United Nations Industrial Development Organization: Recent submissions

  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Wherever oil-changes are made on cars, trucks or other vehicles, that also means the exchange of used filters. Exchanges and maintenance works cause additional oily waste materials, such as oil cans, cleaning rags and ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Sodium chloride NaCI, generally known as 'common salt' or as 'salt' for short, has had a long history as a seasoning, preserving agent and base material for a great variety of products. The compound occurs abundantly ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    A decisive factor for the development of any country is the availability of building materials, such as cement, chippings, ballast, asphalt etc. Without these materials no housing project can be realized nor can the ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    No matter what kind of building activity is planned, be it houses, factories, roads, bridges, silos or just walls - gravel and sandworks are needed everywhere. In most cases desposits of raw gravel and sand contain ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Salt has always been indispensable for human and animal consumption, gradually developing into one of the most important raw materials of the inorganic-chemical industry. Nowadays the figures of salt consumption can ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Fish contains a ligh level of proteins, minerals and vitamins and as such is an ideal contribution to the balanced diet of man. Considering the worldwide tendency to deplete the oceans resources the planned and ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Considering the specific value of the various components that make up the human food chain, the egg must certainly be credited with being one of the most important and versatile foodstuffs in itself. Hardly any other ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Automobiles, especially heavy-duty, masstransport oriented and public buses remain the important means of transport media in developing countries. In order to maintain the high performance of the automobiles, it is ...
  • Pencils 
    Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Pencils play an important role in nearly everybody's daily life. The main factors that influence the demand for pencils, are the degree of literacy attained, number of schools, colleges, the period of schooling, ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Transfusion sets are used for the transfer of blood, whereas infusion sets are used for administering infusion solutions. Generally, the design of a transfusion set differs from that of an infusion set only in two minor ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Disposable syringes made of plastic material have been successfully used in medical and pharmaceutical practice for many years. The constantly increasing use of this type of syringe, indicates its importance, which is ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    'Regenerative' is the denomination for energysources coming from natural energy-flows. These exist without any human help and, in human minds, can be classified as 'everlasting'. Usually they are found in a considerably ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    With the ever-increasing use of cars, trucks and buses all over the world the production of spare and wear parts has become more and more important. That especially applies to automotive filter products. The production ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Nowadays refrigerators are an indispensable part of any modern kitchen. It was the invention of refrigerators which enabled households to store food efficiently, or in other words: keep perishable foodstuff fresh and ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    For ages tools have been manufactured by hand. This process, however, is labour-intensive, time-consuming and expensive. A uniform quality standard can hardly be achieved. The demand for tools is steadily increasing ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Man can do without sophisticated machinery, but agriculture and food production are unthinkable without the use of simple tools, tools that are easy to make and easy to use. No farming can be done without shovels and ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    In tropical and suptropical countries the matchete is one of the indispensable tools. Its uses in agriculture are manifold. Owing to the quality of their parts (high-carbon tool steel, wooden handles, double fixture with ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Lime is one of the most important raw materials. Nowadays its products are used everywhere and in all possible forms - for instance lime gravel for road construction and cement block production and burnt lime for ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    For thousands of years, building material has been re-used: in ancient Egypt material was taken from the pyramids to build new houses and the same happened in Rome where stones from the colosseum were used for other ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Electricity programmes enjoy top priority in many developing countries. Apart from the actual power generating, the provision of transmission lines and poles is the cornerpillar of the succesful realization of such a ...

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