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Cliffs Natural Resources Teams Up with Spider Resources

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) announced today that it has executed a definitive support agreement with Spider Resources Inc. (“Spider”) (TSXV: SPQ) under which Spider has agreed to support C...

3 Jul 2010

Lafarge Becomes First Cement Industry Partner to Novacem

Novacem, the carbon negative cement company, today announced the first closing of its Green Cement Bond, together with the participation of Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, as the first subscriber. ...

3 Jul 2010

SAS Purchases Aircraft Components Manufacturer in Washington

Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS), the aftermarket division of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., today announced the acquisition of LifePort, Inc., a Washington aircraft accessories manufacturer that specializes in air medic...

3 Jul 2010

Taylor Lumber Acquired by Private Equity Firm

Resilience Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based private equity firm has completed the acquisition of Taylor Lumber Inc. and its subsidiaries. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1889, Tay...

3 Jul 2010

Stepan Acquires Assets of Peter Cremer’s Methyl Ester Plant

Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL) today announced it has acquired the manufacturing assets of Peter Cremer GmbH's 100,000 ton per year methyl ester plant located on Singapore's Jurong Island. "Methyl esters are a ...

3 Jul 2010

Paper-Based Packaging Manufacturer Publishes 2009 Sustainable Development Report

Smurfit Kappa Group plc (‘SKG’ or the ‘Group’), one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturers of paper-based packaging products with operations in Europe and Latin America, is pleased to announce the publicati...

3 Jul 2010

Strategic Business Report on Bisphenol A Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Bisphenol A industry (http://www.reportlinker.com/p0197231/Global-Bisphenol-A-industry.html) This report a...

From Report Linker 3 Jul 2010

Masonite Announces Asset Acquisition of Door Manufacturers in India

Masonite Inc. today announced the strategic acquisition of selected assets of two leading door manufacturers in India--Feroke Boards Limited, located at Aluva near Cochin, Kerala State and Mahsim High Tech Fab Limited, located at Chanalon Industrial Area near Mohali, Punjab State.

3 Jul 2010

Fraunhofer FEP Develops New Coating Technology to Prevent Food Deterioration

To prevent unpleasant surprises like this, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (Fraunhofer FEP) in Dresden developed a method to coat plastic foils with a very thin barrier layer that keeps out humidity and oxygen, the main culprits of food deterioration.

3 Jul 2010

CleanTech Biofuels to Install its Vessel at Fiberight’s Lawrenceville Plant

CleanTech Biofuels, Inc., an early stage provider of cellulosic biomass feedstock derived from municipal solid waste (MSW) for energy and bio-based chemical production, announced an agreement with Fiberight LLC. (Fiberight), to install its demonstration vessel at Fiberight’s cellulosic ethanol pilot plant in Lawrenceville, Va.

3 Jul 2010

Chase Divests Service Operation to Focus on Tapes and Coatings Businesses

Chase Corporation (NYSE Amex: CCF), a global manufacturer of protective tapes and coatings for high reliability applications, announces that it has divested its contract manufacturing services business, Chase EMS, t...

From Chase Corporation 3 Jul 2010

Finland-Based Paper Company Acquired by OpenGate Capital

OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm, has closed its acquisition of the Kotka Mills division of Stora Enso, a multi-billion euro, publicly traded Finnish corporation, along with Stora Enso’s laminating pap...

3 Jul 2010

Influence of Particle Shape on Battery Electrode Coating Films Reported

Work undertaken in Japan and described in a new application note on the Malvern Panalytical website, examines the influence of particle shape on the characteristics of coating film for battery electrodes. Using the Sysmex Flow Particle Image Analyzer FPIA-3000, available from Malvern Panalytical, researchers at Hokkaido University looked at both the size and shape of graphite particles in coating films produced by different methods.

From Malvern Panalytical 2 Jul 2010

Morgan and ErySave Work on Particle Separation by Ultrasound for Medical Applications

Morgan Advanced Materials is working with ErySave on a pioneering new medical application using particle separation by ultrasound (PARSUS). The company has developed a disposable piezoelectric ceramic plate for this novel medical technology, which is ideal for applications such as the separation of micro emboli from blood during open-heart surgery.

From Morgan Advanced Materials 2 Jul 2010

Global Analysis on Nylon Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Nylon industry (http://www.reportlinker.com/p0197212/Global-Nylon-industry.html) This report analyzes the w...

From Report Linker 2 Jul 2010