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Brembo and SGL Team Up to Produce Carbon Ceramic Brake Discs

Brembo S.p.A. – a world leader in high performance brake systems – and SGL Group – The Carbon Company – announced today the contract closing of a joint venture for carbon ceramic brake discs, with each parent company owning a 50% share in the new entity.

31 May 2009

Observation Will Help Improve the Efficiency of Automotive Catalytic Converters

The chemical mechanism that occurs on the surface of an automotive catalytic converter has been deciphered thanks to an observation speed record established by Frédéric Thibault-Strarzyk at the Laboratoire Cata...

31 May 2009

New High Purity Gels Reduce Moisture Permeability by 80% Over Other Silicone Gels

NuSil Technology, a cutting-edge manufacturer of silicone-based materials for aerospace, aircraft, electronics and photonics industries, will release a new line of high-purity gels at Sensors Expo 2009 next month in Rose...

31 May 2009

White and Reflective Metal Roofs Help Significantly Reduce Cooling Bills

Recently, the U.S. Secretary of Energy encouraged Americans to paint their roofs white, in an effort to reduce global warming by both conserving energy and reflecting sunlight back into space. Speaking in London prior to...

31 May 2009

Packaging Awards Honor Sustainable Solutions

A diverse group of businesses in multiple market segments are turning to sustainable packaging solutions to improve the environmental profile of their product offerings, according to DuPont as the company today announced...

31 May 2009

Increasing Scrap Prices Drives Steel Long Products Prices Up

Long product consumption continues at a low ebb in the US. Any improvement in nonresidential building and government financed infrastructure projects is unlikely to boost steel demand until late 2009/early 2010. Domestic...

31 May 2009

DSM Swaps Polycarbonate Business for Polyamide Business

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) today announce that they have signed a memorandum of understanding for D...

From DSM 31 May 2009

First Rendering of Superhydrophobic Silicon Separator Used in Smart Nanobattery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. today released a 3D rendering of its superhydrophobic silicon separator that is a key element in the Smart NanoBattery architecture.

31 May 2009

Goodyear Commence Plans to Develop New Headquarters in Akron

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced today the sale of certain of its Akron properties to Industrial Realty Group (IRG) as a first step toward finalizing plans for developing a new headquarters in Akron. Goo...

31 May 2009

Wafer Manufacturer Delivers One Millionth Wafer to Cabot Microelectronics

SVTC Technologies, the leading provider of development and commercialization services for silicon-based technologies, today marked the delivery of over a million test wafers by honoring a key customer at the 2009 IEEE In...

31 May 2009

Understanding Lignocellulose Synthesis May Unlock Sustainable Biofuel Production

Jeffrey Catchmark sees the quest to unlock the mysteries of lignocellulose synthesis and assembly as one of the most important research pursuits of the next century.

31 May 2009

New UBM PVD System Redefines Productivity and Reliability for Chip Packaging

Applied Materials, Inc. today introduced its Applied Charger™ UBM PVD system that defines a new standard in metal deposition productivity and reliability for chip packaging.

From Applied Materials Inc 31 May 2009

Applied Materials Launch The Only Copper CVD System Qualified for 32 and 22nm Production

Applied Materials, Inc. today launched its Applied Endura® CuBS RFX PVD system, the only copper barrier/seed deposition technology qualified for 32 and 22nm production by logic and flash memory manufacturers.

From Applied Materials Inc 31 May 2009

Do Air Filled Membranes, Rods and Cables Have a Place in the Aerospace Industry

Tensairity elements made of air filled membrane assemblies, rods and cables have already made a name for themselves in the construction world as extremely light yet strong load-bearing structures. But is this new technology also suitable for use in the aerospace industry, for example to create novel wings for kites?

29 May 2009

$5m Grant for Microchannel Reactors for Biofuel Production

Microchannel reactors provide the key to intensifying the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reaction, opening up the possibility of economical and environmentally friendly distributed production of third generation transportation bio...

29 May 2009