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Osram Lighting Solution for Motorcycle Riders Improves Safety

Seeing and being seen: the life assurance for motorcycle fans. With its OSRAM Night Racer and OSRAM X-Racer, the high performance lamps in its new motorcycle lamp line, OSRAM has opened up a new dimension for powerful li...

From Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 9 Oct 2009

ORNL Shell Out $33 Million for Materials to Build the ITER's Largest Magnets

The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, a major co...

9 Oct 2009

Accelerator Hardens Concrete Faster with No Ill Effects on Final Properties

BASF has launched its new Crystal Speed Hardening concept for contractors and precast producers. The core product of the concept is X-SEED 100, a unique hardening accelerator. It helps to speed up concrete hardening sign...

From BASF Corporation 9 Oct 2009

DuPont Metallization Paste helps Make Solar Energy More Attractive

DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM) recently announced the introduction of DuPont™ Solamet® PV412 photovoltaic (PV) metallization paste for thin film PV technologies. Thin film PV is projected to become the fastest-growing segment of the solar module industry because it has the potential to reduce the cost of producing solar energy.

9 Oct 2009

Additive that Gives Coatings Abrasion Resistance without Compromising Gloss or Clarity

Dow Corning has introduced an innovative performance-enhancing additive that brings excellent abrasion resistance, leveling and slip to clear and pigmented paints, coatings and inks without generating excessive foam or c...

From Dow Corning 9 Oct 2009

Dow Corning's Silicone Technology Wins Solar Industry Award

Dow Corning Corporation, a global leader in silicon-based technology and innovation, was named winner of the 2009 SOLAR Industry Award in the photovoltaic material category for its new Dow Corning PV-6100 Encapsulant Ser...

From Dow Corning 9 Oct 2009

Corus Supply Insulated Composite Roofing for New Storage Facility

Corus Panels and Profiles, part of the leading pre-finished steel producer Corus, has supplied 10,400m2 of Trisomet® 333 System - its new insulated composite roofing system – for delivery of Rainham Steel’s new steel storage facility in Scunthorpe.

9 Oct 2009

Alcoa to Supply Aluminum Armor Kits for AM General's HMMWV ECV

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) announced today that it will supply aluminum armor kit components for AM General's Expanded Capacity High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV ECV). The aluminum kits increase vehicle occupa...

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 9 Oct 2009

Nanotechnology Has the Power to Change the World According to Alcoa Exec

Nanotechnology breakthroughs will be essential in developing game-changing solutions to address world issues, such as energy shortages, environmental concerns and greater connectivity, said Alcoa (NYSE:AA) Executive Vice...

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 9 Oct 2009

Diesel Powered Ford's to get Corning DuraTrap AT Filters

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced today that Ford of Europe is equipping several models of its European market diesel passenger cars with the Corning DuraTrap AT filter. Corning has already begun shipping the pr...

9 Oct 2009

Arkema Develop Thermoplastics Derived Entirely from Renewable Materials

Capitalizing on its long-standing experience in castor oil chemistry, Arkema has now developed Pebax® Rnew100, a range of thermoplastic elastomers produced entirely from renewable raw materials.

9 Oct 2009

EDI Has Slot Die Coating Stations Available for Rent

A complete slot die coating station with all components from idler roll to backing roll is now available for renting by manufacturers in Asia, enabling them to eliminate hours of setup in switching from roll to slot die coating as they carry out product and process development with slot dies in their own plants, it was announced today by Extrusion Dies Industries, LLC (EDI).

8 Oct 2009

Syracuse University's Sports Centre gets Thermally Efficient Walls

Like a soda can in a koozie sleeve, Syracuse University's new Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center is wrapped in insulating foam to protect indoor temperatures from outside extremes. The BLUE™ foam insulation for the steel-frame building comes in the form of a new wall system from Dow Building Solutions.

From Dow Chemicals 8 Oct 2009

Unisource Wins Greener Packaging Award

Unisource Worldwide, Inc. one of the leading distributors of paper, packaging and facility supplies in North America, has won a 2009 Greener Packaging Award for its environmentally-friendly sustainable packaging product....

8 Oct 2009

Copper Development Association Members to Help Educate American Kids

It's a sad fact. American school kids lag in science and math compared to students globally. But Copper Development Association (CDA) member companies are determined to do their part to turn it around. Freeport-M...

8 Oct 2009