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Quaker Chemical Upgrades Metalworking Fluid for an Automotive Customer

Demonstrating a proactive approach to continuous improvement, a joint effort was undertaken by Quaker Chemical (NYSE: KWR) and an automotive customer to upgrade the metalworking fluid in a major automotive engine plant t...

17 Sep 2010

Minerals Technologies to Expand Paper Mill in Thailand

Minerals Technologies Inc., (NYSE: MTX) announced todaythat it has signed an agreement with Double A (1991) Public Company Ltd., formerly Advance Agro Public Company Ltd., to expand production capacity of precipitated ca...

From Minerals Technologies Inc. 17 Sep 2010

New Energy Technologies Demonstrates SolarWindow Coating Technology at USF

New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE) debuts its SolarWindow™ technology today during a demonstration at the University of South Florida (USF). This first-of-its-kind, spray-on technology is capable of tra...

17 Sep 2010

Global Polypropylene Demand to Rise 4.6%

Global Polypropylene Market is Expected to Grow at a Healthy Rate from 2009 to 2020.The global polypropylene demand was 26.6 million tons in the year 2000. It grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 3.6% from the...

17 Sep 2010

Applied Nanotech Wins SBIR Grant for Manufacturing Printable Ink Materials

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:APNT) announced that it has been awarded a Phase III SBIR grant, in the amount of $1.6 million, from the US Department of Energy to establish a pilot production facility to manufact...

17 Sep 2010

New Series of Roll Covers from Xerium Technologies

Xerium Technologies, Inc., a leading global manufacturer of industrial textiles and rolls used primarily in the paper production process, today announced full commercial availability of a technologically advanced new series of roll cover products designed for improved machine performance, better wear and longer, more efficient product life.

17 Sep 2010

Versatile Packagers Opens New Facility in Florida

Tampa-based contract packaging company, Versatile Packagers, plans to open the doors to a new 85,000 square foot facility in July of 2011. The company recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new building, whi...

17 Sep 2010

Aluminum Producer UC RUSAL Provides Details of CEO’s Lecture at Presidential Forum

UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, EuroNext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world's largest aluminium producer, is pleased to announce details of CEO Oleg Deripaska's lecture - 'The Power of Focus: Turning Opportunity into Success' ...

17 Sep 2010

Aluminum Cans Offer Three-Fold Benefits for Breweries

The sound of beers being cracked open across the country is because more breweries are switching to aluminum cans. In fact, according to BeerNews.org, 40 U.S. states are home to at least one craft brewery packaging in...

17 Sep 2010

BEX Asia 2010 to Feature A*STAR’s New Fire Retardant Material and Other Innovations

Designed for green buildings, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s eco-friendly halogen and toxic gas-free flame retardant and fire-proof additive prevents the spread of fire by forming a blan...

17 Sep 2010

Analysis on Formic Acid, Acetic Acid and Metacetonic Acid Markets in China

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Chinese Markets for Formic Acid, Acetic Acid and Metacetonic Acid http://www.reportlinker.com/p0138585/Chinese-Markets-for-Fo...

From Report Linker 17 Sep 2010

TU Vienna Team Produces Rotating Electron Beams to Analyse Nanomaterials

Prof. Schattschneider from Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), together with colleagues from Belgium, is developing a method of producing rotating electron beams and is publishing the technology in the scientific journal "Nature".

17 Sep 2010

Shiner International Receives Patent for Bi-Axially Oriented Polypropylene Film

Shiner International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEST) ("Shiner" or the "Company"), an emerging global supplier of anti-counterfeiting and advanced packaging products, today announced that it has received its sixt...

17 Sep 2010

Woodhead Publishing Sets Up Office in the US

Woodhead Publishing Limited, based in Cambridge, UK has announced the setting up of a new office in the United States, in Philadelphia, to handle the sales, marketing and distribution of its well known list of books on s...

16 Sep 2010

Noliac Develops Small Sample Processing Capability for Multilayer Piezoelectric Actuators

Noliac has developed a small sample processing capability for multilayer piezoelectric actuators. This capability is a one of it’s kind and offers development partners a unique chance for extending the test to include samples which are tailored for industrial purposes.

16 Sep 2010