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Airbus Extends Thermoplastic Composites Research and Technology Agreement

Airbus and the Dutch Aerospace industry signed an extension to their Memorandum of Understanding for strategic cooperation in Research and Technology in place since 2005, and initiated in this framework a specific collab...

29 Mar 2009

Metamaterials Used for the First Time in Invisibility Cloak

Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc., an antenna and electronics firm, today demonstrated the first wideband, high fidelity performance from metamaterials. Metamaterials are man-made structures that are built from patterns of e...

29 Mar 2009

Superhydrophilic Surfaces Created on a Glass

Working at the nanoscale level, University
of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic
surfaces on a glass substrate.

29 Mar 2009

BASF Supplies Automakers with Nylon Materials for Next Generation Dual Clutch Transmissions

Now the next generation of this complex family dual clutch transmissions is being serially employed by numerous car manufacturers. The plastic parts
of the integrated control units for these dual-clutch transmissions used at
VW, Audi, Ford and BMW are made of Ultramid® A3WG6, a proven PA 66 produced
by BASF.

29 Mar 2009

Russian Steelmaker Starts Work on New Blast Furnace

NLMK has begun the assembly
of BF-7 steel structures at its main site in Lipetsk. The new production facility,
with capacity of 3.4 million tonnes of hot pig iron per year, is the first to
be constructed in Russia for 20 years.

29 Mar 2009

Web Service Provides Access to Chemical Directory and Other Useful Tools

Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced the release of the DiscoveryGate Web Service. By providing programmable access to the DiscoveryGate content platform, this new service accelerates scientific workflows, decision mak...

29 Mar 2009

US Steel Makers Feeling the Effects of GFC

Mill outages continue in the US, with operating levels now under 50 percent. There is still negative pressure on transaction prices as sales fail to recover. All the major steel consuming sectors are affected by the fina...

29 Mar 2009

Triexta, A New Family High Performance Fiber from DuPont

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has determined that fibers made from
PTT, the latest polymer innovation from DuPont,
offer a unique combination of attributes which merit a new generic name, triexta.

29 Mar 2009

Carbon Materials for Catalysts Market Covered in New Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Carbon Materials for Catalysis" to their offering. This is the first comprehensive book covering all aspects of t...

29 Mar 2009

ThyssenKrupp to Undergo Major Reorganization in the Pursuit of Efficiency

At its extraordinary meeting today the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp
AG resolved to realign the Group. It decided to reorganize the five segments
Steel, Stainless, Technologies, Elevator and Services into two divisions. The
new Materials division will combine the activities of the current Steel, Stainless
and Services segments.

29 Mar 2009

New Market Report Covers Solution Proessing of Inorganic Materials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Solution Processing of Inorganic Materials" to their offering. The search for electronic materials that can be ch...

29 Mar 2009

New Extrusion Technology Allows Extruders to Improve Properties of Plastic Sheet and Film

An innovation in flat extrusion die systems makes it possible to multiply
key functional layers in cast film and sheet, substantially improving properties
without increasing either overall thickness or raw material content, it was
announced today by Extrusion
Dies Industries.

29 Mar 2009

New Standard for Quantifying Particle Size to be Launched at ACHEMA

At ACHEMA 2009 (11-15 May; Frankfurt, Germany) Whitehouse
Scientific will launch a new Multimodal Standard that is designed to address
the challenge of resloving particle size using the latest techniques.

From Whitehouse Scientific 29 Mar 2009

Arburg to Launch New Machine Range High Performance Energy Efficient Plastic Processing Machines

Until now, high performance and energy-efficient operation were machine features
that could seldom be achieved simultaneously. At the 2009 Technology Days, Arburg
is to launch a new machine range - the new Allrounder H - onto the market, which
can achieve both to perfection.

From Arburg GmbH 29 Mar 2009

PolyOne Picks Up Supplier of the Year Award

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced that it has received the Supplier of the Year Award from Pass & Seymour/Legrand. This awar...

29 Mar 2009