-section data in 2005. then elasticity of factors production, average productivity, marginal productivity, labor intensive and capital intensive are de...

1 Matti Väänänen, HAMK – University of Applied Sciences, [email protected] Abstract HAMK University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with industry and with public funding is developing a new way to improve the know-how in the area of local metal industry. The whole “package” InnoSteel consists of a group of projects which contain support for product development of innovative companies an...

This report presents the results of PRCs waste audit study for the metal finishing industry. The study was conducted to identify opportunities for waste reduction available to the metal finishing industry and to develop a generic audit protocol that can be used by metal finishers to assess their own waste reduction opportunities. The study emphasized technologies available to smalland medium-si...

There is a growing public concern over the potential accumulation of heavy metals in soil, owing to rapid industrial development. In an effort to describe the status of the pollutions of soil by industrial activities, relevant data sets reported by many studies were surveyed and reviewed. The results of our analysis indicate that soils were polluted most significantly by metals such as lead, zi...

New manufacturing technologies are developed fast in order to keep up with the market demands, both in the field of metal cutting and metal forming. The Asymmetric single point incremental forming (ASPIF) is a manufacturing technology with a high degree of novelty, which allows the user to manufacture complex parts by metal forming, using only a punch and an active plate without the need of usi...

The microbial contamination of water miscible metalworking fluids (MWFs) is a serious problem in metal industry. A good maintenance of MWF re-circulation systems can extend the lifetime of coolants and ensure the quality of the tools produced. In MWFs, as in the other water-based environments, microorganisms usually live in the form of biofilms, the communities of bacteria and fungi attached to...