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Everlast Announces First Installation of Composite Siding on a Home in New England

Everlast polymeric siding was developed by Norandex building products, one of the largest US distributors of building products, over the course of several years, and has been distributed and installed in other markets in...

From Everlast 27 Oct 2010

AERT Invites North American MoistureShield Customers for Upcoming Builders Show

Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc., will be hosting representatives from its North American Network of MoistureShield Distributors and Dealers in a series of meetings and plant tours this week at its Springdale, AR headquarters.

27 Oct 2010

Adept Technology Launches New Platform for Food Packaging at Pack Expo 2010

Adept Technology, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, will showcase their two newest products at the Pack Expo 2010 show next week.

27 Oct 2010

Alcoa Introduces New Ways to Recycle Aluminum Cans

Alcoa announced today the launch of a free, user-friendly iPhone application compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that will make it fun and easy for consumers to recycle aluminum cans.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 27 Oct 2010

Laurentide Paint Provides Voc-Free Colorants to Consumers in Canada

Laurentide Paint announces a huge leap forward in favour of the environment by becoming the first paint manufacturer in Canada to use colorants free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in all corporate product lines. ...

27 Oct 2010

Magnetic Fingerprint Method to Find Electricity Loss on Plastic Solar Cells

Scientists have been working on organic solar cells for about a decade. Their manufacture is environmentally friendly and they can be applied to all kinds of materials, such as plastic film, for instance. The trouble ...

27 Oct 2010

Global Market Research Report on Emulsion Polymers

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World Emulsion Polymers Market Global demand to rise 5.2% annually through 2014 World demand for emulsion polymers is fore...

From Report Linker 27 Oct 2010

On-Line Particle Size Analysis Improves Automated Milling Efficiency

A recently published paper from Malvern Panalytical, jointly authored with an expert from the aluminium industry, considers how best to exploit on-line particle size analysis to automate and improve milling efficiency, towards more cost-efficient operation. ‘Automated control of the milling circuit’ includes research that illustrates how automated control on the basis of real-time particle size measurement using the Malvern Panalytical Insitec online analyzer simultaneously improves product quality and reduces energy consumption.

From Malvern Panalytical 27 Oct 2010

University of Oklahoma Secures Funding for New Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering

A University of Oklahoma research team recently received a $2.9 million grant from the Department of Energy Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research to establish a new Center for Interfacial Reaction Engine...

27 Oct 2010

Researchers Create Band Gap in Graphene Using Water Molecules

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the band gap of the nanomaterial graphene, opening the door to new graphene-based transistors and nanoelectronics.

27 Oct 2010

Gaizhou Gas Industry and NF Energy Saving Partner for Biomass Gas Supply Project

NF Energy Saving Corp. (Nasdaq: NFEC) ("NF Energy" or the "Company"), a leading energy saving services provider for China's power, petrochemical, coal, metallurgy, construction, and municipa...

27 Oct 2010

Analysis on Global Demand for Magnetic Materials

The recent global economic crisis resulted in a short-term slump in the global magnetic materials market during 2008-09. The future, however, remains sanguine for magnetic materials with several countries showing sign...

27 Oct 2010

LTR Products Donates Pinnacle Rubber Mulch for Ronald McDonald House Playground Renovation Project

LTR Products, a subsidiary of Liberty Tire Recycling and manufacturers of Pinnacle Rubber Mulch, has recently formed a partnership with a Boy Scout in Bangor, Maine who is working to make a local playground safer for the children who play on it.

27 Oct 2010

Granite Shield Introduces Custom Stone Seal for Countertops

Granite Shield is introducing its DIY Custom Stone Seal program. Due to the great demand for Granite Shield in areas of the country that they do not have authorized Granite Shield applicators, Granite Shield is introduci...

27 Oct 2010

Kraft Foods Joins with ASI-Henkel Alliance for Adhesives

In an industry first, alliance partners Adhesive Systems Inc. (ASI) and Henkel today announced a new joint initiative with Kraft Foods that will support minority owned suppliers within the consumer packaged goods industr...

27 Oct 2010