High strength steel is a boon for the machine construction and automotive industries in their quest for light weight materials for building bridges, roofs and cars. However, the lightweight, high tensile strength steel is marred by its vulnerability to cold cracking on welding.
By Nick Gilbert
7 Sep 2012
Engineers at Fraunhofer have collaborated with specialty chemicals manufacturer LANXESS to simultaneously design and develop a system for manufacturing membrane elements used in reverse osmosis of water by employing virtual engineering.
By Nick Gilbert
7 Sep 2012
Utility Trailer Manufacturing, the oldest trailer manufacturing company in America, has incorporated two new high strength steel options for the company’s 4000D-X Composite dry freight van. The high strength steel is used for the side panels of the DX-100. The first steel option is a substitute for the 0.040 inch thick aluminum side skin used routinely.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Sep 2012
Murata Manufacturing, a manufacturer and global supplier of ceramic based passive electronic components, power supply and communication modules, has developed the smallest ever monolithic ceramic capacitor. Dubbed the 0201 < JIS >, the capacitor dimensions are 0.25 mm by 0.125 mm.
By Nick Gilbert
7 Sep 2012
A basic engineering package (BEP) contract for the joint petrochemical venture between Shell Global Solutions and Qatar Petroleum to develop a global scale mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) complex at Ras Laffan in Qatar has been awarded to the subsidiary of the Global Engineering and Construction Group of Switzerland based Foster Wheeler. While the financial value of the contract has not been revealed, the earnings from the contract will be booked in Foster Wheeler’s third quarter statement for 2012.
By Nick Gilbert
7 Sep 2012
3M Aerospace has launched a new easy-to-apply solution labeled the 3M Removable Gel Tape for aircraft floorboards to safeguard the aircraft substrate against corrosion. The removable gel tapes function as excellent sealants and offer protection from corrosion when they are fixed beneath the floorboards on top of the aircraft floor beams. The tapes thus eliminate the need for costly repairs and help avoid the aircraft from being out of service.
By Nick Gilbert
7 Sep 2012
Smithers Rapra Publishing has announced the release of Electrospinning for Advanced Biomedical Applications and Therapies .
The main focus of this book is on the development of electrospun membranes for advanced bio...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researchers have identified the dominant working mechanism of cobalt catalysts that hold potential in the water-splitting reaction to generate hydrogen for electricity and water production.
By Nick Gilbert
6 Sep 2012
A multidisciplinary team at Harvard has created an exceptionally tough and stretchy gel, which is also biocompatible and self-healing.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
6 Sep 2012
Air Products, the company that supplies process, atmospheric and specialty gases, has signed a contract with Hebei Yangmei Zhengyuan Chemical Group’s wholly owned subsidiary, Cangzhou Zhengyuan Fertilizer. As per the contract, Air Products will construct, own and manage an air separation unit (ASU) and integrated gas liquefier in China’s Hebei region.
BASF, a company manufacturing and delivering chemical solutions globally, has devised an innovative and sustainable packaging for snacks using its biopolymer technology. Previous attempts in the industry to develop a green alternative for snack packaging have not met with success.
Researchers at Cornell University led by Kyle Shen wanted to understand the reason behind the intriguing phenomenon in transition oxide superlattices where an addition of an extra atomic layer is enough to cause the transition from conductor to insulator.
By Nick Gilbert
6 Sep 2012
Silgan Holdings, a provider of rigid packaging solutions for consumer goods products, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of plastic thermoformed food business belonging to Rexam for a price of $248.1 million.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Sep 2012
SPI, the plastics industry trade association in the U.S., conducts the NPE triennial international plastics exposition. The NPE2015 is to take place in March, 2015 in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC). The SPI will be offering on-site ‘mission control centers’ to the buying teams of brand owners and OEMs
By G.P. Thomas
5 Sep 2012
A new study by scientists at Rice University on the growth of graphene in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnace paves way to improve the quality of materials’ growth. The study findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. Co-author, Boris Yakobson informed that electric current traverses through a pure graphene sheet with virtually no resistance, a quality that makes the nanomaterial a material of choice for electronic applications such as touchscreens.
By Nick Gilbert
5 Sep 2012