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Landmark Agreement Ensures the Origin of All UPM Wood Fiber Products

UPM and SGS have finalised a global landmark agreement in which the origin of all UPM pulp and paper products will be ensured with a single, global system. For UPM's customers, the new multi-site certification means ...

24 Aug 2009

Revised Version of Toxic Metal Release from Ceramic and Glass Tableware in Contact with Food Available

CERAM has now published a revised version of its comprehensive guide to Toxic Metal Release from Ceramic and Glass Tableware in Contact with Food. The guide is of particular benefit to the ceramic and glass tableware man...

24 Aug 2009

MEPS EU Average Steel Flat Products Price Collapses

After peaking in August 2008 at €860 per tonne, the MEPS EU average flat products' price collapsed to €420 per tonne in May this year. This was the lowest figure for more than five years. The weakening ...

24 Aug 2009

Surrey Nanosystems Secures £2.5 million in Funding

Surrey NanoSystems has secured second round funding of £2.5 million (~US$4.2m) from Octopus Ventures, IP Group, The University of Surrey and other investors. The capital will help to commercialize an innovative low...

24 Aug 2009

Neo Material Technologies Acquires Niche Metal Reclamation Business

Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX: NEM) (the "Company" or "Neo") and privately held Recapture Metals Limited of Peterborough, Ontario ("Recapture") jointly announced the signing of agreeme...

24 Aug 2009

Efficient Way Found to Separate and Store CO2 from Smokestacks

Korean researchers have now developed a porous material that can bind and store CO2 efficiently and highly selectively. As Myunghyun Paik Suh and Hye-Sun Choi report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the lattice-like network contains flexible “columns” that can open the pores of the three-dimensional lattice for CO2.

24 Aug 2009

Milliken Chemical to Showcase Wide Range of Designs at ConneXion

Milliken Chemical, a division of Milliken & Company, in collaboration with global materials consultancy Material ConneXion, will host an exhibition showcasing a wide array of designs using polypropylene (PP) clarifie...

From Milliken & Company 24 Aug 2009

Advanced Composites Group to Exhibit at DSEi 2009 Show

Advanced Composites Group Ltd. (ACG), part of the Composites Division of Umeco plc, will be exhibiting on Stand No.: 328 at the DSEi 2009 show in the ExCeL centre, London 8th to11th September 2009. Prepreg products f...

24 Aug 2009

Bruckner to Sell Share in Blow Film Extrusion Company to Reifenhauser

Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik, Troisdorf and Brückner Technology Holding GmbH, Siegsdorf announce that retroactively as of January 1, 2009 all their equity interests in Kiefel Extrusion GmbH, W...

From Brückner Group USA Inc. 24 Aug 2009

PPG Helps Bring out the Green in Electrolux Washers and Dryers

On Earth Day 2009, Electrolux introduced “Kelly Green,” a limited-edition color designed exclusively for the company’s premium line of eco-friendly washers and dryers. The vibrant new hue stemmed from a partnership between Electrolux and the company’s worldwide coatings supplier, PPG Industries, which not only made the color possible, but also made its application more environmentally friendly.

From PPG Industries Inc. 24 Aug 2009

Dotmar Helps Engineers Design with Thermoplastics

As engineering plastics replace metals in many applications, engineers are required to come to grips with the different performance parameters to ensure they specify the right thermoplastic material for the application.

From Dotmar EPP Pty Ltd 24 Aug 2009

Coperion Improves and Extends Range of Waterring Pelletizers of Polystyrene and Polyoxymethylene

Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart/Germany, has not only improved its range of WRG waterring pelletizers for the pelletizing of polystyrene (PS) and polyoxymethylene (POM) but also extended it by the addition of new sizes of machine.

From Linde plc 24 Aug 2009

Siemens Introduce Endless Steel Strip Production

The Italian steel producer Arvedi and Siemens have joined forces to usher in a new era in steel production. Liquid steel can now be processed in a single production step from casting and rolling through to coiling of the finished metal sheet This first "endless strip production" (ESP) facility has now started operating in Cremona, Italy, and is set to produce over two million metric tons of steel per year.

24 Aug 2009

Rio Tinto Receives Clearance to Sell Coal Mine

Rio Tinto has received clearance from the US Federal Trade Commission on the pending sale of its Jacobs Ranch coal mine to Arch Coal, Inc. The parties will move ahead to close the transaction which is expected within the...

24 Aug 2009

DuPont Continues to Invest in Solar Energy

The future continues to look bright for solar energy, and DuPont is making investments that reflect global trends driving the company’s science – one of which is decreasing dependence on fossil fuels.

24 Aug 2009