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Hiden Introduce Mass Spectrometer for Analysis of Fast Transient Gas Events

Hiden Analytical introduce their Transient MS system specifically designed for the analysis of fast transient gas events at pressures near atmosphere. The compact benchtop system is founded on the Hiden HPR-20 QIC series gas analysers and features a purpose-designed fast response capillary inlet and the HAL/3F PIC mass spectrometer with pulse ion counting detector.

From Hiden Analytical 8 Feb 2010

Novel Strategy for Engineering Semiconductors Could Make Hydrogen Fuel More Viable

A novel strategy for engineering semiconductor materials can boost the performance of water-splitting solar cells for hydrogen production, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

8 Feb 2010

New Method for Controlling Magnets Could Improve Storage Capacity of Future Hard Drives

Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives.

8 Feb 2010

Revolutionary Lighting Technology Based on Nanofibers Developed by RTI

RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.

8 Feb 2010

New Microprobe for Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Center

The installation of an advanced imaging tool, a JEOL Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA), will expand research and educational opportunities for students, faculty, and industry in southeastern North Carolina. In January, JEOL completed the installation of its new generation of EPMA, also known as a microprobe, at the Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Center.

8 Feb 2010

Alcoa Calls on Businesses to Develop Sustainable Strategies

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and a diverse group representing 29 leading global companies across 14 industries today called on businesses around the world to develop strategies that would enable a global population of some 9 billion people to live well within the resources of the planet by 2050.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 8 Feb 2010

Air Products Launches Take Over Bid for Airgas

Air Products (NYSE: APD) announced that it has made an offer to acquire Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG) for $60.00 per share in cash. The offer was made in a letter to Airgas' Board of Directors yesterday after the CEOs of ...

From Air Products PLC 8 Feb 2010

Sales for the German Photovoltaic Industry Down 28 per cent in Q3 2009

The sales turnover of the manufacturers of components, machinery and equipment for the photovoltaic industry in Germany went down by 28 per cent in the third quarter of 2009 compared to the respective quarter of last yea...

8 Feb 2010

Bodycote's Chinese Heat Treatment Plant Achieves Nadcap Accreditation

Prime aerospace manufacturers and their supply chains in Asia can now benefit from access to Bodycote's newly Nadcap-accredited heat treatment facility in Wuxi, China. The Wuxi plant has become the first subcontr...

5 Feb 2010

Alton Steel becomes First Steel Plant to Use Siroll Orbis to Measure the Profile of Long Products

US company Alton Steel Inc. has become the world's first steel producer to use Siroll Orbis+ to measure the profile of long products. The Siroll Orbis+ fully rotating, on-line gauge for wire rod and bar mills delivers improvements in both product quality and output, while reducing waste.

From Primetals Technologies Limited 5 Feb 2010

Control Gear Makes Excimer Lamps Easier to Integrate into Production Systems

The DBD 300/110-240 DIM electronic control gear with its patented pulsed mode to operate VUV emitting Xeradex excimer lamps has been designed for the 30W to 300W performance range. Among the control gear’s innovations is the option of continuously variable regulation of its output from 10 to 100 percent, analogue control and read out. This makes it easier to integrate and adapt OSRAM’s Xeradex lamps in production systems – such as the surface treatment of semiconductor materials or in display or solar cell production.

5 Feb 2010

Siemens Wins Contract to Supply Equipment to Upgrade Italian Steel Rolling Mill

Feralpi Siderurgica SpA, based in Lonato (BS), Italy, has placed an order with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies for a new intermediate mill for its rebar rolling mill No. 1. The plant will be able to roll billets with a larger cross-section when the modernization project has been completed in the fall of 2010. This will also increase its production capacity and widen its range of products.

From Primetals Technologies Limited 5 Feb 2010