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Libra Industries Takes Its SPI Speed and Accuracy to the Next Level

Libra Industries, a privately held electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, today announced that is has completed the installation of its new Omron CDK VP5200-V Solder Paste Inspection system.

14 Sep 2016

ELIX Polymers Expands Styrenic-polymers Business into North America

ELIX Polymers, one of the world's top suppliers of high-performance acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polycarbonate/ABS (ABS/PC) polymers used in numerous industries, is expanding its business and physical presence into North America.

14 Sep 2016

SENAI Outfits New Tribology Lab with Bruker UMT TriboLab Systems

Brazil’s national service for industrial training invests in six Bruker tribometers.

From Bruker 14 Sep 2016

Researchers Explain Metal to Insulator Transition at Nanoscale

A team of physicists have been successful for the first time in directly visualizing on small scales how a material suddenly alters from conducting state to insulating state at low temperatures.

13 Sep 2016

Ingeteam Launches Ground-breaking Fixed-to-variable Speed Wind Power Conversion System

Ingeteam, the global supplier of electrical conversion equipment, announced today the launch of its new solution dubbed INGECON WIND FIX2VAR SPEED, a ground-breaking autonomous power conversion system that increases the Annual Energy Production (AEP), lifetime and grid-performance of fixed-speed wind turbines by enabling them to transform to variable-speed machines to best match wind conditions.

13 Sep 2016

Novel Method for Obtaining Detailed 3D Images of Insides of Lithium Batteries

A team of chemists have developed a technique to yield highly comprehensive, 3D images of the inner sides of batteries. The method is based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and provides an improved approach to observe the condition of these power sources in real time.

13 Sep 2016

Thorlabs Releases a New Line of High Precision Manual Translation Stages

Thorlabs has announced the release of a new line of XR-Series cross roller bearing, aluminum-bodied translation stages.

13 Sep 2016

New PUNA Hexapod: Simple and Affordable Precision for All

SYMETRIE launches a new hexapod named PUNA to meet precision positioning applications in research or industry with optimized budgets.

13 Sep 2016

Pittcon Announces 40+ New Classes for Laboratory Professionals in 2017 Short Course Program

The Pittcon Short Course Committee is pleased to announce the 2017 Short Course program which runs from March 4 – 9

From Pittcon 13 Sep 2016

H.C. Starck Products for Glass Production Featured at Glasstec 2016

H.C. Starck’s robust portfolio of products for the glass melting industry will be on display at Glasstec 2016 in Dusseldorf, Germany, September 20-23. H.C. Starck’s expertise in the production and processin...

From HC Starck Tungsten GmbH 13 Sep 2016

Ambrell® Introduces the World’s First Induction Heating Cobot

Using cobot technology, Ambrell has developed an innovative induction heating solution designed to maximize manufacturing throughput.

From Ambrell Induction Heating Solutions 13 Sep 2016

New Scientific Method to Analyse Detergent Efficiency Published in Tenside Surfactants Detergents Journal

Biolin Scientific announce today that study results for a new scientific method to evaluate and rank the cleaning ability of new detergent formulations have been published in the journal Tenside Surfactants Detergents (T...

From Biolin Scientific 13 Sep 2016

MIT and French Researchers Partner to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Complex Materials

MIT President L. Rafael Reif joined a high-level delegation of French officials at MIT on Friday to sign an agreement extending the research partnership behind MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Environment (MSE2), an international joint unit, or UMI (reflecting the French term "unité mixte internationale"), that has produced groundbreaking research into such complex materials as concrete and shale rocks.

13 Sep 2016

Narrowing Down Active Form of Iron-Based Catalyst Can Open New Possibilities for Making More-Active Fuel Cells

Fuel cells have long held promise as power sources, but low efficiency has created obstacles to realizing that promise.

13 Sep 2016

Scientists Find Way to Use Liquid Crystal Technique to Manipulate Shape of Synthetic Cell Membranes

Liquid crystals are strange substances—they can flow like a liquid, but have the orderly molecular structure of a crystalline solid. And that internal structure can be changed by small cues from outside.

13 Sep 2016