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Premier Materials Supplier Indium Participates in SMTA-Sponsored Webinar

Indium Corporation’s Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, vice president of technology, will present Voiding Control and Reliability of Solder Joints with Backward Compatibility as part of a webinar sponsored by the SMTA on February 7, 2013, from 1-2:30 p.m.

7 Feb 2013

New Instron BioBox System to Test Medical Devices and Biomaterials at Body Temperature

Within the medical device industry, regulatory agencies often test internally-based devices and implants in a physiological state. The lnstron® BioBox meets the growing trend of testing actual medical devices and biomaterials at body temperature (37 °Ñ). For large or long devices, testing in à liquid may not be practical. As an alternative, testing inside à controlled air environment at body temperature provides à powerful solution.

7 Feb 2013

Optima Specialty Steel Closes Kentucky Electric Steel Acquisition

Optima Specialty Steel, Inc. (“Optima Specialty Steel”), a portfolio company of Optima Acquisitions, LLC (“Optima Acquisitions”), today announced the closing of its previously announced transactio...

7 Feb 2013

Praxair Announces NuCO<sub>2</sub> Acquisition

Praxair, Inc., announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire NuCO2 INC. from Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles, California based private equity firm, for $1.1 billion in cash. The transaction is subject to customary conditions to closing, including regulatory approval, and is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2013.

7 Feb 2013

Ceram Extends Cleaning Validation Service for Medical Devices to Include Detergent Analysis

Ceram, the international materials development and testing company, has extended its cleaning validation service for the medical devices and associated industries to include detergent analysis. Using Liquid Chromatog...

6 Feb 2013

A New Generation of Turnkey TCSPC Fluorescence Lifetime Systems From HORIBA Scientific

HORIBA Scientific the global leader in fluorescence spectroscopy systems, announces the Delta Series, their newest generation of time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) fluorescence lifetime systems. They are desi...

From HORIBA 6 Feb 2013

Metso Expands Capabilities through Chinese Manganese Steel Foundry Acquisition

Metso is continuing to strengthen its presence in China by acquiring a manganese steel foundry (JX) in Quzhou City, Zheijang Province some 400 km Southwest of Shanghai. The acquisition of JX will improve our capabilities to supply wear parts to our mining and construction industry customers in China and other markets in Asia Pacific.

6 Feb 2013

Brookfield Homes Places Additional Purchase Order to Eco Building Products

Eco Building Products, Inc. announced today the Company has been awarded additional production releases, representing in excess of four hundred ninety five thousand dollars ($495,000.00) in gross revenues in the combined release, on ECOB's contract to supply Eco Red Shield tm coated lumber, labor and trusses for the next three phases of houses at Brookfield Homes "Green Door" project in Ontario, California.

6 Feb 2013

Biomedical Structures Announces Merger with Modified Polymer Components

Biomedical Structures (BMS), a developer of biomedical textiles for medical devices and other advanced clinical applications, and Modified Polymer Components (MPC), which specializes in the design, rapid prototyping and manufacture of reliable, highly precise polymer components for medical device OEMs, today announced their merger. Jointly, the companies will better provide medical device customers with a full spectrum of value-added services across a wider range of applications. Ampersand Capital Partners will be the majority shareholder of the combined company.

6 Feb 2013

Annual DFI Student Day to be Hosted at Atlas Tube Facility

Atlas Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group, announced today it will host its annual DFI Student Day on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, at the Atlas Pipe Piles Chicago manufacturing mill. Atlas Tube and the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) welcome engineering students to the mill for a guided tour, lunch and various networking opportunities.

6 Feb 2013

Analysis of Plastics for Colombian Food and Beverage Packaging Market

Their light weight and low costs are helping plastics steal the march over conventional materials such as glass, paper, and metal in the food and beverage packaging market. Plastic packaging can provide comparable – if not better – barrier properties, protection, and shelf life for foodstuff. It also offers unparalleled benefits such as transparency, which enables inspection of goods; easier transportation, as lightweight plastics make products more portable; and is easy to shape, label, and design.

6 Feb 2013

Raven Industries to Introduce VaporBlock Spec3 Showcase at World of Concrete

Raven Industries Engineered Films Division announces the VaporBlock® Spec3 Showcase, a select under-concrete-slab barrier series. The Spec3 Showcase contains three major categories with key products for superior gas and moisture protection.

6 Feb 2013

New Report Sheds Light on Global Bioplastics Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Bioplastics - A Global Market Watch, 2011 - 2016" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 6 Feb 2013

Mitsubishi Electric’s Multi-Wire Electrical Discharge Slicer for SiC Ingot Processing

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today it has developed a prototype multi-wire electrical discharge processing technology to cut very hard 4 inch square polycrystalline silicon carbide (SiC) ingots into 40 pieces at once. The technology is expected to improve both the productivity of SiC slicing and the effective use of SiC material. Mitsubishi Electric aims to market its multi-wire electrical discharge slicer by fiscal 2015.

6 Feb 2013

Coherent’s Micromachining Laser for Microelectronics Fabrication Applications

The newest AVIA™ micromachining laser from Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) delivers the highest power commercially available at its wavelength and repetition rate. Specifically, the AVIA 355-33 offers 33 Watts of output at 355 nm (at 110 kHz). This high power translates directly into increased production efficiency, thus lowering cost per part.

6 Feb 2013