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Research Report on Metals Industry in South Africa

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "South Africa Metals Report Q1 2011" report to their offering. Business Monitor International's South Africa Metals Report provides industry profes...

18 Feb 2011

Engineering Team Bags Third National Award for Research in Clean Energy

A team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering undergraduate students received national honors Wednesday for the third time in the past year for their research aimed at generating hydrogen and developing clean, affordable fuel cells to generate electricity.

18 Feb 2011

Royal DSM Inks Agreement to Buy Majority Share in Shandong ICD High Performance Fibre

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire the majority shareholding in Shandong ICD High Performance Fibre Co Ltd. ("ICD"), based in Laiwu, Shandong province, China. Closing of this transaction is expected in the course of 2011.

18 Feb 2011

Avnet Electronics Signs Global Distribution Agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics

Avnet Electronics Marketing, a business group of Avnet, Inc. has signed a global distribution agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd, one of the world's largest manufacturers of advanced electronics components.

18 Feb 2011

Bud Announces New Aluminum Enclosure Featuring Double-Channel Sealing System

Bud Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer of electronics enclosures, has announced an innovative die-cast aluminum enclosure that provides superior EMI/RFI protection and an IP67/NEMA 4X waterproof seal for up to half the cost of the leading competing product.

18 Feb 2011

Steel Technologies Signs MOU to Buy Business of NuPro Steel

Steel Technologies LLC today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire the business and certain assets of NuPro Steel, LLC (NuPro), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nucor Corporation (Nucor).

18 Feb 2011

New Book on Conjugated Polymer Synthesis

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Conjugated Polymer Synthesis: Methods and Reactions" to their offering. Edited and authored by top international ex...

18 Feb 2011

Myriant Signs MOU with Davy to Integrate Succinic Acid and Butanediol Technologies

Myriant Technologies (Myriant) and Davy Process Technology (Davy), a Johnson Matthey company, announce that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering the use of succinic acid as a bio-derived feedstock for the production of butanediol, tetrahydrofuran and gamma-butyrolactone.

18 Feb 2011

Eastman to Present Paper on Formulating Non-Phthalate Plasticizers at PVC Formulation Conference

Dr. Martin Stimpson, Eastman Chemical Company, will be presenting the paper Formulating non-phthalate plasticizers for specialty plastisol applications at 9:40 a.m. on Thurs., Feb. 17, during Session 4 – Plasticizers during the PVC Formulation Conference at the Maritim Hotel, Düsseldorf, Germany.

18 Feb 2011