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PPG Industries to Showcase Improved DURANAR Coating Line at GREENBUILD Expo

PPG Industries’ coil and extrusion coatings group will exhibit an improved line of DURANAR(R) coatings during the GREENBUILD(R) International Conference and Expo in booth 1827S at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, Nov. 14-15.

12 Oct 2012

Saint-Gobain Crystals Receives Supply Contract for Sapphire Engineered Armor and Tooling

Saint-Gobain Crystals has been awarded a three-year contract, valued at approximately $20 million , to supply the U.S. Army and Marine Corps with sapphire engineered armor and tooling to make bulletproof windshields and door windows for the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Launcher.

12 Oct 2012

ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces Auction to License Semiconductor Microsphere Technology

ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for auction an exclusive license to semiconductor microsphere technology developed at the University of California, Irvine.

12 Oct 2012

Esmark Acquires RG Steel’s Yorkville Cold-Rolled Finishing Mill and Stake in Ohio Coatings Company

Esmark, Inc. and its wholly owned steel services subsidiary, Esmark Steel Group, today announced that the company has closed into escrow on the transaction for RG Steel LLC’s Yorkville, Ohio cold-rolled finishing mill and RG Steel’s 50 percent interest in Ohio Coatings Company’s tin plate production facility.

12 Oct 2012

Responsible Care Certification Awarded to Linde's Air Separation Plant in Kansas

Linde North America has received certification of its Coffeyville, Kansas, air separation plant under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® program.

12 Oct 2012

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