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Global Market for Fuel Cells to Grow at 24.2% CAGR to Reach $1.7B in 2017

The strongest drivers for the adoption of fuel cells by the world's armed forces are performance and energy density, particularly for use by individual troopers. On average, each soldier carries around nine pounds of disposable batteries in their kit, used for powering a range of portable electronics such as imaging and communications equipment.

21 Nov 2012

Praxair, Messier-Bugatti-Dowty Enter Agreement for Airframe Thermal Spray Coating Services

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., has entered into a 10-year agreement with Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran Group) for thermal spray coating services to replace chrome plating on major airframe component programs.

21 Nov 2012

Unifying Product, Production Lifecycles with Factory Infrastructure Lifecycles - Siemens and Bentley Systems

Siemens and Bentley Systems today announced a strategic collaboration to advance the integration of digital product design and manufacturing processes design with information modeling for facilities lifecycle design. ...

From Siemens Corporation 21 Nov 2012

US DLA Awards Saft Five Year Contract for Lithium Sulfur Dioxide Batteries

Saft, a world leader in the design and manufacture of advanced technology batteries for industry has been awarded a major five year contract by the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to supply the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps with BA 5590 lithium sulfur dioxide (Li-SO2) batteries.

21 Nov 2012

Petro-Based Material Markets are Top Markets for Bio-Based Materials

Bio-based polymers have been largely limited to specialized niche applications, but a new analysis from Lux Research finds that the top markets for bio-based materials are largely the same ones currently dominated by petro-based materials.

21 Nov 2012

DOE Awards Stion $2M to Scale-Up Ultra High-Efficiency Thin Film Modules

Stion, a leading manufacturer of high-efficiency thin-film solar modules, today announced a $2M award from the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to continue pilot production and scale-up of its ultra high-efficiency thin film modules based on proprietary tandem junction technology.

21 Nov 2012

Optomec to Showcase Aerosol Jet Systems for 3D Printed Electronics at DMC 2012

Optomec announced today that it will showcase Aerosol Jet systems for 3D printed electronics at the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) being held at the Marriott Orlando World Center in Orlando, FL from November 26-29, 2012. Optomec will be located in booth #803. Bill Macy, Application Development Lead at Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS), and Ken Vartanian, Marketing Director at Optomec, will deliver a joint presentation in the “Printed Electronics - Bringing New Solutions to DoD Applications” Track at 1:50 pm on Monday, November 26.

21 Nov 2012

NCCC Honors Teledyne DALSA with Business of the Year Award

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors, is proud to have been honored as Business of the Year by the Netherlands-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (NCCC). The award was presented by His Excellency Mr. James Lambert, Canada’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, at a ceremony held November 14 in The Hague.

21 Nov 2012

New System to Spin Nanofibers

Nanofibers — strands of material only a couple hundred nanometers in diameter — have a huge range of possible applications: scaffolds for bioengineered organs, ultrafine air and water filters, and lightweight Kevlar body armor, to name just a few. But so far, the expense of producing them has consigned them to a few high-end, niche applications.

21 Nov 2012

New ACS Video on Transparent Solar Cells

The American Chemical Society (ACS) today launched a new video series that highlights headline-making research from the society's suite of more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific journals.

21 Nov 2012

GPC/SEC productivity Boosted By Malvern’s Complementary Detector Arrays

Malvern Panalytical’ detector range for gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) now includes the Zetasizer µV, a versatile size and molecular weight detector that can be added to any system to boost experimental productivity by maximizing information flow from a single experiment.

From Malvern Panalytical 20 Nov 2012

Unique Kitting Proposition From Cytec

The Process Materials business of Cytec (previously known as Umeco Process Materials) is a global industry leader in all aspects of kitted process materials.

20 Nov 2012

quasar’s Biomethane Refueling Facility Utilizes Air Products’ PRISM Membrane Technology

Air Products’ PRISM® Membrane technology is enabling vehicles to run on methane at quasar energy group’s biomethane refueling facility in Columbus, Ohio. PRISM® PB Membrane modules are the key component of quasar’s biofueling plant, which uses anaerobic digestion to convert biogas generated from waste products into purified biomethane. The purified methane produced by quasar is currently fueling 25-50 municipal trucks, fleet vehicles, and non-commercial CNG vehicles every day.

From Air Products PLC 20 Nov 2012

WITec Presence In Canada Expanded

WITec, worldwide leader in nano-analytical microscopy systems, selected Spectra Research Corporation (SRC) as new sales representative in Canada. Due to the well-established and very active scientific communities in...

From WITec GmbH 20 Nov 2012

SpectroTrack V2.0 Software Gives Comprehensive Analysis and Reporting of Machinery Lubrication Conditions

Industries in which high value equipment assets are used such as in mining, military, oil and gas, transportation, and construction, will benefit from the latest software release from Spectro, Inc.

From AMETEK Spectro Scientific 20 Nov 2012