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Metal Making in Motion
Technology Choices for Sustainable Metals Production

By Ellen Moors
December 2000
Delft University Press
ISBN: 90-407-2075-4 [book cover]
355 pages, illustrated
$84.00 paper original

This Ph.D. thesis focuses on the conditions enabling and constraining the development and implementation of incremental and radical technological innovations in the metal production industry in order to gain more insight into the way industrial production can take up the factor 4 to 10 challenge of sustainable development. Contents include: Industrial production and sustainable development. Technological innovation and the firm. Choices in technological innovation: A technology dynamics perspective. The systems-network conceptual framework. Technology choices in aluminum, zinc, and iron/steel production. Conclusions and recommendations.

Industrial Engineering