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• MATERIALS, PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS
• MARKETS AND TRADE IN ABRASIVE GRAINS AND ABRASIVE PRODUCTS
• MARKETS, PRODUCTION AND TRADE BY COUNTRY AND REGION
• MAJOR PRODUCERS OF ABRASIVES
• SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
• APPENDICES Currency Exchange Rates, Bibliography, Associations, Company Subsidiary Cross Reference, Company Addresses, Multilingual listing of Abrasive Terms

• Markets for bonded and coated abrasive products by product type, country/region and applications
• Markets for superabrasive products (diamond and CBN) by bond type, country/region and applications
• Growth prospects for abrasives by product type
• Market shares by company for coated and bonded abrasives and abrasive grains
• Production and consumption of natural abrasives (garnet, pumice, olivine, emery, silica etc)
• Markets for synthetic abrasive grains (aluminium oxide, silicon carbide and superabrasive grains)
• Synthetic diamond production capacity and trade (by country)
• Markets for metallic, glass and other loose abrasives for blast cleaning, shot peening and water-jet cutting
• Growth trends in end-user sectors
• Review of diamond saw and wire saw markets
• Assessment of technological developments - such as chemo-mechanical polishing (CMP), boron compounds, and aggregated diamond nanorods
• Import and export statistics for bonded and coated abrasive products
• Import and export statistics for abrasive grains
• 518 A4 pages and 340 tables giving market statistics and other data
• Profiles of multinational, US and European-based abrasives manufacturers

• Market shares of coated abrasives by producers in Western Europe
• Market shares of bonded abrasives in Western Europe
• Europe: Market forecasts for bonded, superabrasive and coated abrasives, to 2010.
• European Union: imports and exports by major country, value and quantity, 2005
• Various countries: production statistics and trends for bonded and coated abrasives
• Synthetic diamond production capacity by country, 1997-2005
• European Union: imports and exports of industrial diamonds, value and quantity, 2005
• USA: production, trade and consumption of industrial diamonds, 2001-2005
• USA: Imports and exports of diamond and CBN abrasive wheels, value and quantity, 2005
• Japan: production of diamond and CBN tools by type
• European consumption and prices of abrasive blasting media (12 types)
• European producers of steel shot/grit, production and capacity
• USA: Shipments of metallic abrasives, 2004-2005
• USA: Metallic abrasives production and consumption, 2005
• USA: Producers of metallic abrasives in 2005
• USA: Production of fused aluminium oxide, 2001-2005
• USA: Aluminium oxide grain imports, 2001-2005
• World production of non-metallurgical aluminium oxide by region, 2005
• Capacities of European fused aluminium oxide producers
• Market shares for European fused aluminium oxide abrasive grain suppliers
• European Union: imports and exports of artificial corundum, value and quantity, 2005
• Main producers of abrasive grade bauxite
• Capacities of European silicon carbide producers
• Capacities of North and South American silicon carbide producers
• World capacity of silicon carbide, 2005
• USA: Production and apparent consumption of silicon carbide, 2001-2005
• Market shares for European silicon carbide abrasive grain suppliers
• Trends in prices for aluminium oxide and silicon carbide grain
• European Union: imports and exports of silicon carbide, value and quantity, 2005
• World production of pumice, 2005
• World production of garnet, 2005
• Trends in garnet production, 2000-2005
• USA: Production of tripoli, 2000-2004
• China: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Czech Republic: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• France: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Germany: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Hungary: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• India: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Italy: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Netherlands: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Poland: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Russia: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Spain: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• UK: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• USA: Imports and exports of bonded and coated abrasives, value and quantity, 2005
• Properties of microcrystalline aluminium oxide abrasive grains
• Properties of fine aluminium oxide lapping materials
• Mechanical properties of three types of bond for diamond grinding wheels
• Cerium oxide use in the glass industry
• Typical speeds for coated abrasive belts in finishing various metals
• Comparison of abrasive grains used in blast cleaning
• Composition and properties of stainless steel shot
• Example of steel shot specification
• Properties of resin blast media
• Relative durability of blast media
• Water-jet cutting market by application area
• Quantity of abrasive media recommended for mass media techniques
• Comparison of stone cutting techniques
• Concrete drilling and sawing by country
• Worldwide semiconductor market growth by region
• Europe: diamond saw tool market by country
• Other tables include those giving import and export statistics for Austria, Belgium/Luxemburg, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey