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Waters Introduce New UPLC System with HPLC Simplicity

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today introduced the new WatersR ACQUITY UPLCR H-Class System incorporating the proven, robust and reliable performance of ACQUITY UltraPerformance LCR (UPLC) with the operational familiarit...

25 Jan 2010

New Way to Generate Free Electrons

Scientists at Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching and Greifswald and Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin have discovered a new way in which high-energy radiation in water can release slow electrons. Thei...

25 Jan 2010

PolyOne Receives Supplier Excellence Award from CONMED Linvatec

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced that it has received the Supplier Excellence Award from CONMED Corporation's CONMED Linva...

25 Jan 2010

SMS Siemag to Supply Two Continuous Annealing Lines to Packaging Manufacturer

Yichang Three Gorges (Yichang Three Gorges Quantong Colored and Galvanized Plate Co., Ltd.), China, has placed an order with SMS Siemag, Germany, for the supply of two continuous annealing lines. Both lines will process ...

25 Jan 2010

Polymer Group to Establish Center of Excellence for Nonwoven Technology Platforms

Polymer Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: POLGA; POLGB) (PGI) today announced it will establish a research "Center of Excellence" (COE) to develop new nonwoven technology platforms yielding differentiated, highe...

25 Jan 2010

Cabot Corp to Expand Fumed Silica Production in China

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) and China National Bluestar (Group) Co. Ltd. announced today that Cabot (China) Ltd., a subsidiary of Cabot Corporation, and Bluestar New Chemical Materials Co. Ltd have signed an agreement ...

25 Jan 2010

Free Web Seminar Demonstrates Best Practices for On-Wafer Probing

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE: KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled "Tips, Tricks, and Traps for On-Wafer Probing" on Thur...

25 Jan 2010

Determining the Dynamic Behavior of Bus Structures

One of the accidents in which a bus can be involved is bus rollover. In these cases, the body structure is essential for the protection of the passengers, and the scientists analyze how to improve the structure’s behavior when dealing with an event of this kind. Along these lines, the study carried out by the researchers from the UC3M Instituto de Seguridad de los Vehículos Automóviles (Automobile Safety Institute) (ISVA) proposes a mathematic model to estimate the vibration frequencies of the bus structure itself.

25 Jan 2010

ArcelorMittal and BHP Billiton Look to Combine Iron Ore Interests in Liberia and Guinea

ArcelorMittal announces it has entered into initial discussions with BHP Billiton to potentially combine our respective iron ore mining and infrastructure interests in Liberia and Guinea within a joint venture. The iron ...

From BHP 25 Jan 2010

Latrobe Special Steel Wins AIST Award for Project Excellence

Latrobe Specialty Steel's VIM-VAR expansion won by unanimous vote the Association for Iron & Steel Technology's (AIST) award for 2009 Project Excellence. AIST's Project and Construction Management Technol...

25 Jan 2010

Arkema Sponsor Chemstart'up Award

Arkema sponsors Chemparc, a public interest group in charge of development in the Lacq basin of SW France, for the first edition of the Chemstart'up Award. With backing from Fédération Française pour l...

25 Jan 2010

Applied Materials and Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Settle Patent Dispute

Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) and Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, Inc. (AMEC) today jointly announced that they have settled all litigation between the respective companies and that all outstanding disputes...

From Applied Materials Inc 25 Jan 2010

Plenary Speakers to Focus on Polymer Innovations at SPE ANTEC 2010

The speakers at the plenary sessions of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC™ 2010 conference will be three authorities on the business and science of polymer materials, it was announced today by SPE. ANTEC 2010, the world’s largest plastics technical conference, will take place May 16-20 in Orlando, FL.

25 Jan 2010

Chinese Tile Manufacturer Acquires Another Production Facility

China Ceramics Co., Ltd. ("China Ceramics" or the "Company") announced today that the Gaoan City Administration for Industry and Commence has transferred to the Company the registration and business l...

25 Jan 2010

Bal Seal Focus on PTFE and UHMWPE Low Pressure, Low Friction Seals at Lab Automation 2010

Low pressure, low friction sealing solutions will be the central feature of an exhibit hosted by Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. at the Lab Automation 2010 trade event, held January 24-26 in Palm Springs, Calif. Bal Seal,...

25 Jan 2010