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Yokogawa's European Standards Laboratory Offers The Latest in Calibration Services

Yokogawa has recently upgraded its state-of-the-art calibration laboratory which includes wideband and high accurate power-meter calibration systems as well as systems for calibrating oscilloscopes, recorders and optical...

From Yokogawa Europe B.V. 19 Sep 2013

Bruker Announces An Entirely New Technology - The World's First Preclinical Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) System

At the 2013 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC), Bruker today announced the world’s first Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) system, an entirely new technology for preclinical imaging.

From Bruker 19 Sep 2013

New Packaging Concept For Pans From NETZSCH

A new packaging concept for pans from NETZSCH is serving to simplify the preparation and archiving of test samples in differential calorimetry.

From NETZSCH-Gerätebau GmbH 19 Sep 2013

Shaw Industries Makes Investment for Expansion of Extrusion Facility and Distribution Capacity

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (Shaw), the world’s largest carpet manufacturer and a leading floorcovering provider, is investing $100 million to streamline its distribution network and expand its fiber extrusion facility in Northwest Georgia. These investments will expand capacity for projected growth, add approximately 175 jobs and improve service to its customers.

19 Sep 2013

Manufacturers Reserve Supply Becomes Distributor for Trex Outdoor Living Products

Trex Company, the world’s largest manufacturer of wood-alternative decking and railing, is growing its presence in the Northeast with the addition of New Jersey-based Manufacturers Reserve Supply (MRS) to its distribution network. MRS will supply dealers across the region with high performance, low-maintenance Trex products.

From Trex Company, Inc. 19 Sep 2013

Metal Bulletin Selects Novelis as Aluminium Fabricator of the Year

Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, was named Aluminium Fabricator of the Year, one of the top prizes at the Metal Bulletin Global Awards for Aluminium Excellence held today at a ceremony in Geneva. The company's Yeongju, South Korea, Recycling Center was also honored as the Best Brownfield Technology Project winner.

From Novelis Corp 19 Sep 2013

BASF's Coatings Ensure Longevity and Efficiency of New Wind Turbine in Hamburg

Since mid-August, Hamburg’s port has hosted a new inland wind turbine whose rotor blades are nearly 60 meters long. BASF’s RELEST® coatings make a crucial contribution to the longevity of the turbine. They ensure high surface quality and protect the glass-fiber reinforced plastic rotor blades from enormous stresses brought about by weathering, erosion and UV radiation, for example.

From BASF Corporation 19 Sep 2013

Metso Concludes Statutory Negotiations in Most Units Serving the Paper Industry

Metso’s Pulp, Paper and Power segment has completed statutory negotiations in most of units serving the paper industry. As a result of these, the workforce in Finland will be reduced by a total of 660 positions.

19 Sep 2013

Innovative Odor-Releasing Materials Provide Safer, More Consistent Way to Train Dogs

Traditionally, the training of bomb-sniffing dogs has been a hazardous job, but newly developed odor-releasing materials could take the risk out of that work. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are seeking to patent a novel system that can capture scents and release them over time.

19 Sep 2013

Study Findings Help Improve Performance and Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries

A research group led by Dr. Yoshitaka Tateyama from the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), in collaboration with Fujifilm Corporation, succeeded in elucidating, on the atomic level, reaction mechanisms of the reductive decomposition and binding of electrolytes toward formation of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) on the interface between electrolyte and electrode, by using the K computer, the current flagship supercomputer in Japan. The findings will play a key role in improving the performance and safety of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).

19 Sep 2013

Vulcan Materials Announces Commencement of Mine Development at Azusa Rock Quarry

Vulcan Materials Company today announced the commencement of mine development at the Company's Azusa Rock Quarry, east of Los Angeles, California. This strategically located source of reserves in the San Gabriel Valley contains over 100 million tons of quality granite aggregate, allowing Vulcan to supply critical California infrastructure projects and commercial development for decades to come.

19 Sep 2013

MIT Researchers Find New Class of Materials Capable of Promoting Oxygen Evolution

MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in a reaction called oxygen evolution, a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries.

By David L. Chandler 19 Sep 2013

New Report Provides Trends and Forecasts of Global Battery Materials Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Battery Materials Market: Trends & Forecasts to 2018" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 19 Sep 2013

Momentive’s New Niax 2-EHA-Free Tin Catalyst for Flexible Foam Applications

Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (MPM) will launch Niax Catalyst D-25, a new tin catalyst free of two ethyl-hexanoic acid (2-EHA), at the 2013 Polyurethanes Technical conference September 23-25 in Phoenix, Ariz. MPM is introducing Niax Catalyst D-25 in response to the industry need for an alternative material without 2-EHA, which is a chemical listed on California’s Proposition 65.

From Momentive Performance Materials, Inc. 19 Sep 2013

Indium Corporation to Present on Bottom Termination Components at the Business Electronic Soldering Technologies (BEST) 2013 Symposium

Indium Corporation’s Brook Sandy-Smith, Product Support Specialist – PCB Assembly Materials, will present at the Business Electronic Soldering Technologies (BEST) 2013 Tech Symposium on Bottom Termination Components (BTC), September 25 in South Barrington, IL.

18 Sep 2013

Materials Science News

Yokogawa's European Standards Laboratory Offers The Latest in Calibration Services

Bruker Announces An Entirely New Technology - The World's First Preclinical Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) System

New Packaging Concept For Pans From NETZSCH

Shaw Industries Makes Investment for Expansion of Extrusion Facility and Distribution Capacity

Manufacturers Reserve Supply Becomes Distributor for Trex Outdoor Living Products

Metal Bulletin Selects Novelis as Aluminium Fabricator of the Year

BASF's Coatings Ensure Longevity and Efficiency of New Wind Turbine in Hamburg

Metso Concludes Statutory Negotiations in Most Units Serving the Paper Industry

Innovative Odor-Releasing Materials Provide Safer, More Consistent Way to Train Dogs

Study Findings Help Improve Performance and Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Vulcan Materials Announces Commencement of Mine Development at Azusa Rock Quarry

MIT Researchers Find New Class of Materials Capable of Promoting Oxygen Evolution

New Report Provides Trends and Forecasts of Global Battery Materials Market

Momentive’s New Niax 2-EHA-Free Tin Catalyst for Flexible Foam Applications

Indium Corporation to Present on Bottom Termination Components at the Business Electronic Soldering Technologies (BEST) 2013 Symposium

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