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AOL’s This Built America Features Titanium Powder Manufacturer, Puris

AOL’s This Built America editorial series is traveling the country to spotlight companies in each state for their role in re-imagining and rebuilding American manufacturing, and Puris, LLC debuts this week, representing the state of West Virginia. The titanium powder producer launched in early 2014 to meet growing demand for high-purity titanium powder in additive manufacturing, including 3D printing.

31 Dec 2014

Water Treatment Chemicals Market Projected to Grow at 5.8% CAGR to Reach $33,289 Million by 2019

ReportsnReports.com adds "Water Treatment Chemicals Market By Type and Application Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019", "World Water Treatment Chemicals to 2017" and "Water Treatment Chemicals Markets in China" research reports to its store.

31 Dec 2014

Dunn Paper Acquires Clearwater Paper’s Specialty Products Business

Wingate Partners, a Dallas-based investment firm, announced today that its portfolio company, Dunn Paper Inc., has acquired the specialty products business from Clearwater Paper Corporation.

31 Dec 2014

Emery Oleochemicals Reaches Mechanical Completion Stage in Construction of Cincinnati Bio-Polyol Plant

Emery Oleochemicals, a world leader in natural-based chemicals announced that construction activities of its new technologically advanced bio-polyol plant located in Cincinnati, Ohio has reached mechanical completion. The plant will further strengthen Emery Oleochemicals' ability to provide wide range of Eco-Friendly Polyoyls products and customer service.

31 Dec 2014

3D Systems Advances Food 3D Printing in Partnership with The Culinary Institute of America

3D Systems announced today a partnership with The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) to provide faculty and students the opportunity to explore the intersection of 3D printed food and artisan culinary methods. Together, 3DS and the CIA plan to develop a series of educational collaborations and commence a beta program for the ChefJetTM Pro culinary 3D printer.

From 3D Systems 31 Dec 2014

Avnet and Micron Celebrate 30th Anniversary

1985 was a pivotal year for the memory market in the Americas. Seven of the nation’s leading semiconductor makers exited the DRAM business due to a drastic decline in prices for memory, leaving just a handful of competitors, including the relatively young Micron Technology, Inc..

31 Dec 2014

Global Lightweight Materials Market Forecast to Grow at 8.5% CAGR

The lightweight materials market is expected to grow exponentially in the next five years. Different governments across the world have been strengthening regulations for reduction of vehicular pollution. Lightweighting of vehicles enhances fuel efficiency. Hence, the lightweight materials market is set to witness high growth.

31 Dec 2014

Nitric Oxide Gas Stably Gift-Wrapped Within Metal-Organic Frameworks

A group of scientists led by researchers at the Université de Versailles' Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to stably gift-wrap a chemical gas known as nitric oxide within metal-organic frameworks. Such an encapsulated chemical may allow doctors to administer nitric oxide in a more highly controlled way to patients, suggesting new approaches for treating dangerous infections and heart conditions with the biologically-active substance.

31 Dec 2014

Electrostatic Repulsion Dominates Properties of New Hydrogel

In a world-first achievement published in Nature, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the National Institute of Material Science and the University of Tokyo, have developed a new hydrogel whose properties are dominated by electrostatic repulsion, rather than attractive interactions.

31 Dec 2014

Pure Grown Diamonds Unveils Largest, Laboratory-Cultivated Brilliant White Diamond

Pure Grown Diamonds announces a scientific breakthrough with the unveiling of the first-ever, world's largest, laboratory-cultivated brilliant white diamonds that are indistinguishable from mined diamonds, even under a microscope, yet cost 30 to 40 percent less – just in time for New Year’s Eve when millions of Americans get engaged.

31 Dec 2014

New Report Analyzes Key Players in Glass Fibre Composites Market

The glass fibre composites market will experience growth in the near future across many sectors and industry applications. The glass fibre composites industry is a highly fragmented competitive sector resulting in many companies competing for market share.

30 Dec 2014

MagneGas Inks MOU with Afnetco Recycling of South Africa

MagneGas Corporation, a technology company that counts among its inventions a patented process that converts liquid waste into a hydrogen-based fuel, announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, "MOU" for an equipment purchase and distribution agreement with Afnetco Recycling of South Africa.

30 Dec 2014