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White Mountain Titanium Enters Third LOI Off-Take Agreement to Supply Natural Rutile

White Mountain Titanium Corporation ("White Mountain" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: WMTM) reports that, further to the news release of November 2, 2010, the Company has signed its third Lette...

21 Jan 2011

IDEX Signs Definitive Agreement to Buy Advanced Thin Films

IDEX Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Advanced Thin Films, LLC (ATFilms).

21 Jan 2011

NAT to Begin Shipping of CRAiLAR Flax Fiber from its Kingstree Facility

Naturally Advanced Technologies (OTCBB: NADVF, TSXV: NAT) CEO Ken Barker announced yesterday at the Texworld 2011 Conference in New York that the company is prepared to begin shipping initial orders of CRAiLAR® Flax ...

21 Jan 2011

Siemens Wins Order from Brazilian Steel Producer to Install Mixing and Granulation Systems in Sinter Plants

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies received an order from the Brazilian steel producer Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA (Usiminas) to install two Intensive Mixing and Granulation Systems in sinter plants located at the company's Cubatão and Ipatinga steelworks in southern Brazil.

21 Jan 2011

New Book on Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy in Polymer Analysis

Research and Markets has announced the addition of iSmithers Publishing's new book "Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy in Polymer Analysis" to their offering. The combination of chromatography with mass s...

21 Jan 2011

Callaway Golf Launches New Line of Irons Featuring RAZR Technology

Callaway Golf Company today announced the February 18 retail availability of the new Callaway® RAZR X™ line of irons, which includes the RAZR X, RAZR X Tour and RAZR X Forged irons. Callaway's new RAZR platform of products represents the Company's most premium technology offerings, and the RAZR X line has been designed to provide consistent distance and accuracy through the set for tighter shots, shorter putts and lower scores.

21 Jan 2011

Mascotte to Buy Controlling 50.1% Stake of Taiwan-Based Sun Materials

Mascotte Holdings Limited ("Mascotte" or the "Company"; stock code 136.HK) is pleased to announce that it will acquire a controlling 50.1% stake of Sun Materials, a Taiwan-based polycrystalline silico...

21 Jan 2011

OCI Awards $33.3 Million Order to GT Solar for Sapphire Crystallization Furnaces

GT Solar International, Inc. a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets, today announced that it has received a $33.3 million order from South Korea-based OCI Company, Ltd. for its sapphire crystallization furnaces.

21 Jan 2011

Japanese Researchers Create New Antireflective Moth-Eye Film to Cover Solar Cells

The eyes of moths, which allow them to see well at night, are also covered with a water-repellent, antireflective coating that makes their eyes among the least reflective surfaces in nature and helps them hide from preda...

21 Jan 2011

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