Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing close-to-final-shape moldings from pressing compositions, in which reinforcing fibers, fiber bundles, fiber fabrics, fiber mats and/or random fiber agglomerates based on metal, glass, carbon, nitrogen, silicon and/or boron, one or more binders and, if desired, one or more additives or fillers are mixed to give a pressing composition and pressed in a pressing mold under the action of pressure to give a molding, where a curable carbonizable polymer is used as binder. The invention provides for a cold-curing binder to be used and the curing reaction to be initiated by addition of a catalyst, with pressure only being applied after the curing reaction has commenced.

Abstract: An alloy for a gray cast iron plate for casting blanks of brake disks has composition of 3.65 to 3.95%, preferably approximately 3.85% carbon; 0.20 to 0.40%, preferably approximately 0.30% chromium; 1.80 to 2.20% silicon; 0.60 to 0.80% manganese; 0.30 to 0.50% copper; 0.20 to 0.80%, preferably approximately 0.38 to 0.45% niobium, and the remainder of iron, traces of other alloy metals and melting-caused impurities, such as phosphorus or sulfur, in which case other casting alloy metals, such as vanadium, nickel, tin, molybdenum, antimony, and the like may also be contained each with a content of from 0.01 to 0.06% by weight. The tensile strength, wear resistance and heat cracking resistance of the brake disks cast from such an alloy provide a very high service life of the brake disks which permits their use in utility vehicles.

Abstract: Benzodiazepine derivatives which have tranquillizing activity, especially 1,4-benzodiazepine derivatives, can lower the serum prolactin concentration. They can reduce, dosage-dependently, the increase in the serum prolactin concentration induced by the administration of neuroleptics, which can lead to undesirable side-effects, when about 0.01 to 100 parts by weight of benzodiazepine derivatives are administered per part by weight of neuroleptic, it being immaterial whether the benzodiazepine derivative is administered before or after the neuroleptic or simultaneously therewith. The simultaneous administration of the active substances can be carried out as an ad hoc combination or in the form of a pharmaceutical combination.