Glossary

Metals and Resource Circulation Business Related Terms

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CFS Program
CFS is an acronym for conflict-free smelter. Used mainly in reference to smelting and refining operations, a CFS program is one that is audited and verified by a third party as not involving conflict minerals.
Conflict Minerals
This is a general term for minerals produced in regions of conflict, the purchase of which could go toward the funding of local armed insurgents and therefore make the purchaser complicit in the region's disputes. The term refers in particular to four minerals—tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—mined in the Congo and its neighboring countries.
E-Scrap
Discarded circuit boards from various types of electronic devices are referred to as E-Scrap and contain a high concentration of gold, silver, copper, palladium and other varuable metals.

Copper & Copper Alloy Business Related Terms

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Copper & Copper Alloys
This is a general term referring to products of copper, brass (copper to which zinc has been added), phosphor bronze (also contains tin and phosphorous), nickel silver (also contains nickel and zinc) and other copper alloys that have undergone hot and cold plastic working processes (such as melting, casting, rolling, drawing and forging) to transform them into various shapes, including sheets, strips, pipes, rods and wires.
Eco-Brass
This is the product name of a lead-free copper alloy
Lead Frame
Used in ICs, LSIs and other semiconductor packages, lead frames are the terminals that provide rigid support for a semiconductor element (semiconductor chip) and act as terminals connecting to external wiring.
Lead-Free Copper Alloys
These copper alloys do not contain lead, which can affect the human body and impact the environment during disposal.

Electronic Materials and Components Business Related Terms

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Fine Pitch Assembly
In the electronics field, mounting technologies refer to technologies for soldering electronic components onto printed substrates and are often indicated as through hole mounting or surface mounting technology (SMT). Precision mounting is not a clearly defined term, but it indicates a technology for precisely mounting components to a higher level of precision and with a fine pitch to achieve higher densities. This type of mounting is made possible through BGAs and other packaging that achieves increasing miniaturization and multiple pin count, as well as corresponding joining technologies.
Hydrophilic and Oleophobic
This term refers to a material having two properties that are typically difficult to achieve together: being hydrophilic, or attracting water, and repelling oil.
Inorganic Conductive Materials
Transparent conductive powders and white conductive powders are materials that employ coatings or compounds to prevent static, adjusting materials' charges down to the semiconductor level.
Low Alpha Solder / Plating Chemicals
The alpha rays emitted by solder materials themselves contain energy that can result in the writing over of memories in increasingly miniature and high-speed semiconductor chips, leading to software errors. We use our proprietary metal refining technologies to produce low-alpha-ray materials, which suppress the discharge of alpha rays. These materials are applied to alloyed solder products or plating chemicals to form a film with plating technology.
MEMS
This is an acronym for micro electro mechanical systems. These are devices with a micron-level configuration, comprising machine element component sensors, actuators, electronic circuits on a semiconductor silicon substrate, glass substrate or organic material.*
Semiconductors
Semiconductors have an electrical coductivity value between large conductivity materials such as metals and large electrical registance materials such as insulators. Silicon is used as a base material for semiconductors. Doping semiconductors with various impurities produces P-type and N-type semiconductors, which can be combined to create transistors, ICs, LSIs and other devices.
Silicon Wafers
These wafers are obtained by slicing single-crystal silicon ingots to a thickness of around 1mm. Circular wafers are cut into squares for use in LSIs, CPUs and other devices. Wafers with large diameters are important, as the larger is a wafer's diameter, the easier it becomes to obtain large chips without waste. Wafer diameters of 300mm (12 inches) are currently mainstream.
Sol-Gel Solution
These thin-film forming solutions that use metal alkoxides and other materials are used primarily in the semiconductor and MEMS fields. The spin-coating method is used to coat the solution onto a silicon wafer, which is then heat-treated to simply create PZT, BST and other ferroelectric thin films of uniform composition and thickness.
Surge Absorber
These products are protecting electronic equipments from abnormal voltage (surge) such as induced surge or electrostatic discharge . Usually these products are connected in parallel to the inserted in the power supply or signal lines connected with outside. This function is to absorb surge after discharging between electrodes through the product's micro-gap.
Thermistor Sensor
This type of sensor measures the temperatures of physical objects by forming electrodes at both ends of semiconductor ceramics having the physical property of changing resistance in response to temperature variations, measuring resistance values.

Metalworking Solutions Business Related Terms

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CBN
An acronym for cubic boron nitride, CBN is a hard material made from sintering boron nitride powder at high temperature and pressure.
Cemented Carbide
These alloys are made from sintered metal carbide powders. Typically, they are made by mixing cobalt as a bonding material with tungsten carbide and then baking it.
Cermet
Cermet is a heat-resistant alloy made by bonding ceramics and metal. Generally, these materials are made with titanium carbide or titanium nitride as their main component, with nickel and cobalt used for bonding.
Difficult-to-Cut Materials
These materials include inconel, hastelloy and other Ni-based alloys, as well as titanium alloys and other materials that are difficult to cut. Also included are materials such as CFRP and PCB substrates that tend to crack or break, making it difficult to machine them into predetermined shapes.
Endmills
An end mill is a type of milling tool. Milling tools are broadly categorized as face mills, which handle surface machining, and end mills, for machining grooves or sides.
Inserts
(Indexable Inserts)
Inserts are replaceable cemented carbide cutting tips. Tools with tips that cannot be replaced are called brazed tools.
Milling
In this machining process, the tool is rotated and the work material is fixed to produce the desired shape.
PCD
An acronym for polycrystalline diamond, PCD is a hard material made from sintering polycrstalline diamond powder sintered at high temperature and pressure into a hard material.
Powder Metallurgy
In this method, after metal powder is pressed into place, heat is applied to bond the powder together and produce metal materials.
Rock Tools
These tools are used in excavation, mining, tunneling, well drilling, rock crushing and perforation.
Solid Tools
With rotary tools, such as drills and end mills, either the tip of the bit is made of cemented carbide or the entire bit including the shaft is made of cemented carbide. The latter type is referred to as cemented carbide solid tools.
Steel Products
Metal tools are tools made of steel-based material to which cemented carbide inserts are attached for face milling machines, end mills with replaceable cutting tips, drills, etc.
Throuw Away Tips
This refers to indexable inserts, as used tips are discarded. This term throw-away tips is common in Japan, but nowadays the word indexable insert is standard global terminology.
Turning
In this machining process, the work material is rotated and a fixed tool is used to machine materials with a circular cross-section from either the inside or the outside.
Wear Resistant Tools
These tools include slot dies and other coating tools, rotary dies and other cutting tools, and ring rolls and other rolling tools.

Affiliated Business Related Terms

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Gold Cards
These cards are produced by using our proprietary precision rolling technology to process 99.99% pure metal into thin sheets of around 10 microns in thickness, applying a protective laminate and printing designs onto them.

old_Cement Business Related Terms

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Aggregates
Aggregate is a material such as gravel or sand that is used in making concrete. Concrete is made by mixing cement, aggregate and water. Mitsubishi Materials also sells limestone, copper slag and other materials as aggregates.
Blast Furnace Slag
Of the iron and steel slag generated during steelmaking, this slag is the result of pig iron smelting in a blast furnace. This slag contains large amounts of silica and calcia, so in addition as a cement ingredient it is used as an aggregate in blast-furnace cement.
Cement Milk, Cement Paste
These mixtures of cement and water are called milk or paste depending on the amount of water they contain. They are used for repairing cracks and other applications requiring greater fluidity than mortar.
Cement Transportation Truck
This refers to a truck used to transport cement that is not bagged.
Clinker
Clinker refers to the lumps measuring around 1cm in diameter that form as a result of rapid cooling following the mixing of cement materials and high-temperature firing. Clinker is crushed further and mixed with plaster to make cement.
Controlled Soil
This type of surplus excavation soil has been subjected to soil or radioactive contamination and therefore cannot be disposed of outdoors as is.
Cubic Yards
This refers to one yard cubed, in Imperial units. One cubic yard is equivalent to 27 cubic feet or precisely 0.764554857984 cubic meter.*
Fine Crushed Limestone
This sand, which results from finely crushing limestone, is chiefly used as an aggregate. It has strength comparable with natural sand and does not cause an alkali-aggregate reaction, which can result in fissures.
Fly-Ash
This type of ash is generated when coal is incinerated. Spherical and with fine particles, when mixed with cement fly ash increases its fluidity. Fly ash is a JIS-standard industrial product.*
Geothermal Well Cement
This type of cement is even more resistant to high temperatures than oil well cement. It is used for wells at geothermal power stations that produce hot water and steam.
Grouting Mortar
Grout is a fluid mortar injected to fill in cavities, voids, crevices and other spaces.*
Heat of Hydration
This is the heat generated during the hydration reaction between water and cement.*
High-Early-Strength Portland Cement
This cement develops strength earlier than standard cement and is used to shorten construction times.
Mixer Truck
A mixer truck is a truck for transporting ready-mixed concrete.
Mortar
Mortar is a mixture of cement, sand and water used to finish wall exteriors, joints, etc.
Oil Well Cement
This type of cement is for use deep underground in extremely harsh high-temperature, high-pressure environments such as in drilling oil and gas wells.
Ordinary Portland Cement
This refers to standard Portland cement. Regulated by JIS, this is a highly general-purpose cement that can be obtained anywhere in Japan.
Portland Blast Furnace Slag Cement
This cement contains a mixture of finely powdered blast-furnace slag. It offers excellent chemical resistance and continues to grow in strength over a long period of time.
Pre-Heater, Suspension Pre-Heater
A preheating device located at the pre-stage of a cement firing kiln, a preheater uses kiln exhaust gases to calcinate cement up to 900°C. This approach results in substantial energy savings compared with injecting materials directly into the kiln.
Pre-Stressed Concrete
Refer to PS.
PS
PS is an acronym for pre-stressed. With pre-stressed concrete, when making concrete slabs tensile stress is applied to the rebar at the factory in advance. After the external load is removed the residual tensile stress in the rebar acts as a compressive stress on the concrete. This reaction results in higher flexural strength. Pre-stressed concrete is used in bridges and beams, pilings, utility poles and other applications.
Ready-Mixed Concrete
In ready-mixed concrete, cement, sand, crushed stone and water are mixed in prescribed ratios. The hydration reaction begins immediately after mixing, generating heat. This type of concrete must be used within 90 minutes of mixing.
Service Station
Bulk cement that has been produced at a factory is hauled by tanker, railroad freight car or tanker truck to a service station, where it is temporarily stored in silos. From this facility, cement is transported to customers in bulk or packaged into sacks, according to demand.*
Short Tons
This refers to a U.S. ton, in Imperial units. One U.S. ton (short ton) equals 2,000 pounds, equivalent to approximately 907.2 kg in metric units. One U.K. ton (long ton) is equivalent to 1,016kg.
Slag Aggregates
This concrete aggregate is obtained by crushing and adjusting the particle size of the slag generated as a by-product of metal smelting. Used as a substitute for natural aggregate, for which collection is restricted, slag aggregate is an industrial product with standardized constituents and particle size.
Soil Stabilizing Cement
This material is used to improve weak ground that does not have sufficient proof strength for a building foundation. Mitsubishi Materials provides cement-based soil improvement solidifying material.
Sulfate-Resistant Portland Cement
This cement, in which the aluminate phase is as small as possible, is highly resistant to sulfates, which can be found in seawater, on ground near hot springs, or in locations that may include sewage or industrial wastewater.
Terminal
In the cement business, this refers to an import terminal, a site for relay shipment of cement.
Waste Gypsum Board
This refers to gypsum board generated as waste when buildings and other structures are dismantled.

old_Aluminum Business Related Terms

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Bottle Cans
These aluminum containers are shaped like bottles and have a screw cap for opening and closing them.
Embossed Cans
This type of can has convexities and concavities formed into the walls of the can body.
Extruded Multi-Port Tube
These flat multi-port tubes are formed by extruding aluminum billets. Tube interiors contain multiple partitioning walls, forming a number of tiny tubes. These tubes are used in heat exchangers for automobiles and other equipment.
Japan Premium
This is a premium amount charged on top of the London Metal Exchange (LME) price paid to overseas aluminum producers when Japanese companies import aluminum primary ingots. The premium basically reflects transport costs and regional supply and demand.
Materials for Heat Exchanger
These materials are used in heat exchangers. Refrigerants or heating media are passed through extruded multi-port tubes (extrusion materials) and across the fin materials (plate materials) attached to the pipe line exterior.
Recycled Ingot
These are ingots made from aluminum scrap that has been collected and melted.
Roll Margin
These are processing fees charged for rolling aluminum materials into plate, extrusions or foil.
UBC
This is an acronym for used beverage cans.

*Cite from “Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia” and part of it modified.