EMSL Analytical, a leading materials testing laboratory with more than 39 locations across the U.S. and Canada, has expanded its Charlotte, North Carolina laboratory space by shifting to a new location that lies between Interstate 485 and Interstate 77.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
American Manganese, a diversified specialty metal company, announced that the testing work has begun at a new pilot plant constructed by Kemetco Research to confirm and expand the conceptual process.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products has signed a distribution agreement with Dichem Chemicals and IMCD Group for its Zemea propanediol. Dichem Chemicals will be responsible for Zemea distribution in Greece and IMCD Group has been selected as a distributor for Italy.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
Maine Plastics has been hired as the official recycler for NPE2012, an international plastics exhibition to be conducted from 1 to 5 April 2012, by the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), a plastic industry trade association.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
China Ceramics has declared that the capacity expansion is complete at its Hengda facility, which can now manufacture 42 million sq m of ceramic tiles annually, up from 28 million sq m in the fiscal year 2010 and an increase from 32 million sq m in the second quarter of 2011.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
Spire has proclaimed that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a patent titled, ‘Nanophotovoltaic Devices,’ to the company. Global solar firm, Spire offers turn-key production lines and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
The United States Mint has awarded a $1.3 million competitively bid contract to Concurrent Technologies to research and develop cost-effective alternative metals for the manufacturing of all circulating coins.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Aug 2011
Borealis and Borouge will display their capabilities to provide dedicated materials that meet the rigorous requirements of the healthcare industry by offering extended technical support, quality control procedures, special production actions and regulatory compliance at ICSE 2011.
Sumitomo Chemical has established a joint venture (JV) with Jilin Xindongtai Engineering Plastics to manufacture and vend polypropylene (PP) compounds for automotive uses.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Aug 2011
QD Vision, a privately-held company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, has recently received a development project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Aug 2011
Ozone systems from ITT, a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company, has signed a $9.2 million contract for the supply of ozone systems to the Fibria pulp and paper mill’s expansion project in Jacarei, Brazil.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Aug 2011
Airbus announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with VSMPO-AVISMA, a major supplier for Airbus, to manufacture and supply value-added titanium products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Aug 2011
Electrovaya, a designer, developer and manufacturer of proprietary Lithium Ion SuperPolymer batteries, battery energy storage systems, and battery-related products, has received an order to deliver a 1.2 MWh lithium ion Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for a clean energy generation demonstration program in Ontario.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Aug 2011
Scientists from the universities of Harvard and Stanford have developed a novel organic semiconductor material that is 30 folds quicker than amorphous silicon currently utilized for the production of liquid crystal displays for computer monitors and flat panel televisions.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Aug 2011
North Carolina State University researchers have devised a simple and large-scale method to arrange gold nanorods utilizing electrospun polymer dubbed ‘nano/microfibers.’
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Aug 2011