Materials Science News

RSS

Aluminium Manufacturer Hydro to Sell Off Automotive Structures Business

Norsk Hydro ASA has today entered into an agreement to divest its automotive structures business to Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH, the automotive division of the large German industrial enterprise Benteler Group with headquarters in Paderborn, Germany. The agreement represents a solid, long-term industrial solution for Hydro`s automotive structures activities, and is in line with Hydro’s strategy to focus its extruded activities on profiles solutions and building systems.

27 Oct 2009

Mixing Tiny Volumes of Liquid

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.

27 Oct 2009

Malvern and Kaiser Optical Systems to Develop Advanced Range of Raman Microscopes

Materials characterization company Malvern Panalytical (Malvern Panalytical, Worcs, UK) and Kaiser Optical Systems (Ann Arbor, MI, USA), a leading supplier of Raman analyzers and components for spectroscopy, announce a d...

From Malvern Panalytical 27 Oct 2009

Novelis Sign LongTerm Aluminum Can Sheet Supply Deal

Novelis today announced the signing of a new multi-year agreement to supply aluminum can sheet to Anheuser-Busch. The agreement becomes effective January 1, 2010, when Novelis' existing supply contract with Anheuser-Busch expires.

From Novelis Corp 27 Oct 2009

Global Steel Production Expected to be Down 10 per cent on 2009

MEPS forecasts global steel production at 1200 million tonnes in 2009. This represents a 9.5 percent reduction on the outturn in the previous twelve month period. This result will be significantly above predictions by mo...

27 Oct 2009

Prysmian Open Extra High Voltage Power Cable Plant

Prysmian, a worldwide leading Group in the sector of cables and systems for energy and telecommunications, will open a new Extra High Voltage power cable plant in Abbeville (South Carolina). The facility, in which €...

27 Oct 2009

Could this be the Ultimate Building Material?

Scientists have developed a new building material that is fire resistant to temperatures in excess of 1100 degrees Celsius, is made largely from recycled material and is as versatile as concrete. Liquid Granite offer...

27 Oct 2009

Lithium Corp and Nevada Lithium Amalgamate

Lithium Corporation (OTCBB: LTUM) (the "Company", or Lithco) is pleased to announce that it has completed a share exchange and amalgamation with private company Nevada Lithium Corporation. The share exchange an...

27 Oct 2009

Arkema to Increase Kynar PVDF Production by 15 per cent

Work to extend Arkema's Kynar PVDF resin plant in Calvert City (United States / Kentucky) is nearing completion. This latest debottlenecking of around $20 M will ensure a 15% increase in the plant's production ca...

27 Oct 2009

Sypris Sell Test and Measurement Business to Concentrate on Aerospace and Defence

Commenting on the announcement, Jeffrey T. Gill, president and chief executive officer of Sypris Solutions, said, "The completion of this transaction with Tektronix marks an important milestone for Sypris Solutions....

27 Oct 2009

Veeco Receives Multiple Order for TurboDisc MOCVD Systems from Sanan OptoElectronics

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), announced today that Sanan OptoElectronics of China has placed multiple tool orders for Veeco's TurboDisc® Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems to expand their manufacturing capacity of high brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs).

From Veeco 26 Oct 2009

Acrylic Resin Removal for Sympathetic Restoration of Old Artwork

In the past, restoration of paintings and other old artwork often involved application of coatings such as acrylic resins to consolidate and protect them.

By Reginald Davey 26 Oct 2009

Graphene Additive Improving the Productivity of Wells

A wall of graphene a single nanometer wide could be the difference between an oil well that merely pays for itself and one that returns great profit. Rice University and Houston-based M-I SWACO, the world's largest p...

26 Oct 2009

World's Fastest Supercomputer Completes Initial "Shakedown" Phase

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unc...

26 Oct 2009

Applied Materials Announces Opening of Advanced Solar Research and Demonstration Facility in China

Applied Materials' Solar Technology Center, the largest non-government solar energy research facility in the world, is comprised of laboratory and office buildings covering more than 400,000 square feet and contains an entire Applied SunFab™ thin film manufacturing line and a complete crystalline silicon pilot process.

From Applied Materials Inc 26 Oct 2009