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Honda Honors DuPont for Coatings Supply

Honda recently named DuPont Automotive OEM Coatings as Supplier of the Year for outstanding performance in providing products and services. From among 2,400 in the supplier base, DuPont was one of 12 to earn an award.

14 Oct 2009

Lighter, Stronger Kevlar Released by DuPont

DuPont Protection Technologies has launched DuPont™ Kevlar® Advanced Performance (AP) fibers – a product that’s 15% stronger yet lighter weight compared to standard Kevlar® fibers.

14 Oct 2009

Superconductor Electricity Pipelines to be Adopted for America's First Renewable Energy Market Hub

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global energy technologies company, today announced that Superconductor Electricity Pipelines have been chosen for The Tres Amigas Project, the nation's first ren...

14 Oct 2009

Thermal and Fire Rated Insulation Solution for Concrete Roof Soffits

Rockwool, the world's leading manufacturer of non-combustible stone wool insulation, is launching Hi-Impact soffit slab - a thermal and fire-rated solution for concrete roof soffits. The new product, created in p...

14 Oct 2009

Magnetricity Measured for the First Time

A magnetic charge can behave and interact just like an electric charge in some materials, according to new research conducted at STFC's ISIS facility and led by the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) which could ...

14 Oct 2009

Bayer to Show Off Innovative Polycarbonate and Polyurethane Products at FAKUMA

At the 20th FAKUMA fair in Friedrichshafen, Bayer MaterialScience AG will be showcasing innovative polycarbonate and polyurethane products and process technology developments for a wide range of industries on Stand 4206 ...

13 Oct 2009

New range of Low Cost Polystyrene Reagent Reservoirs from Porvair Sciences

Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced a new range of low cost, disposable polystyrene reagent reservoirs. Optional lids help prevent reagent contamination and spillage as well as enabling reservoirs to be simply stacked economising on use of valuable bench space.

From Porvair Filtration Group 13 Oct 2009

Tenova to Supply State-of-the-Art Carbon Baking Furnaces to Chinese Customer

Sinosteel Advanced Materials (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd and Tenova LOI Italimpianti, together with LOI Thermprocess (Tianjin) Co Ltd. for local manufacturing, have recently signed a contract for the turn-key supply of three (3) ...

13 Oct 2009

Sacrificial Blast Wedge to Protect Military Personnel from Explosive Devices

A new crew survivability concept that would build military vehicles around a protected personnel compartment and use a sacrificial “blast wedge” to absorb energy from improvised explosive devices could improve safety for the occupants of future light armored patrol vehicles.

13 Oct 2009

INEOS Improves Security of Global Acetonitrile Supply

INEOS, today announced a technological breakthrough that will significantly improve the global security of supply for acetonitrile. Changes to its technology has recently been implemented at Seal Sands (UK), Lima, Ohio (...

13 Oct 2009

GKN Aerospace Purchase Industrial Microwave for Processing of Composites

GKN Aerospace is purchasing its first industrial standard microwave oven - becoming one of only a few industrial organisations worldwide to own a machine for its own research use. Phil Grainger, Senior Technical Dire...

13 Oct 2009

BASF and Recaro Team to Produce Sports Seats for New Opel Insignia

The performance front seats of the new Opel Insignia OPC – which obtained the quality seal of the Aktion Gesunder Rücken e.V. (AGR – Healthy Back Campaign) – were developed by Opel and Recaro with BASF’s assistance. These seats are made of two special polyamides belonging to the Ultramid® family as well as of the specialty foam Neopolen®.

From BASF Corporation 13 Oct 2009

Oxford Instruments NanoScience Place 2nd at British Engineering Excellence Awards

Oxford Instruments NanoScience Ultra Low Temperature engineering team achieved "highly commended" runners up place at the 2009 British Engineering Excellence Awards ceremony held at the Globe Theatre in London on Oct 1st, 2009. The award was made in the New Product of the Year (Mechanical) category for a Cryogen-free integrated dilution refrigerator TritonTM200 with magnet in recognition of the product design enhancements, cost reduction, first time pass rate and market growth achieved since the radical redesign project was implemented in July 2008.

From Oxford Instruments Nanoscience 13 Oct 2009

Freeman Powder Rheometer Provides Rapid, Consistent Characterisation of Powders

Use of the FT4 Powder Rheometer from Freeman Technology is enabling organic chemists at Clarochem (Ireland) Limited, to incorporate some fundamental aspects of material science into their crystallization work. This is proving to be a significant point of differentiation in their field.

From Freeman Technology 13 Oct 2009

OSRAM Wins Design Award for Automotive Lamp Boxes

The international contest for the red dot design award is one of the largest design competitions in the world with the red dot trophy considered to be an international hallmark of design quality. Munich-based lighting ma...

From Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 12 Oct 2009