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Kistler Instruments and Toolex Bring Hi Tech to Hand Presses

Many thousands of hand presses are used in industry for a wide range of operations from assembly, bending and crimping to joining, press-fit, punching, and riveting where a relatively small number of products are being manufactured. Generally, hand pressing has been limited to operations where high precision is not needed. This is about to change.

From Kistler Instrumente AG 6 Jan 2015

Researchers Solve Mysterious Stability of Graphene Oxide Films Using Basic Chemistry

A research team led by Northwestern University has solved the solubility mystery of graphene oxide (GO) films using basic inorganic chemistry.

6 Jan 2015

Automobile Body Uses Cost-Effective Botanical Natural Fibers

Researchers at the Application Center for Wood Fiber Research HOFZET of the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, the Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI in Braunschweig have discovered a new research approach that has enabled the creation of lightweight and cost-efficient vehicle body for automobiles.

By Stuart Milne 6 Jan 2015

Hosokawa Micron Engineers Break Record With Eleven Metre Wide Downflow Booth

Engineers at Hosokawa Micron Ltd have recently completed manufacture of the widest Downflow Booth they have made, to date. Spanning 11m wide, the Downflow Booth was designed and manufactured using Hosokawa Micron’s modular Downflow Booth concept which delivers construction affordability alongside almost limitless size capability.

From Hosokawa Micron Ltd 6 Jan 2015

New Green Technique Recycles All Plastics without Using Water

Conventional plastic recycling techniques use large quantities water. In order to avoid this waste, Marco Adame founder of Ak Inovex, has recently developed a new green technology which does not require the use of liquids.

By Alexander Chilton 5 Jan 2015

Baseline® Raises the Bar in Photoionization Detection Technology: Introducing the piD-TECH® eVx

Baseline® a MOCON® company introduces the piD-TECH® eVx, a new line of OEM Photoionization Detectors.

From AMETEK MOCON 5 Jan 2015

TenCate Advanced Composites Signs Long Term Supply Agreement with Kestrel Aircraft for New All Composite Turboprop Kestrel K-350

TenCate Advanced Composites North America, a leading global composite materials company for space and aerospace applications, have signed a long term composite materials supply agreement with Kestrel Aircraft, headquartered in Superior (Wisconsin), United States of America.

From Toray Advanced Composites 5 Jan 2015

TenCate Cetex® Thermoplastic Composites Featured on Airbus A350 XWB

TenCate Advanced Composites, a leading global composite materials company for aerospace applications, is a key supplier of thermoplastic composite materials for the Airbus A350 XWB, which completed a significant milestone event today with the first commercial delivery to Qatar Airways.

From Toray Advanced Composites 5 Jan 2015

FLEX™ from CRAIC Technologies: a Flexible UV-visible-NIR Microspectrophotometer Concept

CRAIC Technologies, the worlds leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions, is proud to introduce the FLEX™ UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometer concept.

From CRAIC Technologies 5 Jan 2015

Growth, Trends and Forecast Report on Global Photoresists and Photoresist Ancillaries Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Photoresists and Photoresist Ancillaries Market for Semiconductors & Integrated Circuits, Printed Circuit Boards and Other Applications - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020" report to their offering.

2 Jan 2015

Taiwan Based Capella Microsystems Acquired by Vishay Intertechnology

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components, today acquired all of the remaining outstanding shares of Taiwan based Capella Microsystems Inc. (GreTai Securities Market: 3582) for approximately NT$668.2 million or US$21.0 million, pursuant to the terms of its previously announced merger agreement with Capella. Capella is a fabless IC design company specializing in optoelectronic products.

2 Jan 2015

U.S. Packaging Barrier Resin Market Expected to Grow to About 9.8 Billion Pounds in 2019

This BCC Research report looks at the packaging industry, that of plastic barrier packaging, and the plastic resins that supply these barriers. Forecasts included through 2019.

2 Jan 2015

VSE Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Four Business Units from Killick Aerospace Group

VSE Corporation announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire four business units from Killick Aerospace Group, consisting of Prime Turbines (including both U.S. and Germany-based operations), CT Aerospace, Kansas Aviation and Air Parts & Supply Co. The companies to be acquired specialize in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services and parts supply for corporate and regional jet aircraft engines and engine accessories.

2 Jan 2015

Catalyst Achieves Important Milestone in Acquisition of Biron and Rumford Paper Mills

Catalyst Paper Corporation announced today that an important milestone has been achieved in the previously announced acquisition by Catalyst of the Biron paper mill in Wisconsin and the Rumford pulp and paper mill in Maine, USA from NewPage Corporation, NewPage Wisconsin System Inc. and Rumford Paper Company.

2 Jan 2015

Weatherford Closes Sale of Engineered Chemistry and Integrity Drilling Fluids Businesses

Weatherford International plc closed the previously announced sale of the Company's engineered chemistry and Integrity drilling fluids businesses to an affiliate of The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, for a purchase price of $750 million, subject to a customary post-closing working capital adjustment.

2 Jan 2015

Materials Science News

Kistler Instruments and Toolex Bring Hi Tech to Hand Presses

Researchers Solve Mysterious Stability of Graphene Oxide Films Using Basic Chemistry

Automobile Body Uses Cost-Effective Botanical Natural Fibers

Hosokawa Micron Engineers Break Record With Eleven Metre Wide Downflow Booth

New Green Technique Recycles All Plastics without Using Water

Baseline® Raises the Bar in Photoionization Detection Technology: Introducing the piD-TECH® eVx

TenCate Advanced Composites Signs Long Term Supply Agreement with Kestrel Aircraft for New All Composite Turboprop Kestrel K-350

TenCate Cetex® Thermoplastic Composites Featured on Airbus A350 XWB

FLEX™ from CRAIC Technologies: a Flexible UV-visible-NIR Microspectrophotometer Concept

Growth, Trends and Forecast Report on Global Photoresists and Photoresist Ancillaries Market

Taiwan Based Capella Microsystems Acquired by Vishay Intertechnology

U.S. Packaging Barrier Resin Market Expected to Grow to About 9.8 Billion Pounds in 2019

VSE Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Four Business Units from Killick Aerospace Group

Catalyst Achieves Important Milestone in Acquisition of Biron and Rumford Paper Mills

Weatherford Closes Sale of Engineered Chemistry and Integrity Drilling Fluids Businesses

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