A specialty chemicals supplier, Clariant has signed a long-term agreement with KitoZyme, a biopolymer producer, to provide innovative white biotechnology products to meet the needs of the personal care industry.
An international research team has discovered a small diamond planet in the Milky Way that was once a massive star.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Aug 2011
PPG Industries, one of the world’s leading coatings and specialty products companies, and Harsha Exito Engineering (India) have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to form a fiber glass joint venture (JV) in India.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Aug 2011
Tata Steel is now free to bring ZnX, a new zinc-coated boron steel product, to the market, which is enabled by a patent ruling by the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office.
Dr. Montserrat Rabago-Smith from Kettering University and her team are working to develop a biodegradable material for bone re-growth. Several traumatic bone injuries can be repaired, but the current procedures need multiple surgeries and a long-time to recover. Hence, researchers are analyzing the use of a magnesium alloy material to heal and regenerate the damaged bone.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
A new line of industrial lubricants, EvoShield has been launched by Amyris at the Infineon Raceway of Sonoma’s summit. The industrial lubraicant will be formulated by the renewably-sourced synthetic base oil, NovaSpec.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
Honeywell Company, UOP has been awarded an order from Jiangsu Haili Chemical Industry to provide process technologies for producing phenol, cumene and propylene.
PPG Industries, one of the world’s leading coatings and specialty products companies, announced that its automotive refinish business has unveiled a new wet-on-wet clearcoat with superfast air-dry capability.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
One of the world’s leading packaging product suppliers, Crown has planned to continue its business expansion in China to support a strong market growth.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
Objet’s new three-dimensional printing materials has been selected and deployed by an UK-based prototyping service bureau, IPF. The firm has used both ABS-like and clear transparent materials at its Nazeing office.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
Borealis, a plastics company, announced that it will display some of its novel products and solutions at the FAKUMA 2011, an international fair for plastics processing, which is to be held in Friedrichshafen, Germany from October 18 to 22.
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has inked a six-year deal with Dow Kokam to augment its capabilities for development and commercialization of sophisticated lithium ion batteries.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
This high resolution spectrometer for emission, luminescence, Raman (strained Silicon), and high temperature plasmas easily measures better than 0.02 nanometer full width half maximum spectra. McPherson’s high resolution spectrometer, Model 2061, is now available for scanning and imaging applications via two dimensional CCD or CMOS detectors. The one meter focal length spectrometer features bilaterally adjustable slits, multiple entrance and exit port locations, and high precision wavelength drive for unparallel reproducibility. Capability to mount large, high angle Echelle type diffraction gratings is built in. The large, 50mm wide focal plane is readily accessible.
Carpenter Technology Corporation announced today that it will construct a new 400,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in response to strong customer demand for premium products primarily in the fast-growing aerospace and energy industries. The new facility will ultimately be capable of producing approximately 27,000 tons per year of additional premium product and is part of Carpenter's ongoing commitment to expand capacity, reduce lead times, and improve customer service.
The Cabot Corp has entered into an agreement to sell its Supermetals business to Global Advanced Metals, GAM, for a minimum of $400 million in total cash consideration, company officials announced today. The transaction ...