Chinese Foundry Assn. adjusts casting shipment figures. (Around the World).The Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. Foundry A semiconductor manufacturer that makes chips for third parties. It may be a large chip maker that sells its excess manufacturing capacity or one that makes chips exclusively for other companies. Assn., Beijing Beijing (bā-jĭng) or Peking (pē-kĭng, pā–), city (1994 est. urban pop. 6,093,300; 1994 est. total pop. 7,240,700), capital of the People's Republic of China. It is in central Hebei prov. , China, announced that it under-reported its domestic casting production in MODERN CASTING's "35th Census of World Casting Production--2000," which was published in the December 2001 issue. The underestimate was made in gray iron casting production. The correct figure is 8,639,966 metric tons--a difference of 3 million tons from the Chinese Foundry Assn.'s initial report. This puts the nation's total tonnage TONNAGE, mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story's L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonnage of any ship or vessel, the surveyor, &c. at 13,954,629 metric tons, which makes China the world's leader in casting production in 2000. |
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