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RockTenn Enters Definitive Agreement to Buy Smurfit-Stone Container

RockTenn and Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation today announced that the Boards of Directors of both companies have approved a definitive agreement under which Smurfit-Stone will become a wholly owned subsidiary of RockTenn.

24 Jan 2011

Clean Membranes Secures Funding to Develop Non-Fouling Membranes

Clean Membranes Inc, a New England based start-up developing a new generation of non-fouling membranes, announced today that it has concluded its Series A round of financing. The proceeds will be used primarily to tak...

24 Jan 2011

Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports Commends LCIA Tribunal's Decision

The Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports welcomed today's London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) ruling that subsidies provided by the Ontario and Quebec governments to lumber manufacturers in their provinces ...

24 Jan 2011

Eastern Goldfields Completes Spin-Off of Vantage Goldfields

Eastern Goldfields, Inc. ("EGI") today announced the completion of its previously announced spin-off of Vantage Goldfields Limited ("VGO"), a gold mining and exploration company domiciled in Australia...

24 Jan 2011

Universal Steel Buildings Helps to Re-Build Keystone Foam's Manufacturing Plant in Pennsylvania

On August 2nd of 2007, a massive fire destroyed a 160,000 sq. ft. family owned manufacturing facility, Keystone Foam of Derry, PA, a small town east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

24 Jan 2011

Global Strategic Business Report on Hydrogen Peroxide Industry

Worldwide consumption of hydrogen peroxide increased considerably in the recent years due to growth in paper and pulp industry, specifically in Southeast Asia, China, and Latin America. However, the market growth was ...

24 Jan 2011

Celanese Partners with Chinese Synthesis Gas Supplier

Celanese Corporation a global technology and specialty materials company, announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Wison (China) Holding Co., Ltd., a Chinese synthesis gas supplier, for production of certain feedstocks used in Celanese’s advanced ethanol production process.

From Celanese Corporation 24 Jan 2011

Zero Emission Energy Plants Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire TX Energy

Zero Emission Energy Plants Ltd. (ZEEP) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Eastman Chemical Company Investments, Inc., to purchase all of the membership interests of TX Energy, LLC (TXE).

24 Jan 2011

Ameron International Announces Plans to Build New Steel Pole Plant in Oklahoma

Ameron International Corporation today announced plans to construct a new steel pole plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

24 Jan 2011

Specialty Minerals Signs Agreement to Construct Satellite Precipitated Calcium Carbonate Plant in India

Minerals Technologies Inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Specialty Minerals Inc., has entered into a long-term agreement with The West Coast Paper Mills Limited to build and operate a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant at West Coast's flagship pulp and paper mill at Dandeli, India. Dandeli is on the Kali River in the western state of Karnataka.

From Minerals Technologies Inc. 24 Jan 2011

Catalyst Leads to Higher Mol. Weight Polyethylene Carbonate

Empower Materials of New Castle Delaware has developed a new breakthrough catalyst to synthesize Polyethylene carbonate (PEC), known as QPAC 25. The new catalyst provides the ability to make higher molecular weight QPAC ...

From Empower Materials 23 Jan 2011

Elastomeric Robotic Arm with Gentle Grip

It looks like a starfish made of soft plastic. When air is blown into it through a thin tube it comes to life and the starfish closes like a hand. It does this so gently that it can grasp a raw egg without breaking it.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 23 Jan 2011

New Technology Forums at SPE ANTEC to Explore Plastics Innovation

Three New Technology Forums at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC 2011 conference will explore plastics innovations with potential to advance the state of the art in alternate energy systems, healthcare, and p...

23 Jan 2011

Russian Steelmaker to Develop Coal Deposit in the Komi Republic

NLMK has won the right to develop the third mining area in the Usinsk coal deposit (Usinks-3) located in the north of the Komi Republic. NLMK was selected following a competition organized by the Subsoil Agency of the Ko...

23 Jan 2011

UK-Based Steel Supplier Now Supplies into over 70 Countries

Birmingham based steel stockholder, Masteel UK Ltd, has benefitted from an increased global online presence for the supply of their high quality steel stock range.

From Masteel UK Ltd 23 Jan 2011