Your kinda town? Chicago beckons powder enthusiasts to PM~2TEC 2004

摘要

With more than 40 technical sessions, special interest programmes and an optional design seminar, PM TEC 2004 is following precedent in offering delegates a packed menu to choose from. But there's more. For this year there is also a special emphasis on hardmetals with a symposium dealing with cemented tungsten carbides, cermets and other hard materials that lies across the four days of the conference and exhibition in Chicago. Razed to the ground by a disastrous fire in the late 19th Century, Chicago rose like a Phoenix to become not just the meeting place of America's growing industrial heart and the rolling plains to the west, but a substantial industrial entity in its own right. Notorious in the wild days of the Roaring '20s of Prohibition, speak-easies, Al Capone and Bugs Moran, Chicago has matured into one of the United States' major cities, recognised internationally as a centre of commerce and manufacturing, art and music.