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Instron Introduces New CEAST MF20 And MF30 Melt Flow Testers

Instron®, a leading provider of testing equipment solutions designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components, introduces the new CEAST MF20 and MF30 Melt Flow Testers, which meet the stricter requir...

14 Nov 2012

New Technology In Grips From Instron

Instron®, a leading provider of testing equipment solutions designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components, introduces new hydraulic side-action grips with DuraSync technology that provides an...

14 Nov 2012

Color And Monochrome Imaging Sensors In A Single Unit From Olympus

Olympus now offers a remarkable dual-sensor scientific-grade microscope camera that combines advanced digital color technology with the high sensitivity of monochrome imaging, switching quickly and easily between color a...

14 Nov 2012

Fairey Filtration Now Officially Renamed Mantec Technical Ceramics

Fairey Filtration Systems has now officially been renamed Mantec Technical Ceramics and, within the wider Mantec Group, sits alongside those other companies at the 8000m2 Stoke-on-Trent headquarters with technical ceramics expertise and advanced manufacturing facilities.

From Mantec Technical Ceramics 14 Nov 2012

New AMI Report Highlights Effects of Global Economic Crisis on the European Plastics Industry

In a new report, leading plastics industry consultant, Applied Market Information Ltd. (AMI) has documented the rotational moulding industry in Europe. The report highlights the versatility of the rotational moulding process and its ability to be a cost-effective alternative to blow moulding.

14 Nov 2012

Interstate Specialty Offers Custom Manufactured Gaskets and Seals for Handling Fluids

Interstate Specialty Products, Inc. has announced the availability of custom manufactured gaskets and seals that are engineered to match critical OEM fluid handling requirements. They are die cut to customer specifications from a wide range of materials.

14 Nov 2012

Self-Assembling Block Polymers Boost Storage Capacity of Hard Disk Drives

The storage capacity of hard disk drives could increase by a factor of five thanks to processes developed by chemists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.

14 Nov 2012

Cheaper, More Environmentally Friendly Method to Produce Lithium Batteries

Researchers at Aalto University, Finland have developed a method for producing lithium batteries that is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than previously used methods. This new process has succeeded in replacing the harmful methylpyrrolidone (NMP) solvent, which is traditionally used in the manufacturing of electrodes, with water.

14 Nov 2012

Injectable Cryogels for Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering

Bioengineers at Harvard have developed a gel-based sponge that can be molded to any shape, loaded with drugs or stem cells, compressed to a fraction of its size, and delivered via injection. Once inside the body, it pops back to its original shape and gradually releases its cargo, before safely degrading.

14 Nov 2012

Low-Cost Device Converts Farm Waste into Paper

Johns Hopkins engineering students won $15,000 in a national competition for adapting a traditional Korean paper-making technique into a low-tech method that impoverished villagers can use to make paper for their children's underequipped schools.

14 Nov 2012

Better Extraction of Xylan for Increased Biofuel Generation

After cellulose, xylan is the most abundant biomass material on Earth, and therefore represents an enormous potential source of stored solar energy for the production of advance biofuels. A major roadblock, however, has been extracting xylan from plant cell walls. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have taken a significant step towards removing this roadblock by identifying a gene in rice plants whose suppression improves both the extraction of xylan and the overall release of the sugars needed to make biofuels.

14 Nov 2012

University of Nottingham Awarded £2.9m Funding to Produce Low-Carbon Fuel

The University of Nottingham has been awarded funding of £2.9m to help make low-carbon fuel.

From University of Nottingham 14 Nov 2012

Collaboration to Implement Material Technologies in Innovative Printed Transistor Prototypes

Samsung Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. and PARC, a Xerox company, today announced a client relationship to apply and implement novel material technologies of Samsung Fine Chemicals in innovative printed transistor prototypes. PARC will build on its vast expertise in printed transistors in order to demonstrate Samsung's breakthrough material offerings that will enable novel display products.

14 Nov 2012

Metalloacid Surface-Coating Helps Control Spread of Hospital-Acquired Infections

A new study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control reports of a phenomenon that could help control the spread of hospital-acquired infections: a surface-coating of metalloacids kills off microbial strains, even in multidrug-resistant microorganisms.

14 Nov 2012

Miele Utilizes Outokumpu Stainless Steel for Washing Machines Components

Outokumpu stainless steel is used to make crucial components in Miele’s world-leading washers and driers. Miele’s washing machines have the longest product lives of all competing appliances according to independent German WfK Cleaning Technology Institute. Miele’s machines tested by WfK were the only ones to operate faultlessly after 5 000 wash cycles. This equals about 20 years of normal use.

From Outokumpu Stainless, Inc. 14 Nov 2012