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Global Market Outlook on Acetyls Industry

Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI) announces the completion of the 2011 World Acetyls Analysis, an annual global study that covers historical trends and future projections for supply, demand, production, capacity, and trade of the global acetic acid, vinyl acetate monomer, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, acetic anhydride, cellulose acetate, polyvinyl alcohol industry for the period 2005 to 2015.

21 Jan 2011

Kaiser Permanente Signs Fuel Cell Deal with Bloom Energy to Power California Facilities

Committed to improving the health of the communities it serves, Kaiser Permanente will deploy four megawatts of solid oxide fuel-cell generated power in a deal that will put fuel-cell generators at seven facilities in California by the end of this year.

21 Jan 2011

Scientists Develop Self-Assembling Nanoscale Ropes from Block Copolymers

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach the structural complexity of biolog...

21 Jan 2011

Silicon Oxide Can Act as Switchable Conductor in Computer Chips

In the materials science equivalent of a football fan jumping onto the field and scoring a touchdown, scientists are documenting that one fundamental component of computer chips, long regarded as a passive bystander, can actually be made to act like a switch.

21 Jan 2011

Porvair Filtration Publish Brochure on Sintered Porous Materials for OEMs

Porvair Filtration Group, an international leader in the development and supply of materials and products for filtration and separation, has announced the publication of a new technical brochure describing its range of advanced media and materials for OEM supply.

From Porvair Filtration Group 20 Jan 2011

Borouge Presents Plastic Product Portfolio at PLASTIVISION INDIA

Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, is reinforcing its commitment to the Indian plastics industry by presenting its broad product portfolio at PLASTIVISION INDIA from 20 to 24 Ja...

From Borouge 20 Jan 2011

Dow Corning Joins Industrial R+D Program on GaN Semiconductor Materials

Dow Corning has formalized an agreement to enter the imec multi-partner industrial R&D program on GaN semiconductor materials and device technologies.

From Dow Corning 20 Jan 2011

Granta Design Announce Full Programs for Materials Education Symposia

Granta Design has announced the full program for two Materials Education Symposia in March and April. The agenda has now been finalized by an independent Advisory Committee, made up of academics from leading universities and materials organizations.

From ASM International 20 Jan 2011

Arburg Injection Moulding Machine Pulls Crowds at Arabplast

Arburg exhibited very successfully in Dubai from 8 to 11 January 2011. With a high-speed, thin-walled application, the high-performance Allrounder Hidrive machine was a real crowd-puller and the highlight of the Arabplast 2011.

From Arburg GmbH 20 Jan 2011

Interest in Trade Exhibition Space at NPE2012 Indicates a Strengthening Plasics Industry

Signs of good health for the plastics industry were readily apparent at the recent NPE2012 Drawing for Exhibit Space, as representatives of more than 650 exhibiting companies traveled to the new NPE venue in Orlando, Florida, to select booths for the international plastics exposition.

20 Jan 2011