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Wind Turbine Low Voltage Ride Through Solution Deal Signed by AMSC and ACCIONA Energy

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received an order worth more than $10 million from ACCIONA Energy, a division of ACCIONA SA (MC: ANA)...

13 May 2009

ST and Soitec Cooperation will Lead to BSI Product Manufacturing for Mobile Consumer Markets

STMicroelectronics, one of the world's leading semiconductor companies and a world leader in CMOS imaging technology, and Soitec, the world's leading supplier of engineered substrates, today announced an exclusiv...

13 May 2009

Single-Step Process Promises Cheaper and More Powerful Electronic Devices

Researchers at UCLA have developed a new method for producing a hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube, or G-CNT, for potential use as a transparent conductor in solar cells and consumer electronic devices. These G-CNTs could p...

13 May 2009

Global Leader in High-Value Polymers Announces Alliance with Nano Terra

Bayer MaterialScience, a global leader in high-value polymers, announced today an alliance with Nano Terra Inc., a leading surface engineering and nanotechnology co-development company. Nano Terra will apply its uniq...

13 May 2009

A Complete Overview of Issues Surrounding Refillable Packaging

Reusable and recyclable packaging are shooting up the news, public, and political agenda, and increasingly can offer a cutting edge to the growing number of environmentally-conscious consumers. But what makes a refillabl...

13 May 2009

Car Makers using More Aluminum Than Ever Before

More aluminium than ever before is being used in North America-produced passenger cars and trucks. The light metal accounts for 8.6 percent of average vechicle curb weight this year, compared to 2 percent in 1970 and 5.1 percent in 1990.

From Hydro - Aluminium Alloys and Products 13 May 2009

WACKER Complete Expansion of Shanghai Technical Center

The Munich-based chemical Group WACKER has recently finished expansion of its Shanghai Technical Center located at Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. The facility now houses over ten labs for WACKER’s silicone and polymer activities, serving a wide range of industries from construction, coatings and adhesives to electronics, textile, cosmetics and home care.

12 May 2009

New Range of Torsion Testing Equipment Available from ADMET

ADMET Inc., a provider of integrated materials testing systems, is introducing a new line of torsion testing machines, controllers and accessories. Called eXpert 81T, the torsion testers are table top units with capacities to 200 Nm (1,800 lb-in).

From Admet, Inc. - Materials Testing Equipment 12 May 2009

Aluminum Architectural Products Help Green Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh

Alcoa announced today that a range of its Kawneer architectural aluminum products are contributing to the “green” campus of the newly constructed $625 million Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The facility incorporates Kawneer products that maximize daylighting and thermal performance, including curtain wall, sunshades and thermally broken windows and doors.

12 May 2009

PPG to Invest in a New Acid Burner Unit

PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has announced that it will invest nearly $6 million to install a new acid burner unit at its Natrium, W.Va., plant. The new unit, which is expected to be operational by late 2009, will help the...

From PPG Industries Inc. 12 May 2009

UN Stockholm Convention Concludes that only Certain Lower Brominated Diphenylethers are POPs

The 4th meeting of the Convention of the Parties (COP4) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) decided on 8 May to list only certain lower brominated substances as POPs. These substances were...

12 May 2009

Attorneys and Experts to Meet to Discuss Chinese Drywall Disaster

Attorneys and experts will gather in New Orleans on June 18 to share information and network on the latest health and property damage controversy involving building materials: drywall imported from China. They also are g...

12 May 2009

Major Funding for US Research Infrastructure

The National Science Foundation today announced a special opportunity for funding projects that strengthen the research infrastructure in the nation's science and engineering research and education institutions. Funding of $300 million was provided for the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.

12 May 2009

Most Powerful Femtosecond Laser on Show at LASER World of Photonics 2009

Femtosecond lasers (fs-lasers) are the key to ultra-precision processing. Whether in medicine, electronics, aerospace or solar technology, thin coatings can be removed, fiber-reinforced plastics drilled and ceramic components' surfaces structured using fs-lasers.

12 May 2009

New Boat to be Built Entirely of Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Prepreg

Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM), a recognized worldwide leader in nanomaterials applications, unveiled a new boat to be built by Strategic Composites and made entirely with ZPM's next generation carbon nanotube (CN...

12 May 2009