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Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Announces Refined Custom Metal Fabricating Processes

Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company (GMFCO), a provider of large metal fabrications and large machining for customers across the country, has recently announced refined custom metal fabricating processes to benefit markets such as the oil drilling and exploration, commercial construction, and semiconductor industries.

7 Jan 2011

Rubber Sheet Roll Adds General Purpose Rubber to its Product Line

Rubber Sheet Roll, distributors of commercial and industrial grade rubber products, has added a general purpose rubber to its extensive product offering.

From American Material Supply 7 Jan 2011

Domtar to Begin Three New Energy Conservation Projects at Kamloops Pulp Mill

Domtar Corporation today announced that it will proceed with three projects to improve energy conservation at its Kamloops, British Columbia, pulp mill.

7 Jan 2011

Global Analysis on Terephthalates and Polyester Market

Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI) announces the completion of the 2011 World Terephthalates & Polyester Analysis, an annual global study that covers historical trends and future projections for supply, demand, production, capacity, trade, pricing and profitability of the global terephthalic acid (PTA), dimethyl terephthalate (DMT), polyester polycondensation melt, PET packaging resin, polyester industrial filament, polyester textile filament, polyester bulk continuous filament and polyester staple fiber for the period 2005 to 2015.

7 Jan 2011

Smurfit-Stone Container’s U.S. Paper Mill Seeks Chain-of-Custody Certification

Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation announced today that all of its U.S. paper mills have been recommended for chain-of-custody certification to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative ("SFI"), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification ("PEFC") and Forest Stewardship Council ("FSC") standards.

7 Jan 2011

General Motors Receives License to Use Argonne's Composite Cathode Material

General Motors Co. and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced today they have reached a worldwide licensing agreement to use Argonne's patented composite cathode material to make ad...

7 Jan 2011

Nalco to Sell NALFLEET Marine Chemicals Unit to Norway's Wilhelmsen Ships Service

Nalco providing essential expertise for water, energy and air, announced today it reached a definitive agreement to sell its NALFLEET marine chemicals unit to Norway's Wilhelmsen Ships Service for $41 million.

7 Jan 2011

Researchers Unveil Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Graphene

Artistry from science: Cornell University researchers have unveiled striking, atomic-resolution details of what graphene “quilts” look like at the boundaries between patches, and have uncovered key insights i...

7 Jan 2011

New Crystal Structure Prediction Method Helps to Unveil Neptune’s Excessive Heat Mystery

Stony Brook University Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem Oganov, along with several colleagues, appears to have solved the long-standing mystery of excessive heat on the planet Neptune.

7 Jan 2011

Improve Product Quality and Save Money with the CAMSIZER XT Particle Sizer from HORIBA

The quality control of fine powders ranging from 1 µm to 3 mm can be substantially improved with the new CAMSIZER XT from HORIBA Instruments. The CAMSIZER XT offers more precise and faster analysis of particle size and particle shape helps to improve product quality, save production costs, and eliminates waste.

From HORIBA 7 Jan 2011