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Hydro to Sell Spanish Rolling Mill

Hydro has entered into an agreement to divest its aluminium rolling mill in Irurtzun, Spain, to the German industrial holding company Bavaria Industriekapital AG.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 2 Dec 2009

Tiny Particles to Take on the Energy Storage Industry

In leading the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's first technology spin-off, Charles Gibson, an inorganic chemistry professor, hopes to make a big impact on the energy storage industry with the tiniest of particles.

1 Dec 2009

Oxford Instruments Collaborate with Neutron Scattering Facilities to Deliver First High Field Helium Recondensing Magnets

Oxford Instruments has collaborated with two World-class neutron scattering facilities, the ISIS Neutron Source (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot) and the ILL neutron facility (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble...

From Oxford Instruments 1 Dec 2009

Rio Tinto Complete Sale of Alcan Composites

Further to the announcement of 22 September, Rio Tinto has completed the sale of Alcan Composites, part of the Alcan Engineered Products division, to Schweiter Technologies for a total consideration of US$349 million. ...

1 Dec 2009

UPM Supplies Environmentally Friendly Paper for UN Climate Change Conference

UPM will supply roughly nine million sheets of copy paper in cooperation with office supplies company Lyreco to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009. Future from UPM's Docell...

1 Dec 2009

Revolutionary Product for the Identification of New Separation Materials

MIP Technologies AB announces today the launch of a revolutionary discovery toolbox for identification of new separation materials, ExploraSep4Process. The product consists of 130 different molecularly imprinted polymers...

1 Dec 2009

LyondellBasell to Shutdown Propylene Line in Germany

LyondellBasell announced today that it will shut down one polypropylene (PP) line in Wesseling, Germany, by the end of 2009. As a result, PP capacity at the site will be reduced by 110KT. "We have concluded that...

From LyondellBasell Industries 1 Dec 2009

MSL Launch New Reactors to Deal with Hazardous Metal Working Fluids

Microbial Solutions Ltd (MSL), an Oxfordshire company that has developed award-winning ecologically friendly bacterial technologies to dispose of metal working fluids, has launched two new bioreactors. Made to an innovat...

1 Dec 2009

Germany's National Metrology Institute Chooses Olympus LEXT to Help Check Specifications of Standards

The Olympus LEXT OLS4000 has been chosen by Germany’s national metrology institute, the PTB, for use in a joint project that aims to develop an assistance system for confocal and interferential microscope users. As an advanced example of the instrumentation that the “Optassyst” project focuses on, the LEXT OLS4000 will help to provide measurements to check the specifications of standards and measurement procedures.

1 Dec 2009

In Line Particle Size Analysis Just Got Simpler Thanks to Malvern

The new ‘Pharma option 3: Parsum View’ user interface for the Parsum IPP 70 in-line particle size measurement probe, available from Malvern Panalytical, simplifies the system’s use as a PAT (Process Analytical Technology) tool for continuous monitoring of granulation, spray drying and fluidised bed operations, for example.

From Malvern Panalytical 1 Dec 2009

3M and TAZMO Sign Agreement for the Manufacture and Sale of Equipment for Temporary Bonding of Ultrathin Semiconductor Wafers

3M, a leading supplier of advanced materials to the semiconductor industry, and TAZMO CO., LTD, a leading supplier of semiconductor and LCD manufacturing equipment, today announced an agreement to allow TAZMO to manufact...

1 Dec 2009

JEOL Expands Sales Support in Canada

JEOL, globally-recognized for its advanced Electron Microscopes, Spectrometers, and E-Beam Lithography tools, announces the appointment of a new JEOL Canada Sales Manager. Richard Humphrey of Calgary, Alberta, will repre...

1 Dec 2009

TMK Begins Shipments of Large Diameter Pipe to Pochinki-Gryazovets Pipeline

TMK, one of the world's leading producers of pipes for the oil and gas industry, announces today that it began shipments of large-diameter pipe to Gazprom for the construction of the Pochinki-Gryazovets pipeline. ...

1 Dec 2009

Veeco Unleash Two New Scan Modes for AFM's

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force microscope (AFM) instrumentation to the Research and Industrial communities, announced today the introduction of two patent-pending AFM scan mod...

From Veeco 1 Dec 2009

Fatigue Testing Machine Specifically Suited to Small Materials and Components

This year’s testXpo testing technology forum – the 18th – saw Zwick present a completely new type of testing machine, designed for the fatigue-testing of small materials and components. It has been developed for the most demanding applications, including those found in medical engineering.

From ZwickRoell GmbH Co. KG 1 Dec 2009