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Vale Add Flexibility to Long Term Iron Ore Contracts

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) clarifies it is making its long term iron ore commercial contracts conditions flexible. Currently, Vale is receiving 80% of the sales in cash and 20% will be received at a latter date wh...

20 Apr 2009

New Low VOC Polymer Formulations Suited Contact Adhesives

Kraton Polymers LLC (Kraton), a leading global producer of engineered polymers, announces a series of new formulations designed to support lower Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) requirements and reduce costs associated wi...

20 Apr 2009

GSA Awarded Design and Construction Contract for Sustainable Building at NASA

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a contract to Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, Baltimore, Md. , for the design and construction of an energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly and sustainab...

20 Apr 2009

Hybrid Transmissions Designed Specifically for for Off-Highway Vehicles

At INTERMAT 2009 today, Dana Holding Corporation (NYSE: DAN) introduced new hybrid drivetrain technology specifically engineered for off-highway vehicles. A concept transmission in the evaluation phase, the Spicer(R) ...

20 Apr 2009

Trelleborg Receive Fine from US DoJ for Marine Oil Hoses and Fenders

The US Department of Justice and the Trelleborg Group companies concerned have reached agreements in the previously announced competition investigations regarding certain types of marine oil hoses and marine fenders. The...

20 Apr 2009

Air Liquide to Demonstrate Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell Technologies

Air Liquide is leading a $14 million hydrogen energy project to demonstrate an array of innovative hydrogen energy and fuel cell technologies operating on the site of the Montréal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and another international airport to be announced at a later date.

20 Apr 2009

Advant Solar and ASU Partner on Next Generation Solar Photovoltaic Technology

Arizona State University and Advent Solar, Inc. today announced a development partnership to further the advancement of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. As part of the initiative, members of Arizona State Universit...

20 Apr 2009

New System Identifies Bugs in Aircraft Collision Systems

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a new method for systematically identifying bugs in aircraft collision avoidance systems, high-speed train controls and other comp...

20 Apr 2009

Highly Effective Solvent Removes Epoxy and Polyester Resins

Applied Chemical Laboratories, Inc., a pioneer in green chemical technology, has developed a highly effective, environmentally-friendly solvent formulated to remove epoxy and polyester resins from manufacturing equipment...

20 Apr 2009

QD Vision Wins Major Grant to Develop Solid State Lighting Technologies

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, today announced it has been selected by the Department of Energy (DoE) to receive more than $700,000 in funding for a project that will sig...

20 Apr 2009

Engineered Nanoparticles are a Better Way to Deliver Drugs Directly to Tumors

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology has demonstrated a better way to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors b...

20 Apr 2009

Reconfigurable Computer Chip Seeks to be Efficient and Flexible

Technology is struggling to meet demands for high-performance, specialised computing systems. A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable chip that is both efficient and flexible.

20 Apr 2009

Nanoparticles that Target Tumor Cells

Dr. Esther Chang describes the most recent developments in human trials of the first systemic, non-viral, tumor-targeted, nanoparticle method designed to restore normal gene function to tumor cells while completely bypas...

20 Apr 2009

Veeco's MOCVD System Qualified for Production of High Brightness LEDs

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Shandong Raysun Huaguang Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (Huaguang) of China has qualified Veeco's gallium nitride (GaN) and arsenic phosphide (AsP) metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems for high volume production of red and blue high-brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs).

From Veeco 20 Apr 2009

Smaller, Faster Transistors Using Gallium Arsenide and Nanotechnology

Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels made of gallium arsenide. In a...

20 Apr 2009