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Graphic Packaging Announces Approval for Biomass Usage Expansion in Macon Mill

Graphic Packaging International, Inc. (GPI), a subsidiary of Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), recently announced that it has approved a plan to expand utilization of biomass energy in its Macon, Ga., paperb...

13 Dec 2010

Kaman Aerospace Purchases Global Aerosystems

Kaman Corporation (NASDAQ-GS: KAMN) today announced that its subsidiary Kaman Aerospace Group, Inc. has completed the previously announced acquisition of Global Aerosystems, LLC (Global) of Everett, Washington. The t...

From Kaman Corporate 13 Dec 2010

Lucite International to Recommence Methyl Methacrylate Production at Beaumont Facility

Lucite International, Inc. announced today that it will re-start the production of Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) at its Beaumont, Texas facility in the first quarter of 2011. Lucite will produce MMA at a reduced rate through...

13 Dec 2010

New Report on Sub-Saharan African Polyurethane Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Sub-Saharan African Market for Polyurethane" to their offering. This service covers the sub-Saharan African polyurethane market, e...

13 Dec 2010

Newave Packaging to Provide Non-Toxic Ewrap Food Film to Oneota Community

Safetek International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: SFIN) an incubator of and investor in green technology and Eco-Friendly start-up companies, announced today that Oneota Community Food Co-op, a natural food Co-op has purchased t...

13 Dec 2010

GSME’s Shareholders Approve Reorganization with Plastec International Holdings

GSME Acquisition Partners I (OTCBB: GSMXF, GSMEF, GSMWF) (“GSME”), a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of acquiring an operating business having its primary business operations in the...

13 Dec 2010

Dow Electronic Materials Starts Construction of New Eastern China Manufacturing Facility

Dow Electronic Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, broke ground on its new Eastern China manufacturing facility.

13 Dec 2010

Trelleborg Announces Establishment of New Operation in India

Trelleborg has decided to establish a new operation in Bangalore, in India, to capitalize even more effectively on the future growth in the country, mainly among customers in telecom infrastructure sector and industrial antivibration.

13 Dec 2010

New Market Research Report on Chinese Polyisobutylene Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Chinese Markets for Polyisobutylene. China's demand for Polyisobutylene has grown at a fast pace in the past decade. In t...

From Report Linker 13 Dec 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Enters Multi-Year Exclusive License for Electronic Glue Chemistry

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink"), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that it had formed a wholly owned subsidiary called BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. ("BlackBox"), and that BlackBox has entered into a worldwide multi-year exclusive license with the University of Chicago, licensing work based on Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dmitri Talapin's "electronic glue" chemistry.

13 Dec 2010

TenCate Aerospace Provides Composite Materials for Superbus Construction

The Superbus by Prof. Dr. Ockels is officially presented at the start of the Millionaire Fair on Thursday 9 December in the RAI Congress Centre in Amsterdam.

From Toray Advanced Composites 13 Dec 2010

Global Analysis on Advanced Packaging Market for Food and Beverage Industry

The 'Global Active & Smart Packaging Market Trends, Forecast & Applications in Food and Beverage Industry' analyzes the advanced packaging market by technology and applications and studies the major market driver...

13 Dec 2010

Koppers to Acquire Portec's Rail Joint Business

Koppers Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc., announced that it has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire the Rail Joint business product line and related manufacturing facility of Portec Rail Products, Inc. ("Portec") for an undisclosed purchase price.

From Koppers Inc. 13 Dec 2010

ThyssenKrupp Inaugurate New Steelmaking and Processing Plant in Alabama

Following a three-year construction period, the new steelmaking and processing plant of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA and ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA in the southeastern USA was officially opened today. "With the startup of the plant in Alabama and the launch of the steel mill in Brazil in the summer

13 Dec 2010

Pyrroles Used to Contruct New Nanostructured Materials

Pyrroles, which are rings containing one nitrogen and four carbon atoms, are essential components of our red hemoglobin as well as the green chlorophyll in plants. Japanese researchers led by Hiromitsu Maeda at Risumeikan University have now also used this molecular motif in the construction of new nanostructured materials.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 13 Dec 2010