Bibliographic record
Abstract
First-quarter sales and revenues are up in several areas, but demand for ceramic proppants remains poor. Industrial minerals giant Imerys has reported first-quarter sales supported by rising demand in the refractories, metallurgy and filtration sectors, although the ceramic proppant and roofing businesses remain subdued. In a financial statement published on Friday April 27, Imerys reported revenues up by 8.5% year-on-year to €1.2 billion ($1.43 billion) in the first quarter of 2018, taking account of negative currency effects and gains from the acquisitions of a number of businesses. Like-for-like sales in the quarter were up by 4.2%. Like-for-like revenues in the high resistance minerals division, which includes refractories, rose by 10% year-on-year in the first quarter, to €305.2 million. Imerys also reported growth in its monolithic refractories business, with demand “in most of the European and Asian industrial markets.” Prices for most refractory minerals have increased over the past year. Industrial Minerals on May 3 reported the price for alumina, fused brown, min 95% Al2O3, refractory sized (0-6mm), fob China, at $800-820 per tonne. This compared with $550-600 per tonne a year earlier.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".