Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that it has opened a second office in the USA, near Sacramento, California. This office will provide more local support to West Coast customers, and following the opening of Markes’ Cincinnati office in 2012, reflects the extent to which the company’s business is growing within the USA.
The High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult, which stimulates and supports the commercial application of new technologies through the development of innovative manufacturing processes, has appointed Dr Phillip Cartwright as Chief Technology Officer.
A group of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in The Netherlands has observed a dynamic Mott transition in a superconductor.
By Beth Ellison
14 Sep 2015
A research initiative led by scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reveals the motion of individual atoms at a speed of trillionths of a second, creating wrinkles on a material that is three atoms thick.
By Beth Ellison
14 Sep 2015
Michelman will be presenting a variety of its flagship print receptive and functional coating technologies at the 4th Specialty Films & Flexible Packaging Conference being held September 15-16 in Mumbai, India. Mr. Bill Magee, Group Director of Michelman’s Printing & Packaging division will be doing a presentation at the show entitled “Breakthrough Technology - Water-Based Coatings – A Sustainable Alternative.”
PI miCos presents the new L-511 precision linear stage series. The stages achieve unidirectional repeatability up to 0.1 µm and minimum incremental motion of up to 0.02 µm.
ZEISS Atlas 5 is a powerful hardware and software package that extends the capacity of ZEISS scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and focused ion beam SEMs (FIB-SEM). ZEISS Atlas 5 streamlines automatic image acquisition and lets users benefit from its efficient navigation and correlation of images from any source including light and X-ray microscopes.
Tribopolymer specialist igus® now offers 16 iglidur® bearing materials, each one in 113 different standard DIN ISO 3547 dimensions up to diameters of 50 mm. Totalling over 1,300 standard parts, igus® covers all conceivable demands on plain bearings that can be delivered from stock, within 24 hours, and with no minimum order quantities.
Hexcel is exhibiting at Composites Europe in Stuttgart, Germany (September 22-24) to promote composite materials that offer performance and processing benefits to customers in Automotive, Wind Energy and Recreation markets.
Foster Corporation, a leader in custom polymers for medical devices, now offers custom colored medical polymers in quantities as low as 25 pounds (11 kgs) within a two week lead time to support market demand for rapid prototype development. These include formulations using pigments compliant with FDA requirements for use in applications that contact the human body for up to 30 days.
Cooling systems play a vital role in preserving the overall engine heat balance and in protecting engine components against corrosion and other problems. Machinery and Lubrication magazine has estimated that 60% of engine downtime in the commercial sector is cooling system related. Understanding the condition of the coolant is critical in maintaining the cooling system operation.
The Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) and automotive.saarland are presenting decorative, glass-like coatings for corrosion and wear protection of automotive parts at the IAA International Motor Show 2015.
By Beth Ellison
10 Sep 2015
Researchers from the Northwestern University, Tsinghua University and the University of Illinois have developed a method that uses cuts in a material to assemble complex 3D nano- and microstructures from materials like silicon.
By Beth Ellison
10 Sep 2015
Nordson ASYMTEK, a Nordson company, a global leader in dispensing, jetting, and coating equipment and technologies, announces that it has been selected as a finalist for the San Diego Business Journal 2015 Manufacturing Award.
Strem Chemicals, Inc., a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for research and development, is pleased to announce the addition of Rh2(S-PTTL)4 (Strem catalog 45-2105) to its portfolio of Dirhodium Catalysts.