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DuPont Fluorochemicals Exeriencing Rapid Growth in India

Even in a rapidly growing market like India, growth is not always a given. Near the end of 2006, the DuPont Fluorochemicals business was impacted when the only Fluorochemicals distributor in India decided to leave DuPont to join a competitor.

11 Aug 2009

DuPont's Tyvek Films Used to Protect FIAT Cars

FIAT, the Italian carmaker, is the first Western European car manufacturer to introduce Tyvek® Transcovers® automotive surface protection system at their Tychy site in Poland.

11 Aug 2009

Curious SAMFET Behaviour Could See them Used as Sensitive Chemical Sensors

An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs). This opens the door to extremely sensitive chemical sensors that can be produced in a cost-effective way.

11 Aug 2009

Design and Developments in Interior Textiles

Technological advances have a significant effect on design, allowing multifaceted applications and the incorporation of new features. Technology can widen the scope of design, a significant change that can be identified ...

11 Aug 2009

Elasticized Liquid Crystals that Behave Like Muscles

To move your arm or leg, certain muscles need to change shape, to either lengthen or contract. Now scientists have made liquid-crystalline particles that can change shape in a similar way, but which are only micrometers across. Professor Rudolf Zentel and his colleagues at the Universities of Mainz and Strasbourg have prepared these tiny shape-changing materials out of elasticized liquid crystals, taking advantage of a continuous fluidic device for fabrication.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 11 Aug 2009

Europe Goes Green as Incandescent Light Bulbs are Phased Out

European consumers are switching to green products as a result of the EU ban on incandescent lamps. According to the GfK market research company, sales of traditional light bulbs fell by up to 35 percent in the first qua...

11 Aug 2009

Timken Do Deal to Sell Oil Seals in India

The Timken Company announced that Timken India Ltd. has signed a marketing agreement with India’s Spareage Seals Limited, which will allow Timken to offer Spareage’s complete range of oil seals to customers and distributors throughout India.

From The Timken Co. 11 Aug 2009

Earthquake Disrupts Production at LCD Glass Manufacturing Plant

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced that production at its LCD glass manufacturing facility in Shizuoka, Japan was disrupted by the earthquake that occurred in Honshu yesterday. "We are relieved that...

11 Aug 2009

Report Predicts US Stimulus Package will Have a Positive Effect on the Composites Industry

Despite a significant downturn in the U.S. construction market and a slowdown in wind energy, the economic stimulus package announced by the Obama administration is likely to drive composite market growth. Out of $787 bi...

11 Aug 2009

Nanometrics Wins R+D100 Award for Advanced Film Capability (AFC) Technology

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq: NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs as well as adv...

11 Aug 2009

Controlling Janus Particles Opens Up New Applications

Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions. For years, scientis...

11 Aug 2009

Properly Insulated Homes in the UK Could Save around £520m

Insulating the average domestic loft properly could save up to £150 on fuel bills and cut carbon emissions by 800kg per home per year. In fact, if all UK households topped up their loft insulation to 270mm, around £520m ...

11 Aug 2009

Updated Report on Degradation of Aromatic Polyesters

iSmithers Rapra Publishing has announced the release of Update on Degradation and Stabilisation of Aromatic Polyesters. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the degradation and stabilisation processes specific...

From Smithers Rapra Technology Ltd 11 Aug 2009

Carbon Design Innovations Wins Grant to Develop Carbon Nanotube AFM Probes

Carbon Design Innovations, Inc. (C|D|I) today announced that it has grant in the amount of $390,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The grant will fund the development and commercialization of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) probes for bioimaging and investigations in cellular biology.

From Carbon Design Innovations 11 Aug 2009

Energy Efficient Practices at UPM Pulp Mill Produce Almost Zero Carbon Footprint

The first year of UPM Kymi pulp mill's new chemical recovery plant has succeeded as planned. The plant, started up in summer 2008, is top-class in terms of energy efficiency and its low airborne emissions fulfil the ...

11 Aug 2009