US-based Fishery Products International (FPI), a division of High Liner Foods, is to use recycled fibre- based Kraft packaging for its products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Oct 2011
Chinese petrochemical company, Yantai Wanhua Polyurethane has chosen Honeywell’s wholly owned subsidiary, UOP to supply its UOP C3 Oleflex process technology, absorbents and catalysts for the production of propylene at its manufacturing facility located in Yantai, China.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Oct 2011
Online research website, Research and Markets, has released a report titled, “Natural Fibre Composites Market Trend 2011-2016: Trend, Forecast and Opportunity Analysis”.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Oct 2011
The Northwestern University researchers have created a novel electronic material that can reconfigure itself based on changing computational requirements.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Oct 2011
Industrial Nanotech’s Indian distributor, Angstrom Technology has informed that the company’s customer Seshasayee Paper & Boards has delivered a presentation titled, ‘Energy Conservation Using Nanotechnology Based Insulation Coating in Paper Machine Dryer at Seshasayee Paper,’ at Papertech 2011.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Oct 2011
The flat glass business division of PPG Industries, a major supplier of coatings and specialty products, has proclaimed that its facility located in Barrie, Ontario, will start production in January 2012.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Oct 2011
QuantuMDx Group proclaimed that it has entered into an exclusive license deal with Nanosys for various patents and patent applications covering the utilization of nanostructures in biosensors.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Oct 2011
The AVS 58th International Symposium & Exhibition will be held Oct. 30 - Nov. 4, 2011, at the Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. More than 1,200 talks will be delivered on cutting-edge issues covering ne...
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and Springer officially announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, "Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation" or "IMMI", this week ...
Bayer MaterialScience LLC has developed a new class of stronger composite materials in response to the wind power industry's move toward developing and manufacturing longer, larger, more productive wind blades.
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Virginia Commonwealth University has received a contract totaling $2.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, ARPA-E, to develop and design a new class of permanent magnets to be used in energy-efficient electric car motors or generators.
Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a thermoplastic polyester which occurs naturally in bacteria as Ralstonia eutropha and Bacillus megaterium. Even though PHB is biodegradable and is not dependent on fossil resources, this ...
Formulators of waterborne and UV coatings can now consistently achieve good spreading and wetting - even at low addition levels - thanks to a new family of Dow Corning brand superwetting additives effective on difficult-...
Chinese steel producer Shanxi Zhongyang Iron and Steel Company Ltd. (ZISCO) contracted with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to add a high-speed mini finishing mill to each of its three rod mills. This will almost double the mills' production speed.
A research group led by ETH Zurich has now, for the first time, visualized the motion of electrons during a chemical reaction. The new findings in the experiment are of fundamental importance for photochemistry and could...