Baosteel, an integrated steel company in China, has recently started supplying black color coated plate designed for home appliance application in bulk to a major household electrical appliance firm in Japan. This bulk order highlights the enhancement in the superiority and quality stability of Baosteel's product and its international competitiveness.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Mar 2012
carbonLITE, a manufacturer of bottle-grade raw material for producing new bottles, has announced the official opening of its bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling plant in Riverside, California.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Mar 2012
Beijing PlasChem Trading has inked a definitive agreement to establish a joint venture with one of the subsidiaries of Nexeo Solutions, a provider of chemicals, composites, plastics and environmental services.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Mar 2012
3M has launched a new liquid degreaser or cleaner, 3M Adhesive Remover – Renew, made using bio-based, eco-friendly raw materials. This new cleaner is made up of 60% of renewable materials and offers a new option to remove the adhesive effectively.
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.
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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