Reportlinker.com has released a new market research report titled “North America Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) Industry Outlook to 2016 - Market Size, Company Share, Price Trends, Capacity Forecasts of All Active and Planned Plants”.
UTC Aerospace Systems, the aerospace and defense technology arm of United Technologies, will be displaying its complete range of systems meant for defense, security, fire-fighting and law enforcement applications at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) show to be held from August 6 to August 9 in Las Vegas. UTC Aerospace Systems will occupy booth number 2654.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
6 Aug 2012
KEMET, a manufacturer of ceramic, tantalum, film, aluminum, electrolytic and paper capacitors has launched a new series of high energy polymer tantalum capacitors labeled as the T545 series. The surface mount capacitors are ideal for application in GPS systems, wireless cards and solid state drives.
By G.P. Thomas
6 Aug 2012
NuSil Technology, formulator of silicone compounds for application in various industries, has launched a silicone thermal interface material labeled EPM1-2493.
Solar power is still considered economically non-viable in comparison to energy derived from fossil fuels. According to Christian Hoepfner Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) in Cambridge, United States, the market penetration of renewable energy on a global scale is possible only by making the production cheaper.
By Nick Gilbert
6 Aug 2012
Strategy Analytics has released a new report on the global automotive semiconductor market. The report predicts the market worth $23.7 billion in 2011 to grow at 9.3% CAGR till 2016.
By Nick Gilbert
6 Aug 2012
The collaborative research project in printed electronics titled "Nanostructuring and plastic electronics print platform" (NanoPEP) and undertaken by BASF SE, TU Darmstadt and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) has achieved success in the first phase which involves the synthesis of functional nanomaterials and development of novel printing processes to facilitate the former.
A Call for Abstracts has been issued by the Advisory Committee of next year's Materials Education Symposia. The Advisory Committee, made up of educators from leading universities and materials organizations, invite a...
A new software update to SpectraWiz© which is included free-of-charge with each spectrometer is now available for download at www.StellarNet.us.
Michelman has hired Mr. Manoj Deorukhkar as its new India Country Manager, a newly created position at the company.
A Low-cost, eco-friendly and rechargeable battery has been developed by a team of researchers headed by Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. This battery could be utilized to store energy in solar power facilities on rainy days. The research was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), a division of the U. S. Department of Energy.
By Nick Gilbert
3 Aug 2012
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM researchers have obtained a patent for gypsum boards that can store thermal energy, which will bring down up to 40% of a building’s energy consumption. The boards along with strategies like natural airing and sunlight can bring down energy consumption, especially in Spain where nearly 80% of the energy is imported.
By Nick Gilbert
3 Aug 2012
The joint venture comprising Ma'aden and Alcoa awarded a contract to Fluor to provide procurement, engineering and construction management services for its automotive sheet facility in Saudi Arabia.
By Nick Gilbert
3 Aug 2012
Rubicon Technology, a provider of advanced electronic materials such as sapphire substrates and other products to the semiconductor, LED, and optical industries, has reported the allowance of its patent application titled ‘Intelligent Machines and Process for Production of Monocrystalline Products with Goniometer Continual Feedback’ by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
By Nick Gilbert
3 Aug 2012
Specialty chemical company Rhodia, a member of the Solvay Group, and Cobalt Technologies, a developer of advanced bio-based chemicals, have announced that they will jointly develop and operate a biobutanol demonstration plant in Brazil. In Latin America, Brazilian bagasse and other non-food feedstock will be converted into bio n-butanol using Cobalt's technology. Butanol is employed as an industrial chemical in solvents, paints, adhesives and inks.
By G.P. Thomas
3 Aug 2012