End User Focus: Reconstruction revives refractories in Japan
By Mike O'Driscoll
Published: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Sluggish steel outlook tempered by cement stimulus from post-quake rebuilding programme
Japan, along with South Korea, Taiwan, and more recently
China, has been one of the great refractory markets of recent
times. One of its key characteristics is that it has always
been at the cutting edge of refractory development and
refractory raw material usage - driven in large part by
its...