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First Entirely Mercury-Free HID Headlamps Manufactured by OSRAM

With the Xenarc D3 and D4 high-pressure gas discharge lamps and matching D3-Xenaelectron control gear OSRAM is the first manufacturer to provide entirely mercury-free HID headlamp systems. As such, the lamps with the &qu...

14 May 2009

Energy Saving Metal Halide Lamps Illuminate Berlin Landmark

Hardly any other building symbolises Germany like Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. Which is why lighting the Pariser Platz in front of the monument is so vitally important. After all, the world-famous square ought to look ...

14 May 2009

Smallest RGB Multi ChipLED Developed Especially for High-Resolution Full-Color Video Screens

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has developed the smallest RGB Multi ChipLED especially for high-resolution full-color video screens with large diagonals and small viewing distances. The tiny dimensions of these components enable a very large number of pixels to be accommodated in a small display area. The LED is housed in a black package that reflects hardly any ambient light at all. The LED emits light in brilliant colors with excellent contrast.

From Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 14 May 2009

Novelis Makes Commitment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Novelis Inc. announced today that its North American organization has established its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Climate Leaders program. Novelis h...

From Novelis Corp 14 May 2009

BASF Implement Short-Term Work Schedules for 20 Production Plants

BASF SE is introducing short-time work in the coming months for about 1,000 employees in 20 production plants and associated service units at its site in Ludwigshafen. These measures are necessary mainly at production units for pigments, intermediates, petrochemicals and inorganics.

From BASF Corporation 14 May 2009

Husk Insulation Wins MIT Clean Energy Prize

The MIT Clean Energy Prize has announced that Husk Insulation was selected from more than 100 student entries from 40 colleges and universities across the country to receive the $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Grand Prize spon...

14 May 2009

Zymera to Create Self Illuminating Quantum Dots for Bioimaging

Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, and Zymera, Inc., today announced a licensing and supply agreement that gives Zymera rights to Life Technologies' extensi...

14 May 2009

Researchers Capture a Single Electron in a Carbon Nanotube

Researchers from the Kavli Institute of NanoScience in Delft are the first to have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach ...

14 May 2009

Construction of Artificial Supramolecular Structures a Step Closer

Nature has long perfected the construction of nanomachines, but David González and his fellow researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and Utrecht University under the leadership of Spinoza Award winner B...

14 May 2009

Class Action Against Teflon Cookware Dismissed

Earlier this month, DuPont achieved a legal victory when a federal court in Des Moines, Iowa, dismissed a consolidated group of 22 cases filed on behalf of consumers who purchased cookware with Teflon® non-stick coating.

14 May 2009

Silicone Solutions Help Protect City and Rural Infrastructures

Innovative silicone materials from Dow Corning are helping building owners, highway agencies and transportation companies to improve cost effectiveness and performance of their infrastructure.

From Dow Corning 14 May 2009

Eastman Chemicals to Showcase Biocatalytic Process for Polymer Production

Eastman Chemical Company will showcase its green biocatalytic process at NYSCC Suppliers' Day at the Raritan Center in Edison, NJ on May 12-13, 2009 at booth # 1221. The company will also highlight its portfolio of c...

From Eastman 14 May 2009

HeidelbergCement Sells Australian Aspahlting Business

In the context of the announced divestment programme, HeidelbergCement has sold its asphalt operating line in Australia. The 50% stake in Pioneer Road Service (PRS) and the whole of Specialised Tanker Transport were acqu...

14 May 2009

Wacker to Build New Polysilicon Plant

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a long-term €400 million loan to finance Wacker Chemie AG's new Nünchritz (Saxony) polysilicon production facility. The Munich-based chemical company announce...

14 May 2009

UC Davis Scientists Awarded $2 million to Develop New Electron Microscope

A proposal by a team of UC Davis scientists to develop the world's first electron microscope capable of filming live biological processes has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

14 May 2009