PFB, a company specialized in manufacturing insulating building products, has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with NOVA Chemicals, a developer and manufacturer of plastic resins, chemicals and end-products, to acquire NOVA Chemicals’ Performance Styrenics business. The acquisition includes ARCEL resin products and the expandable polystyrene (EPS) resins.
By G.P. Thomas
11 May 2012
A new market research report titled, "Indian Paint Industry Forecast to 2015", has been released by Reportlinker.com.
Siemens will demonstrate the benefits offered by its products, systems, technologies and services to the process industry at the Achema 2012 international exhibition, which will be held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany from June 18 to June 22.
By G.P. Thomas
11 May 2012
Worldwide Superabrasives (WWSA), a manufacturer and provider of cubic boron nitride (CBN) and industrial diamond products, and BESCO Superabrasives, have reported that they are extending the manufacturing plant in Kaifeng, China.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
Hydromer had reported that the company has signed license agreements with three medical device manufacturers based in China.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
Flotek Industries has signed a contract with Pioneer Natural Resources Pumping Services to supply bulk chemicals.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
A research team from the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy has created a new electrocatalyst using low-cost materials for the production of clean hydrogen gas from water.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
In a paper, ‘Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice,’ reported in the Physical Review Letters journal, a team of scientists from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) has for the first time explained about a mystifying water anomaly in ice.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
Nanoco Group, which develops and produces nanomaterials such as cadmium-free quantum dots, has announced the successful production of a batch of 1 kg green cadmium-free quantum dots for a key company based in Japan, generating $2million in revenues for Nanoco.
By Nick Gilbert
11 May 2012
PTC Alliance’s subsidiary, Enduro Industries has extended its license exclusivity term for Nanovate CoP, a nanocrystalline cobalt electroplating process developed by Integran Technologies, in the US market for fluid power by five more years.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012
An agitation is created on the micro scale by a strong laser pulse, when interacted with an atom. This results in single ionization, from which one electron is expelled out from the atom. Similarly, removal of two electrons from an atom leads to the complexity of double ionization process.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 May 2012
Anglo American Platinum, a producer of platinum group metals and Ballard Power Systems, a provider of clean energy fuel cell products are engaged in developing several early-stage motive and stationary uses of zero-emission, clean fuel cells in the South African market sector.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012
An international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins, A. Schulman, has planned to showcase its latest plastic product innovations at the Plast 2012 exhibition, which will be held in Milan, Italy from May 8 to 12.
By G.P. Thomas
10 May 2012
Asynt has supplied a leading European Contract Research Organisation (CRO) with a custom heating block system to assist chemists analysing the thermal stability of multiple samples being prepared for its commercial compound libraries.
ARBURG, a manufacturer of injection moulding machines, has launched a new website to reach the global customers through its information offerings and contacts.
By Nick Gilbert
10 May 2012