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Shocking Technologies Opens World's First Facility for Voltage Switchable Dielectric Material

Shocking Technologies, Inc., a developer of a breakthrough polymer nano-composite for protecting electronic products from the effects of electrostatic discharge (ESD), announced that it has opened an expanded production ...

10 Dec 2010

GAIL Chooses Shaw to Provide Technology and Engineering for Ethylene Facility in India

The Shaw Group Inc. today announced it has been selected by GAIL (India) Limited (GAIL) to provide its proprietary technology and basic engineering for a new 450,000 tons per annum ethylene plant.

10 Dec 2010

ICL Performance Products to Build Sodium Hexametaphosphate Facility in Kansas

ICL Performance Products, a leading global specialty phosphate producer, today announced it will expand its capacity by building an additional Sodium Hexametaphosphate (SHMP) plant at its Lawrence, Kan. facility. This...

10 Dec 2010

China Shuangji Cement Seeks Permission to Build Cement Facility on Hainan Island

China Shuangji Cement, Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: CSGJ) ("China Shuangji" or the "Company"), a leading producer of high-quality Portland cement in Shandong and Hainan Provinces in the People's Repu...

10 Dec 2010

New York University Professor Uses Yeast to Develop Bioplastic

Dr. Richard Gross, professor of chemical and biological science at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), has developed a method for producing a strong, highly ductile bioplastic using yeast and one of nature's simplest building blocks: fatty acids of plant oils.

10 Dec 2010

NIST to Use World's Most Powerful Computers to Improve Concrete

The Department of Energy (DOE) has just awarded a team of computer scientists, physicists and mathematicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) millions of hours of supercomputing time to analyze concrete flow, in the hope that this common material can be improved.

9 Dec 2010

Visualizing Laser Welding in Real Time with X-Ray Video

On 10th November 2010 a new x-ray video facility was put into operation at the Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW) of the University of Stuttgart. With this equipment it is possible to visualize laser processes in r...

9 Dec 2010

Automated Tube Bender Expands Business Opprtunities for Californian Fabricator

Reducing process steps is the driving factor behind tube bending specialist SF Tube's latest investment in CNC machinery. The San Francisco Bay area fabricator has purchased an all-electric, software-controlled tube ...

From Unison Ltd 9 Dec 2010

Cabot Declare Tantalum Supply Chain Free of Conflict Materials

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) today announced that an independent audit has declared the company's tantalum supply chain free of conflict materials. The audit was conducted by an independent, third party auditor ...

9 Dec 2010

Elsevier to Make Large Numbers of Their Books Available via Google eBooks

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that it is participating in the recently launched Google eBooks store by including a large sel...

From Elsevier - Materials Science & Technology Publisher 9 Dec 2010

UT Researchers Identify High Levels of PBDE Flame Retardants in Plastic Pallets

A study conducted by the University of Texas (UT) School of Public Health showed high levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants in butter samples purchased from five grocery stores in the city of Da...

9 Dec 2010

LDK Solar to Supply Wafers and Polysilicon to Leading Chinese Energy Enterprise

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and PV products, today announced that the Company has entered into a multi-year wafer and polysilicon supply contract with Shanxi Lu'an Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Lu'an Group, a leading Chinese energy enterprise.

9 Dec 2010

Fortress Paper to Buy Bank of Canada's Optical Security Assets

Fortress Paper Ltd. ("Fortress Paper" or the "Corporation") announces the signing of an asset purchase agreement (the "APA"), by its wholly-owned subsidiary Fortress Optical Features Ltd., to acquire the assets of the Bank of Canada's Optical Security Material (OSM) division (the "OSM Assets"), which produces the optically variable security material for the security threads contained in Canadian banknotes.

9 Dec 2010

Research Report on Coatings, Adhesives and Sealants Used in Automotive Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Automotive Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants. US demand to reach $5.6 billion in 2014 US demand for coatings, adhesives a...

From Report Linker 9 Dec 2010

Fox Petroleum Seeks to Process 30 Million Pounds of Scrap Plastics Per Year

Fox Petroleum Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FXPT) announced today that its Canadian subsidiary Resources Polymers Inc. will be up over 100% on its 2009 numbers. "We see growth continuing to expand every month for our servic...

9 Dec 2010