Bredero Shaw, ShawCor's largest division and a provider of pipe coating solutions, has signed a US$400 million contract with Mitsui to offer pipeline coatings and associated technologies and services for the Ichthys LNG Project, a joint venture between Total and INPEX.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
15 Feb 2012
Air Liquide Large Industries US, a provider of industrial gases and related services, has commenced the operation of a new air separation unit (ASU), which is located at its site in Geismar, Louisiana.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
15 Feb 2012
A newly redesigned forging press of Alcoa, a producer of primary and fabricated aluminum, has started operation at Cleveland Works in Ohio. The company has invested $100 million to redesign and upgrade the 50,000 t forging press.
Precision Coating, a Katahdin company and one of the world’s largest plastics coating applicators, announced that it has partnered with Medi-Solve Coatings, a provider of lubricious, hydrophobic and hydrophilic coatings for medical device and biomedical applications.
Vorbeck Materials has won the Department of Energy (DOE)’s award for top innovators. The company is one among the three winners of America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge, a competition conducted by DOE.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
15 Feb 2012
Ensysce Biosciences has reported the latest data on its delivery technology for short interfering RNA (siRNA) for therapeutic applications in the Materials journal.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
15 Feb 2012
A microscopic study led by An-Ping Li from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the Department of Energy has demonstrated that single atoms can turn on or off electronic properties of quantum nanowires, the tiniest recognized conductors of the world.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
15 Feb 2012
Lucifer Furnaces, Inc. recently delivered a single chamber bench model box furnace to Power Plant Services, an ISO 9001certified provider of parts and repairs for the power generation and steel mill industries.
Andreas Römpp and Sabine Guenther receive the ABC Best Paper Award 2011 for their innovative work on high-resolution mass spectrometry imaging techniques.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, released its 2012-2013 Thermo Scientific Chromatography Columns and Consumables catalog.
MACOR® machinable glass ceramic from Goodfellow offers researchers, product designers and machinists cost-saving advantages over working with traditional ceramic materials.
Cement producer Sacci S.p.A. is using an Insitec on-line laser diffraction particle size analyzer from Malvern Panalytical at its site in Tavernola, Italy
Kyle A. Crum, Technology Manager for Alcoa Defense, has presented a paper on the use of aluminum alloys in modern naval designs at the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) show held in Arlington, Virginia.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe announced that a new chemcoater integrated to coil-coating line 3 has started operation at its manufacturing facility located in Siegerland, Germany. The equipment considerably enhances workflows on the coating line and also contributes to the environmental safety.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
14 Feb 2012
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies announced that it has secured an order for a new compact steelmaking plant from a Mexican steel producer, Talleres y Aceros (Tyasa). The new plant will be located at Tyasa’s Ixtaczoquitlan site and will have a production capacity of 1.2 million tons of low-, medium- and high-carbon steel annually.