A two-day advanced porous materials workshop, jointly organized by Micromeritics Instrument Corporation and ETH Zurich, will take place June 2 – 3, 2014 at the ETH Zurich Hönggerberg campus, located on the outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland.
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The White House announced on Tuesday, February 25nd, the establishment of the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII).
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Leading independent rubber and plastic experts Smithers Rapra will be hosting an annual seminar 'Understanding Polyurethanes, their Formulations and Applications’ on 24th, 25th and 26th June 2...
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Empower Materials recently completed a trial to produce QPAC ® 100 powder.
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Aehr Test Systems, a leading supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, today announced it has received over $1.5 million in follow-on orders for WaferPak full-wafer contactors for its FOX-1 and FOX-15 wafer-level burn-in and test systems.
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Optomec, Inc., a global leader in 3D Printing for production applications, announced today that the company was awarded a new U.S. patent, titled Miniature Aerosol Jet and Aerosol Jet Array, patent # 8,640,975. The patent provides protection for a miniaturized Aerosol Jet print head geometry that is significantly smaller, lighter weight and lower cost than preceding generations.
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SKF has started to deliver bonded piston seals to Geely Automobile. The business agreements, worth over SEK 100 million, continue for around five years and call for SKF to deliver seals to equip Geely’s automatic transmission (6AT) for their car models GC6, Emgrande EC8 and their first SUV Gleagle GX7.
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Researchers from the University of Surrey worked together with scientists from Philips to further develop the 'Source-Gated-Transistor' (SGT) - a simple circuit component invented jointly by the teams.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is the lead institution on a $7.4 million, multi-university award from the U.S. Army that will support the development of new metallurgical methods and new lightweight alloys that will help the military build more effective and durable vehicles and systems. The technologies and processes developed as part of the research will also have applications in the aircraft, automotive, and electronics industries.
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MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex.
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Utilities looking for greater flexibility, reliability and single-failure tolerance for critical transmission lines now have an affordable carbon-fiber option in the new Southwire C7™ Overhead Conductor. The multi-stranded composite core using advanced polymers, resins and thermoplastics from Celanese delivers increased performance and a service life in excess of 40 years.
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MedShape, Inc., today announced the company received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Morphix® SP Suture Anchor. The device features the company's new Scoria™ technology, a polyetheretherketone (PEEK) material manufactured with interconnected micrometer scale surface porosity and based on Zeniva® PEEK resin from Solvay Specialty Polymers.
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Making your own stuff with a 3D printer is vastly cheaper than what you’d pay for manufactured goods, even factoring in the cost of buying the plastic filament.
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Armco Metals Holdings, Inc. ("Armco Metals Holdings"), a U.S. based company that engages in the import, sale, and distribution of metal ore and non-ferrous metals in the People's Republic of China, recycles scrap metals used by steel mills in the production of recycled steel and provides sourcing and pricing services for various metals to its network of customers, today announced that its Armco (Lianyungang) Renewable Metals, Inc. subsidiary ("Renewable Metals") has entered into a steel scrap supply agreement with Mitsui & Co. (Shanghai) Ltd. ("Mitsui Shanghai"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., ("Mitsui & Co.") whose business covers energy, machinery, chemicals, food, textile, logistics, finance, and more on a global scale.
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Sygnature Discovery (Nottingham, UK) has been using an Asynt DrySyn SnowStorm system to perform low temperature reactions which have traditionally been difficult to undertake reproducibly on a small to medium scale.
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