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Newlight Technologies Adds New Production Capacity for Gas-To-Plastic Manufacturing Line

Newlight Technologies announced today the addition of 100,000-pounds per year in new production capacity on the company's advanced-generation gas-to-plastic production line, which converts air and greenhouse gases into high-performance bioplastics that can significantly out-compete oil-based plastics on price.

12 Oct 2012

New Technique to Explore Structures of Complex Surfaces

With a novel idea, a lot of work and some of the world’s most sophisticated equipment, researchers at McMaster University have developed a new way to study the structures of complex surfaces, opening the door to future discoveries in materials, energy and technology.

12 Oct 2012

PPG Industries Releases Annual Automotive Color Popularity and Trend Data

PPG Industries, the world’s leading manufacturer of transportation coatings, today released its annual automotive color popularity and trend data. While white retained the leading spot as the most popular car color based on 2012 automotive build data, PPG forecasts that the overall use of color is on the rise.

12 Oct 2012

c2renew Licenses Production Technology for Performance-Driven Biocomposite Materials

A technology developed at North Dakota State University, Fargo, creates performance- driven biocomposite materials by incorporating agricultural by-products into plastics for a wide range of engineering applications.

12 Oct 2012

New System For High-Volume Production Of PC components

SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business, a world leader in engineering thermoplastics and advanced material solutions, and ULVAC Inc., a leader in mass-production vacuum technologies, today announced the commercial availability of the new, state-of-the-art ULGLAZE system for high-volume production of plasma-coated polycarbonate (PC) components for automotive glazing applications.

From SABIC Innovative Plastics 11 Oct 2012

Novelis Wins Three European Aluminium Awards

Novelis, the global leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, was awarded with the prestigious Jury Prize and two Special Prizes at the 2012 European Aluminium Awards yesterday during the Aluminium 2012 Trade Fair in Dusseldorf, Germany.

11 Oct 2012

Cereplast Commences Selling Hybrid Resins Application for Safety Helmets in India

Cereplast, Inc., a leading manufacturer of proprietary biobased, sustainable bioplastics, today announced that the Company has begun selling its first Hybrid resins application in India initially for safety helmets.

11 Oct 2012

IPG Launches Pink Painter's Tape to Support Fight against Breast Cancer

Intertape Polymer Group® Inc. (TSX:ITP)("Intertape®", "IPG®" or the "Company"), a leading North American manufacturer of tape products, is supporting the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation® in the fight against breast cancer.

11 Oct 2012

Inorganic Catalyst May Enable More Robust Synthesis of Valuable Rare Sugars

Despite their low natural abundance, rare sugars have enormous potential in several important applications, including their use as components for antiviral drugs, low-calorie sweeteners with low glycemic indexes, anti-inflammatory agents with immunosuppressive properties and chiral building blocks in natural products synthesis.

11 Oct 2012

Global Bioplastics Production to Increase to 5.8 Million Tonnes by 2016

Biobased PET contributes significantly with a tenfold increase in its capacity

11 Oct 2012

Advanced Black Silicon Solar Cells Produce More Electricity from the IR Spectrum

The Sun blazes down from a deep blue sky – and rooftop solar cells convert this solar energy into electricity. Not all of it, however: Around a quarter of the Sun's spectrum is made up of infrared radiation which cannot be converted by standard solar cells – so this heat radiation is lost.

11 Oct 2012

Novel Metabolic Pathway Enables Direct Conversion of Renewable Resources to Propylene

Global Bioenergies (Paris:ALGBE) demonstrates a novel metabolic pathway enabling the direct conversion of renewable resources to propylene, one of the main building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

11 Oct 2012

Euroresins to Distribute BASF Baxxodur Epoxy Systems for Composite Materials

With immediate effect, BASF and Euroresins Europe Holding GmbH & Co. KG cooperate in the sale of Baxxodur® epoxy systems for composite materials in Europe. Euroresins will distribute the BASF systems into various applications. Examples include shipbuilding, transportation and construction.

11 Oct 2012

Soitec, Shin-Etsu Handotai Enter Agreement to Expand Global SOI Wafer Supply

Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd (SEH), the world leader in the manufacturing of silicon wafers today announced a Smart Cut™ licensing extension and expanded technology cooperation agreement.

11 Oct 2012

U.S. Navy Destroyer Receives Composite Deckhouse from Huntington Ingalls

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that the company's Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the composite deckhouse for the destroyer Zumwalt (DDG 1000) to the U.S. Navy.

11 Oct 2012