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Battelle Honors DOE Electrical Engineer as Inventor of the Year

Gianluigi De Geronimo, a leading electrical engineer who designs unique, state-of-the-art microelectronics at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, was honored by Battelle as an "Inventor of the Year" at Battelle's annual recognition program in Columbus, Ohio, on April 19.

30 Apr 2013

IFF and Amyris Partner to Commercialize Renewable Fragrance Ingredients

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a leading global creator of flavors and fragrances for consumer products, and Amyris, a leading renewable products company, today announced a collaboration to develop and commercialize a specific set of renewable fragrance ingredients.

30 Apr 2013

New Report on Global Sol-Gel Product Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Sol-Gel Product Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 30 Apr 2013

Lasers Can Effectively Weld Heat Exchangers

Can lasers perform welds precisely and reliably in the midst of thundering machinery? The prototype of a new laser welder developed by an international team of researchers has now withstood the worst.

From Fraunhofer FEP 30 Apr 2013

ARPA-E Funded Printed Battery Project to Leverage PARC’s Co-Extrusion Technology

PARC, a Xerox company, has launched a project with the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the 2012 Open Funding Opportunity.

From PARC Corporation 30 Apr 2013

Workshop Series On Scanning Electron Microscope Products

Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC, announces that it is holding three workshop series on its innovative scanning electron microscope (SEM) products. Separate events will be held for the ZEISS Field Emission Scanning Elec...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Apr 2013

Additives for Rolling Oils Presented By Clariant At STLE 2013

Clariant, a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, today announced that its Industrial Lubricants business will present an invited paper at the STLE 68th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Detroit, held May 5-9, 2013. Cha...

From Clariant Corporation 30 Apr 2013

Spectrometer for Ambient Reactive Ion Monitoring From Hiden

The Hiden HPR-60 Mass Spectrometer is a research tool conceived specifically for direct analysis of ions, radicals and neutral species in reactive processes, and will be of interest to researchers in the fields of plasma...

From Hiden Analytical 29 Apr 2013

New P-Dot Electro-Pneumatic Jetting Valve From Intertronics

Dispensing specialists Intertronics, together with their sales partners Liquidyn, are now addressing those applications where very precise non-contact micro dot dispensing is required, in the range of 3 – 200 nl, e...

From INTERTRONICS 29 Apr 2013

Hexcel To Attend SAMPE 2013

At this year’s SAMPE USA show Hexcel continues to showcase its innovation leadership in composite materials. Visitors to the Hexcel booth at SAMPE will discover some of the latest developments for the Aerospace mar...

From Hexcel 29 Apr 2013

AMG Aluminum to Sell 45% Equity Interest in Nanjing YKB to Nanjing Yunhai Special Metals

AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") announces that AMG Aluminum has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its 45% equity interest in Nanjing Yunhai KB Alloys Co., Ltd ("YKB") to Nanjing Yunhai Special Metals Co., Ltd. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2013.

29 Apr 2013

BYD Unveils New Technologies to Improve Fuel Efficiencies

This week, BYD unveiled several exciting technologies to improve fuel efficiencies by greater than 20% in all their 2014 vehicle line-up. They are calling it the “Green Hybrid” initiative with “Insta-Pure” cabin filtering systems and were well aligned with this year’s Auto Show theme – "innovation, better life".

29 Apr 2013

Integrated Aroma Ingredients Complex to be Built by BASF and PETRONAS in Malaysia

BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) intend to invest USD 500 million (MYR 1.5 billion) in an integrated aroma ingredients project at their existing joint venture site BASF PETRONAS Chemicals in Gebeng, Kuantan. With this investment, the partners will help meet the globally growing demands of customers in the flavor and fragrance industry, especially in Asia Pacific.

From BASF Corporation 29 Apr 2013

Bal Seal to Showcase Solutions to Address Critical Oilfield Issues at Offshore Technology Conference

What’s in a word? Perhaps the toughest challenges facing oilfield equipment engineers today. During the Offshore Technology Conference May 6–9 in Houston, Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. will invite attendees to describe their most pressing engineering challenges “in a word,” with the goal of creating custom components to solve them.

29 Apr 2013

Home-Improvement Retailer, Lowe’s, to Offer Fiberon HomeSelect Composite Railing Products

Beginning this month, Fiberon®, a leading manufacturer of PVC and composite decking, railing and fencing products, announces availability of its exclusive Fiberon HomeSelect® railing brand at home-improvement retailer, Lowe’s.

29 Apr 2013