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Foster Wheeler Acquire Offshore Engineering Business

Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that its Houston-headquartered operating unit, Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, has completed its acquisition of the assets of the offshore engineering division of OPE Hold...

1 Apr 2009

PPG Establishes First Waterborne Automotive Paint Training Center in China

PPG Industries recently established the first waterborne automotive paint training
center in a college in China at Shanghai Communications Polytechnic (SCP).

From PPG Industries Inc. 1 Apr 2009

New Version Pulse Tube Cryocooler of Successful Physical Property Measurement Device under Development

LOT

+ Quantum Design announces that it has a new development project to produce

a Pulse Tube Cryocooler-based version of its popular Physical Property Measurement

System (PPMS).

1 Apr 2009

Nanosilicon Could Improve Devices that Convert Thermal Energy to Electrical Energy

University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a new method for using nanoscale silicon that could improve devices that convert thermal energy into electrical energy. The team, led by Erwin W. Mueller Pr...

31 Mar 2009

Fuel Cell Hurdle Overcome with Palladium Catalysts

Two Brown University chemists

have overcome a challenge to fuel cell reactions using palladium catalysts.

The scientists produced palladium nanoparticles with about 40 percent greater

active surface area than commercially available palladium particles, and the

nanoparticles remain intact four times longer.

31 Mar 2009

Optomec Awarded Development Project to Eliminate Solder from Electronics

Optomec announced today that the company, along with a major Aerospace OEM, was awarded a project to eliminate solder from the manufacture of electronics. The $300,000 proof of concept project is structured as a one-year...

31 Mar 2009

Nano Terra to Use Surface Functionalizing Technology for Water Treatment

Pentair, Inc. (NYSE: PNR) and Nano Terra, Inc., announced today they are forming a strategic alliance in water treatment. Pentair is a global leader in water movement, treatment, and storage technologies; and Nano Terra ...

31 Mar 2009

Magnetism May be the Answer for Bioengineers Trying to Grow New Tissue

The power of magnetism may address a major problem facing bioengineers as

they try to create new tissue -- getting human cells to not only form structures,

but to stimulate the growth of blood vessels to nourish that growth.

31 Mar 2009

New process Opens the Door for Graphene to be Used in Several Commercial Applications

A method for creating dispersed and chemically modified graphene sheets in a wide variety of organic solvents has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin engineering team led by Professor Rod Ruoff, opening the...

31 Mar 2009

Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Technique Used to Create First Ever Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3D Structure

Researchers at the Commerce Department's National

Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have

capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer

(billionth of a meter) level and used it to develop a method for engineering

the first-ever nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional

surfaces.

31 Mar 2009

New Technique for Mass Producing Computer Chips under Development

Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils. Experts believe that graphene -- the sheet-like form of carbon found in gr...

31 Mar 2009

Sandvik Tooling Slash Workforce

Sandvik Tooling served notice of termination of employment covering a total of 490 employees in Sweden. The notice applies to 120 employees in Sandviken, 350 employees in Gimo and 20 employees in Stockholm. The reduction...

31 Mar 2009

AMS Technologies Signs Exclusive Semiconductor Distribution Deal

AMS Technologies
AG, based in Martinsried near Munich, is proud to announce an exclusive
distribution agreement with San Diego based C3 Semiconductors LLC. The agreement
entitles the pan European distributor to sell C3 Semis semiconductor products
throughout Europe.

From AMS Technologies AG 31 Mar 2009

New Understanding of Materials Behavior May Require Revision of Properties

Plasticity in certain semiconductor materials at the nanoscale is actually linked to phase transformation rather than dislocation nucleation, as previously thought. This is shown by the results of an international resear...

31 Mar 2009

Altana Acquite High Performance Additives Business

The specialty chemicals Group ALTANA (Pink Sheets:AAAGY)(FWB:ALT)(GER:ALT) has acquired the high-performance additives business of the Frankfurt based DyStar group effective as of March 30, 2009. The acquired business wi...

31 Mar 2009