BASF, a chemical company, has announced the acquisition of B.C. Foam’s PET foam business. B.C. Foam is headquartered in Volpiano of Italy. Intellectual property rights, production units and a special extrusion method are included in this company acquisition. The process of special extrusion has enabled the high-performance PET foam production with high densities.
Over 50 years of experience in thermogravimetric analysis at Netzsch stand behind their latest development: the TG 209 F1 Libra thermobalance. This instrument allows for analyses to be carried out even faster and more accurately than ever before, and across an extended temperature range.
CRAIC Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microscopy solutions, joins with Laboratory Imaging, s.r.o., a leading specialist in imaging software solutions for microscopy, to introduce rIQ™: the intelligent solution for the analysis of glass trace evidence.
The full programme has now been finalised for the annual European powder metallurgy congress (Euro PM2012), which will take place in Basel, Switzerland, 16th - 19th September.
Forty members of the Technical Committee...
Lloyd Instruments, a leading manufacturer of materials testing machines, announces a new, high precision universal materials testing machine for testing at forces up to 5 kN/1124 lbf.
Materion has declared that it has purchased Aerospace Metal Composites (AMC) located in Farnborough of England.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012
PPG Industries exhibited new SUNGATE 600 glass samples at the 2012 International Builders Show in Orlando, held from 8 to 11 February, 2012. A dual-coat, dual-pane insulating glass unit (IGU) technology and CLARVISTA shower glass were also displayed.
KEMET has assured and guaranteed its customers that all its tantalum capacitors will be produced from conflict-free tantalum raw materials. This assurance is supported by the recent acquisition of the tantalum capacitor powder production plant from Denham Capital in Carson City, Nevada, U.S.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012
NGS, an importer and supplier of high purity white salt, has chosen a consumer-friendly packaging from RPC Containers UKSC for its pure white marine salt.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012
Theoretical insights of a study conducted by a research team led by Junqiao Wu from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy have explained in detail about the formation of nano-patterns called ‘alien’ crop circles during the annealing of a gold nanolayer over a flat silicon surface.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012
EasyTurf, a distributor of FieldTurf line of landscaping products, has extended its artificial grass product portfolio with the addition of innovative revolution fiber technology.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012
Air Products has announced that it has inked a definitive agreement to buy DuPont’s 50% stake in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials. Terms of the deal were not revealed.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012
A research team from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has found that graphene provides a superior active media for optical modulators.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012
TRW Automotive Holdings, based in Michigan, has announced that it has developed various driver airbag modules using regenerative plastic material that provides numerous benefits to the environment.
Maxwell Technologies is doubling its ultracapacitor electrode production capacity by the end of 2012 by setting up a new production facility in a 123,000-square-foot leased building located in Peoria, Arizona.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Mar 2012