The Pennysylvanian facility of Applegate Insulation has received the approval to commercialize and sell Stabilized Cellulose from Applegate in Canada. Through this, the Eastern Provinces will have access to this popular cellulose insulation that has been widely accepted for both manufactured and site-built homes.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Dec 2011
Janco, a plastic fabrication company based in Dover, NH, has enhanced its equipment and technologies to efficiently offer industries such as the foodservice and medical with improved foam fabrication.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Dec 2011
POS Supply Solutions has added ticket paper rolls for moving violation and parking citation tickets to its existing point of sale supply portfolio. The paper is offered in fan-folded and roll formats to satisfy a broad range of applications.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Dec 2011
Reportlinker.com has declared that it has added a new market research report to its offering. The report titled, “US Stretch & Shrink Film Industry” predicts that the Demand in the US for stretch and shrink films will reach $2.4 billion in the year, 2015.
Research and Markets has declared that it has added, "China Foam Plastics Mfg. Industry Profile - CIC3040" report to its catalog.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Dec 2011
A research team led by Xiuling Li, who serves as a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed a low-cost method to fabricate high-aspect-ratio, large-area III-V nanostructures for applications in advanced optoelectronic devices such as lasers and solar cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Dec 2011
ThyssenKrupp VDM and the Julich Research Center have created an enhanced high-performance material called Crofer 22 H for solid oxide fuel cells. The novel material is ready for commercial production through a multi-year project that includes other industrial partners.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Dec 2011
The Solar Atmospheres R&D team has formed a novel hot zone design concept to minimize power losses from the vacuum furnace by 50%. Vacuum furnace engineers have been always concerned about energy losses.
Kobe Steel has collaborated with Jiangsu ALCHA Aluminium, a key Chinese producer of aluminum rolled products in China, in order to expand its Chinese aluminum business. ALCHA and Kobe Steel have decided to form a joint venture in Baotou, Inner Mongolia to manufacture and market sheet and aluminum coil.
Laurel BioComposite finished its continuous initial 30-day production run at its novel pilot facility producing 90,000 lbs. of Bio-Res for customer tests scheduled for December 2011 and January 2012.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Dec 2011
Imec, a Leuven, Belgium-based nanoelectronics research center is collaborating with a subsidiary of Strategic Initiative Materials in Flanders to design innovative semiconductor materials for solar cells. As part of this partnership, innovative materials are screened as a choice for the normal solar cells made of copper indium gallium and selenium (CIGS).
Using plasmonic nanoantenna arrays, Purdue University researchers have demonstrated new ways of accurately manipulating the propagation of light by modifying its phase, opening the door for new class of optical advancements such as powerful computers, telecommunications and microscopes.
GMZ Energy, a company specializing in nanotechnology-based thermoelectric materials, has declared that it has received $14 million through the Series C funding headed by Mitsui Ventures. BP Alternative Energy, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Energy Technology Ventures and I2BF Global Ventures were the other investors.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Dec 2011
Scientists have developed a less-expensive sensor, which can alert the imminent appalling failure in the lithium-ion cells used in the electric and hybrid vehicles, at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Dec 2011
ItN Nanovation, a portfolio company of Nanostart, has announced that its nanocoating product dubbed Nanocomp Metcast has successfully passed field trials conducted by IRKAZ, RUSAL’s aluminum smelter located in Irkutsk, and experts at the Engineering and Technology Center of RUSAL.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Dec 2011