AK Steel has upgraded its specialty steel businesses by adding a new ladle metallurgy furnace and electric arc furnace to its Butler Works plant in Pennsylvania.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Mar 2011
Dan DiMicco, Chairman and CEO of Nucor, along with Economic Development Secretary, Stephen Moret and Governor Bobby Jindal celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for new direct reduced iron (DRI) processing plant.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Mar 2011
NOVA Chemicals has entered into a MOU agreement to deliver ethane from Caiman Energy’s Fort Beeler plant, a gas processing facility, in Marcellus Shale to Sarnia, Ontario petrochemical market.
Major coal supplier, Alpha Natural Resources has done a strategic equity investment in CERATECH, a Virginia-based producer of ‘green cement’, which reduces CO2 emissions and landfill requirements from the cement manufacturing method. The green cement uses 95% of waste fly ash, a by-product of coal combustion, from electric utilities.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Mar 2011
Provider of nanotechnology-based energy conserving solutions, Industrial Nanotech has proclaimed that it will supply its patented Nansulate coating material to an industrial boiler producer. The latter will apply the Nansulate protective coating on new devices.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Mar 2011
Supplier of automotive restoration tools, Eastwood has unveiled a portable, economical and turnkey DIY power equipment called the Eastwood engineered Versa-Cut Plasma Cutter to cut aluminum, stainless steel and steel materials neatly.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Mar 2011
Producer of industrial rolls and textiles for the paper production procedures, Xerium Technologies has introduced a new line of technologically improved roll cover products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Mar 2011
Pall has announced that it will display sophisticated filtration products to facilitate lab procedures at the Pittcon Conference and Expo 2011 to be conducted from 13 to 18 March 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Mar 2011
Market research and consulting company, Lucintel has released a new market research report on worldwide composites industry titled ‘Growth Opportunities in the Global Composites Industry 2011-2016’.
They secure tiny electronic components as well as huge wind turbines. They hold both car bodies and trains together. Modern adhesives almost do wonders. “Adhesive bonding has become a key technology in many industrial sectors,” says Oliver Kutsch, CEO of Ceresana Research. The market research institute has scrutinized the European adhesive market from top to bottom.
“The future pricing of bauxite and alumina should reflect the fundamentals of the value chain,” Executive Vice President Johnny Undeli said in Metal Bulletin’s Bauxite and Alumina Conference in Miami this week.
A newly published article demonstrates the effectiveness of combining laser diffraction and automated particle imaging (including Raman spectroscopy) in the characterization of nasal spray products.
Ball, provider of ultra-quality packaging for household, food and beverage products, has inked a deal with Thai Beverage Can (TBC) to construct a production facility for beverage cans in Vietnam.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Mar 2011
Tailored-engineered sealing solutions provider for analytical sciences and lab instruments, Bal Seal Engineering is producing 30,000 psi seals for the future-generation of high pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) pumps.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Mar 2011
Global supplier of ultra-performance materials and chemistries, Avantor Performance Materials, has proclaimed that it has formally changed the brand name of its chemical products from Mallinckrodt Chemicals to Macron Chemicals.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Mar 2011