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Digitize and Reverse Engineer Components with Waterjet Technology

If customers come to you with physical parts but they have no drawing or electronic file, you can use the digitizing capability of a WARDJet waterjet to reverse engineer these types of parts. Also, if these parts are lar...

21 Dec 2009

Ausmelt Receives Takeover Offer from Tenova

Further to the announcement this morning of the increase in the takeover price by Outotec Pty Ltd, Ausmelt (ASX:AET) has now received the attached correspondence on behalf of Tenova S.p.A. (Tenova) of Italy. Tenova i...

21 Dec 2009

New Solution Improves the Memory Capacity of Electronic Chips

Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips. Led by Michael Kozicki, an ASU electrical engineering professor and director...

21 Dec 2009

Researchers Look to Organic Electronics to Reduce the Production Costs for Mobile Displays

Screens and display elements in mobile phones, e-readers for electronic books and measuring devices are now well-established features of our networked world. To make the manufacture of these mobile mass displays more cos...

21 Dec 2009

New Paradigm Should Allow Scientists to Observe Quantum Behavior in Small Mechanical Systems

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems. Their ideas, described in the latest ...

21 Dec 2009

Discovery Could Help Those Developing Nanoelectronics and Energy Storage Solutions

New results by scientists at Umeå University show that not only water but also alcohol solvents can be inserted to expand the structure of graphite oxide under high pressure conditions. The information is helpful in...

21 Dec 2009

Recticel to Sell Its Remaining Car Window Encapsulation Activities in Belgium

Recticel has reached an agreement with the Group Strazzante - an industrial group mainly active in the Charlerloi region (Belgium) - on the sale of its remaining car window encapsulation activities in Gilly (Belgium). In...

21 Dec 2009

Fast, Precise O-Ring Production with the Arburg Allrounder 470A

Generally speaking, what is understood by the term 'LSR production' the is high-volume manufacturing of moulded parts made from liquid silicone, utilising the full available potential for cycle time reductions. With the production of O-rings, Arburg demonstrates a machine configuration which meets all these criteria to the maximum possible extent.

From Arburg GmbH 20 Dec 2009

3M Open Innovative Customer Technical Center in Dubai

3M announced today that it is bringing its technology even closer to customers with the opening of an innovative Customer Technical Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is the first center of its kind in the M...

20 Dec 2009

Gurit Completes Acquisition of Red Maple Wind Blade Mould Co. Ltd.

Gurit, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-end composite materials and technologies, has closed the transaction announced on December 8, 2009, to acquire Suzhou Red Maple Wind Blade Mould Co. Ltd., Taicang, Jian...

From Gurit Inc 20 Dec 2009

Beneq's ALD Technology of Interest to India for Solar Applications

Finnish materials technology enjoyed a moment of limelight in the beginning of December this year, when a Finnish industry delegation, lead by Minister of Economic Affairs, Mr Mauri Pekkarinen, visited New Delhi, India. ...

18 Dec 2009

New Support Greatly Increases the Durability of Proton Exchange Membranes Fuel Cells

A new carbon support that greatly increases the durability of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells has been developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University. This new material significantly improves the stability of the fuel cell catalyst and will potentially lower the cost of these fuel cells.

17 Dec 2009

Angstron Materials to Develop Nano Graphene Platelet Mass Production Technology

Angstron Materials Inc., a world leader in the production of nano graphene platelets (NGPs), has been awarded 1.494 million to develop processes for mass-producing chemically modified ("functionalized") NGPs fo...

17 Dec 2009

TMK Complete Shipments of Pipes to the Karachaganak-Uralsk Pipeline

TMK (LSE:TMKS), one of the world's leading manufacturers of pipe products for the oil and gas industry, today announces that it completed pipe shipments to the Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO) internationa...

17 Dec 2009

DA Nanomaterials Maintains Confidence in Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Cabot Microelectronics

DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials L.L.C. (DA NanoMaterials) remains confident in its legal positions following the judge's order denying all summary judgment motions in DA NanoMaterials' patent invalidity/non-inf...

17 Dec 2009