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Empower Materials Inc. produces first small scale quantities of QPAC 100 Polypropylene/ Polycyclohexene Carbonate Powder for Pore Former Applications

Empower Materials recently completed a trial to produce QPAC ® 100 powder.

From Empower Materials 7 Mar 2014

Aehr Test Systems Receives Follow-On Orders for FOX WaferPak Full-Wafer Contactors

Aehr Test Systems, a leading supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, today announced it has received over $1.5 million in follow-on orders for WaferPak full-wafer contactors for its FOX-1 and FOX-15 wafer-level burn-in and test systems.

7 Mar 2014

Optomec Awarded New US Patent on Miniaturized Aerosol Jet Print Head Technology

Optomec, Inc., a global leader in 3D Printing for production applications, announced today that the company was awarded a new U.S. patent, titled Miniature Aerosol Jet and Aerosol Jet Array, patent # 8,640,975. The patent provides protection for a miniaturized Aerosol Jet print head geometry that is significantly smaller, lighter weight and lower cost than preceding generations.

7 Mar 2014

Geely Automobile Procures SKF’s Bonded Piston Seals

SKF has started to deliver bonded piston seals to Geely Automobile. The business agreements, worth over SEK 100 million, continue for around five years and call for SKF to deliver seals to equip Geely’s automatic transmission (6AT) for their car models GC6, Emgrande EC8 and their first SUV Gleagle GX7.

From SKF (U.K.) Limited 7 Mar 2014

WPI Leads New Multi-University Project to Develop Better Alloys for Military Vehicles

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is the lead institution on a $7.4 million, multi-university award from the U.S. Army that will support the development of new metallurgical methods and new lightweight alloys that will help the military build more effective and durable vehicles and systems. The technologies and processes developed as part of the research will also have applications in the aircraft, automotive, and electronics industries.

7 Mar 2014

New Way to Trap and Transform Carbon Dioxide into Useful Organic Compounds

MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex.

By Anne Trafton 7 Mar 2014

Use of High-Performance Thermoplastics Provides Long Life to Southwire C7 Overhead Conductor

Utilities looking for greater flexibility, reliability and single-failure tolerance for critical transmission lines now have an affordable carbon-fiber option in the new Southwire C7™ Overhead Conductor. The multi-stranded composite core using advanced polymers, resins and thermoplastics from Celanese delivers increased performance and a service life in excess of 40 years.

7 Mar 2014

MedShape Receives FDA Clearance for New Porous PEEK Suture Anchor

MedShape, Inc., today announced the company received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Morphix® SP Suture Anchor. The device features the company's new Scoria™ technology, a polyetheretherketone (PEEK) material manufactured with interconnected micrometer scale surface porosity and based on Zeniva® PEEK resin from Solvay Specialty Polymers.

7 Mar 2014

New Recycling Technology Turns Waste Plastic into 3D Printer Filament

Making your own stuff with a 3D printer is vastly cheaper than what you’d pay for manufactured goods, even factoring in the cost of buying the plastic filament.

7 Mar 2014

Armco Metals Announces Long Term Steel Scrap Supply Agreement with Mitsui

Armco Metals Holdings, Inc. ("Armco Metals Holdings"), a U.S. based company that engages in the import, sale, and distribution of metal ore and non-ferrous metals in the People's Republic of China, recycles scrap metals used by steel mills in the production of recycled steel and provides sourcing and pricing services for various metals to its network of customers, today announced that its Armco (Lianyungang) Renewable Metals, Inc. subsidiary ("Renewable Metals") has entered into a steel scrap supply agreement with Mitsui & Co. (Shanghai) Ltd. ("Mitsui Shanghai"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., ("Mitsui & Co.") whose business covers energy, machinery, chemicals, food, textile, logistics, finance, and more on a global scale.

7 Mar 2014

Sygnature Discovery Performs Reproducible Low Temperature Reactions Using Asynt DrySyn SnowStorm System

Sygnature Discovery (Nottingham, UK) has been using an Asynt DrySyn SnowStorm system to perform low temperature reactions which have traditionally been difficult to undertake reproducibly on a small to medium scale.

From Asynt 7 Mar 2014

Morgan Advanced Materials Technical Ceramics Business Offers Range of Precision Glass Tubing and Rods

Morgan Advanced Materials announces that its Technical Ceramics business offers a range of precision glass tubing and rods, ideal for electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace applications, including miniature fuse bodies, glass-to-metal seals in integrated circuit packages, glass lenses for erasable/programmable read only memory (EPROM), and read only memory (ROM).

From Morgan Advanced Materials 6 Mar 2014

New Website Dedicated to X-Ray Tubes Launched By AXT

AXT Pty. Ltd. has recently launched a new website dedicated to their x-ray tube business. This new website is located at www.axtxraytubes.com and focuses on replacement x-ray tubes for analytical, industrial and medical applications.

From AXT Pty Ltd 6 Mar 2014

B&W Tek and LabWare Announce Strategic Partnership to Distribute Integrated Raman Spectroscopy Solutions

B&W Tek, an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is pleased to announce its newest strategic partnership with LabWare, Inc., the global leader of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and instrument integration software products.

From B&W Tek 6 Mar 2014

Bioinspired Gel Material May Hold Potential for Replacement of Damaged Organs

A bit of pressure from a new shrinking, sponge-like gel is all it takes to turn transplanted unspecialized cells into cells that lay down minerals and begin to form teeth.

6 Mar 2014