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Airgas Introduce New Line of Specialty Gas Regulators at Pittcon

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), the largest U.S. distributor of specialty gases and equipment, today introduced its new line of analytical specialty gas regulators designed especially for gas chromatography at the 61st Pittsbu...

From Linde plc 2 Mar 2010

Coperion STS Extruder Now Produces 20 per cent Higher Throughput

Well in time for Chinaplas (Shanghai, 19th to 22nd April 2010), Coperion has increased the specific torque of its STS advanced compounding extruder by 15% to 10 Nm/cm³. Thanks to this increase in torque, standard tw...

2 Mar 2010

Arkema Partners with EuroBioRef and BIOCORE Projects

With its long-standing experience in the processing of vegetable raw materials, Arkema now partners the EuroBioRef (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing) and BIOCORE (Bioco...

2 Mar 2010

New Hydrogen Sensor from NTM Sensors

NTM Sensors, a newly created division of NexTech Materials, Ltd., is pleased to announce a new hydrogen sensor, SenseH2™. With the tag line "We sense a GREEN future" NTM Sensors intends to introduce sever...

From Nexceris 2 Mar 2010

Wyatt Launch Instrument to Measure Macromolecular Mobilities at Pittcon

Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, announces the launch of its Möbiuζ™ mobility instrument on booth #972 at Pittcon 2010, being held February 28 -March 5, in Orlando.

1 Mar 2010

ShengdaTech Producing Nano-Precipitated Calcium Carbonate at Maximum Capacity

ShengdaTech, Inc. ("ShengdaTech" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:SDTH), the leading manufacturer of nano-precipitated calcium carbonate ("NPCC") in China, today announced that the first phase of t...

1 Mar 2010

Rio Tinto's Divestments Top US$10 Billion

Rio Tinto's divestment programme has passed the US$10 billion mark with the completion of the sale of its Alcan Packaging Food Americas division to Bemis Company, Inc for a total all cash consideration of US$1.2 bill...

From Amcor PLC 1 Mar 2010

Diamonds Prove to be an Effective Way to Clean Floors

The floor cleaning method HTC Twister is a completely chemical-free cleaning solution consisting solely of diamond impregnated pads in combination with pure water but with a final result far better than traditional clean...

1 Mar 2010

Bemis Complete Acquisition of Alcan Packaging Division

Bemis Company, Inc. (NYSE: BMS) announced today that it has completed its acquisition of the Food Americas operations of Alcan Packaging, a business unit of Rio Tinto plc (LON: RIO; ASX: RIO). Under the terms of the $...

From Amcor PLC 1 Mar 2010

A2 Technologies PAL and iPAL FTIR Analyzers measure Biodiesel Contamination

A2 Technologies PAL and iPAL FTIR analyzers are gaining rapid acceptance for measuring biodiesel (%FAME) in diesel fuel for applications where low level contamination of diesel fuel by FAME is problematic.

1 Mar 2010

Coupling Nitrogen Centers in Diamond brings Quantum Computing A Step Closer

If we were to connect only 100 of these NV centers with each other, we would get two to the power of 100 coupled memory cells. “Physically, this is considerably more than we need to store the entire knowledge of humankind,” as Dr. Meijer explains the dimensions. A totally new computer technology can be built by applying the laws of quantum mechanics – with it, we could, for example, calculate the properties of complex biological molecules or crack codes within a fraction of a second.

1 Mar 2010

Synthetic Version of Cadish Fly Silk May Have Application as a Surgical Adhesive

Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly’s silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.

1 Mar 2010

Biolin Scientific to Acquire Analytical Instruments Provider Farfield Group

Biolin Scientific has agreed to acquire the analytical instruments provider Farfield Group. The acquisition of Farfield complements Biolin Scientific's product portfolio and provides new application opportunities in ...

From Biolin Scientific 1 Mar 2010

Colonial Styling Teams with Modern Materials

Special-Lite, Inc. now offers a smooth-surfaced colonial acrylic-modified polyester (AMP) flush door ideal for educational, religious, restaurant, retail and municipal facilities which require a more traditionally styled entrance. The new model is based on the company’s popular SL-18 AMP Colonial Flush Door, which combines the look and feel of real wood and the advantages of modern engineering and materials.

1 Mar 2010

AWS Eco Plastics to Build New Sort Line

AWS Eco Plastics presented the application for planning permission to the Lincolnshire County Council Planning Committee on 15th February 2010, and are please to announce it was passed unanimously. Project director, ...

1 Mar 2010