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PPG Becomes Only Producer of Low-Iron Solar Glass in West Coast

PPG Becomes Only Producer of Low-Iron Solar Glass in West Coast

The flat glass business of PPG Industries has declared the expansion of its production capacity at the Fresno plant in California in order to produce SOLARPHIRE PV glass. This is an ultra-low iron glass that is utilized in manufacturing parts for the solar industry. [More]
Siemens Receives Contract from Diaco to Modernize Two Colombian Bar Mills

Siemens Receives Contract from Diaco to Modernize Two Colombian Bar Mills

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has secured a contract from Diaco, the main steel manufacturer in Colombia, to modernize two bar mills at its Tocancipá and Tuta sites. [More]
Arkema Acquires Casda Biomaterials and Hipro Polymers

Arkema Acquires Casda Biomaterials and Hipro Polymers

Arkema has acquired Casda Biomaterials, a key producer of sebacic acid in the world, and Hipro Polymers, a specialty biosourced polyamides 10.10 producer. [More]

AMI to Conduct Polymer Sourcing 2012 Conference in Hamburg

AMI has reported that the Polymer Sourcing 2012 conference will take place from May 14 to16, 2012, in Hamburg. This will be AMI forum’s eight edition that was begun especially for companies, which were involved in each phase of the polymer supply chain in Europe. [More]
DuPont Surlyn Film Used in Protective Packaging Saves Energy

DuPont Surlyn Film Used in Protective Packaging Saves Energy

Miele, a famous appliance manufacturer, is the first to use the benefits of the waste-saving and energy of a film technology and new process that were developed jointly with DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (DuPont), Zappe Verpackungsmaschinen, a main producer of machinery, and jura-plast, the film producer. [More]
Versatile Packagers Launches Eco-Friendly Blister Packaging Solutions

Versatile Packagers Launches Eco-Friendly Blister Packaging Solutions

Versatile Packagers, a contract packaging company based in Florida, has announced the demonstration of industry leadership by means of sustainability efforts in packaging. In addition to a new machine, the company has released blister packaging solutions to the customers. [More]
Comprehensive Book Discusses Properties and Applications of Nanomaterials

Comprehensive Book Discusses Properties and Applications of Nanomaterials

Research and Markets now offers a new book titled ‘Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials: Science & Applications’ published by John Wiley and Sons. [More]
Novel Method Capable of Measuring Photocurrent Generation in Graphene

Novel Method Capable of Measuring Photocurrent Generation in Graphene

A research team comprising Leonhard Prechtel and Leonhard Prechtel from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen’s Walter Schottky Institut has devised a method to improve the time resolution down to the picosecond range for measuring photocurrent in graphene, which in turn helped in detecting pulses in a few picoseconds. [More]
Borouge’s Innovative Plastics Solutions to be Featured at Indian Conference

Borouge’s Innovative Plastics Solutions to be Featured at Indian Conference

At PlastIndia 2012 conference, Borouge will display its innovative plastics solutions and demonstrate its strong commitment towards a greener society. [More]
Samsung Total Petrochemicals Selects LyondellBasell’s Polyolefin Process Technology

Samsung Total Petrochemicals Selects LyondellBasell’s Polyolefin Process Technology

LyondellBasell, a licensor of polyethylene and polypropylene technologies, has licensed its Lupotech T polyolefin process technology to Samsung Total Petrochemicals. The technology will be deployed in a new plant in Daesan, South Korea. [More]
International Scientists Advance Ultrafast Magnetic Phenomena

International Scientists Advance Ultrafast Magnetic Phenomena

A major milestone has been achieved by an international consortium, including scientists from Ukraine, Ukraine and The Netherlands, in understanding ultrafast magnetic phenomena. [More]
Secret Behind the Strength of Spider Webs

Secret Behind the Strength of Spider Webs

Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed that the resilience of spider webs depends not only on the strength of the spider silk but also on its stretchiness and web structure. [More]
Exova Tests Chevron's Pipelines

Exova Tests Chevron's Pipelines

Exova has concluded work on a major Immersion Ultrasonic Testing (IUT) project for oil major, Chevron.
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Exova, Leading at the Middle East Corrosion Conference and Exhibition

Exova, Leading at the Middle East Corrosion Conference and Exhibition

One of the world’s leading authorities on corrosion prevention, Dr Chris Fowler of Exova, will be leading the upcoming 14th Middle East Corrosion Conference and Exhibition in the Kingdom of Bahrain. [More]
Scientific Concierge Services Launched by CRAIC Technologies

Scientific Concierge Services Launched by CRAIC Technologies

CRAIC Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR micro-analysis solutions, has set a new standard for customer care in the scientific instrument world with the introduction of its Scientific Concierge Service. [More]
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