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Breakthrough Tires get Kevlar to Improve Performance

Dunlop and Goodyear recently launched breakthrough tires with DuPont Kevlar to improve sidewall strength shock absorbance and enhance the total driving experience.

19 Jul 2008

World's Largest Aluminum Company Produces Environmentally Friendly Buses for 2008 Olympics

Alcoa and Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Company today introduced two new environmentally-friendly bus prototypes that will be displayed and road tested during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

19 Jul 2008

Designers of Smart Materials Would do Well to Take a Lead from Nature

Nature, in the simple form of a tree canopy, appears to provide keen insights into the best way to design complex systems to move substances from one place to another, an essential ingredient in the development of novel "smart" materials.

19 Jul 2008

Materials May Soon be Able to Stop a Crack and Self-Heal

Materials that can stop a crack and then self-heal have been brought a step closer to reality thanks to a new project launched by the University of Bristol and Imperial College London. The Crack Arrest and Self-Heali...

19 Jul 2008

Textron to Build Life Boats for Mexican Navy

Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, has been retained to manufacture six 47-foot Motor Life Boats for the Mexican Navy, a sale valued at approximat...

19 Jul 2008

New Technique Shows How Cracks Grow in Stainless Steels

A team of researchers from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom),
the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon (France) and the ESRF
has revealed how a growing crack interacts with the 3D crystal structure of
stainless steel.

19 Jul 2008

Wacker to Discontinue Production of Polymer Binder Range

Wacker Chemie AG will discontinue the production of its PIOLOFORM® polymer binders effective September 30, 2008. The Munich-based chemical group announced this decision today, citing limited expectations for polyviny...

19 Jul 2008

German Football Association to Construct 100 Mini Soccer Fields with Polyurethane Foam Coated Fences

With the European Soccer Championship just recently over, young soccer fans more than ever dream of scoring dramatic goals and becoming national favorites, just like Germany’s Podolski, Schweinsteiger and Ballack. ...

19 Jul 2008

Automated Powder Dispensing System Improves Productivity in Laboratories

Available from Symyx Technologies, Inc. - the Powdernium® workstation is an automated powder dispensing system that provides unmatched levels of performance, significantly increasing productivity and saving valuable sample preparation time.

19 Jul 2008

Improving Machine Tool Accuracy without Design Changes

Most CNC machine tool manufacturers invest heavily in machine developments that improve accuracy but by using the latest calibration systems at its factory in Istanbul, Turkey, leading manufacturer Spinner has improved specified machine accuracies without the need to change designs.

From Renishaw plc - Spectroscopy 19 Jul 2008

Oxford Investment Opportunity Network Provide £450,000 Funding for Mould Tooling Innovators

As part of a £450,000 funding round, members of Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION) have provided £140,000 of new cash to mould tooling technology innovators, Surface Generation. This investment has ...

19 Jul 2008

Anter Increase Their Range of Thermal Testing Services with Five New Instruments

Modern applications drive the materials technologist to develop materials capable of ever increasing performance at extended temperature ranges. This in turn pushes the test and measurement engineer to satisfy the demanding test requirements of the technologist in order to properly evaluate and develop these new materials.

19 Jul 2008