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Limited Edition Shelby Mustang GT500 Gets Alcoa Dura-Bright Wheel Finish

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Shelby 427 race held recently at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was led by a pack of Shelby pace cars fitted with forged aluminum wheels featuring Alcoa’s patented Dura-Bright® technology...

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 19 Mar 2009

Forged Aluminum Wheels Set New Standard for Weight and Strength

Alcoa today
announced that its Commercial Vehicle Wheels business has launched an innovative
new line of forged wheels using a new proprietary process that results in the
industry's lightest forged aluminum wheel but with even greater strength,
and a superior finish on both sides that is six times brighter than any wheel
in its class.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 19 Mar 2009

Latest Generation Xenon Recovery System Released by Air Products

Air Products
today introduced two new versions of its XeCovery xenon recovery system.

19 Mar 2009

Air Products Brings Another Air Separation Unit On Line to Supply Chinese Steel Maker

Air Products
today announced that it recently brought on-stream its third air separation
facility (ASU) in Tangshan, Hebei Province, Northern China to supply oxygen,
nitrogen and liquid argon to Tangshan Guofeng Steel Co Ltd and its other local
customers.

19 Mar 2009

New HDPE and MDPE Plant Licenses INEOS Technology

INEOS Technologies has licensed its ‘Innovene S Process’ for the manufacture of HDPE and MDPE to China Petrochemical International Company Limited for use at Sinopec Wuhan Company in Wuhan, China. The 300...

18 Mar 2009

Plastic Films in Agriculture Extend Growing Seasons

Plastics may be getting a bad press in some areas, but in agriculture they are contributing to feeding the world. These films extend the growing season and raise yield, which is critical as the population grows but the a...

18 Mar 2009

New Market Report on the Solar Cell Market

Solar energy panel sales were up 48% to 5.6 Gigawatts (GW), but we need a stimulus package to create jobs in the U.S., according to a report Opportunities in The Solar Cell Market For Thin Film Technology, recently publi...

18 Mar 2009

Eastman Tritan Copolyester Approved for Use In Japanese Food Containers and Packaging

Eastman
Chemical Company announced today that the Japan Hygienic Olefin and Styrene
Plastics Association (JHOSPA), which publishes voluntary standards for certain
polymeric materials and products for use as food containers, packaging materials
and utensils, has amended its list of certified polymers to include the composition
of Eastman Tritan copolyester.

From Eastman 18 Mar 2009

Declining Global Aluminum Market Results in Temporary Closure of Alumina Plant

Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) has announced plans to temporarily shut
down production from May 15 due to the unprecedented fall in global aluminium
markets and corresponding drop in alumina demand.

From Hydro - Aluminium Alloys and Products 18 Mar 2009

Chemtura's US Operations File for Chapter 11

Chemtura Corporation (NYSE: CEM) today announced that it and 26 of its U.S. affiliates (together, the "Company") have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code i...

18 Mar 2009

Making Photodetectors Truly Green Devices

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manu...

18 Mar 2009

Zirconia-Based Coating Helps Improve Performance of Turbocharged Subaru

An importer and modifier of Japanese performance cars has been so impressed with
a zirconia-based thermal coating that it has returned for more. Following the
success of its Type-25, Litchfield's new Subaru Impreza STI Type-20 is the
latest to benefit from Zircotec's
thermal coating, with the enhanced heat management helping the cars twinscroll
turbo spool up to speed 500-750rpm sooner than normal.

18 Mar 2009

Wacker Posts Record Financial Records Despite Tough Economic Climate

For fiscal 2008, Wacker Chemie AG posted new records for both sales and net income. The global economic crisis did, however, increasingly impede sales and earnings in the second half of the year. The result was also impa...

18 Mar 2009

Window Panes Detect Movement and Work as An Active Part of Security Systems

A novel

motion sensor developed by the Fraunhofer

Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer

Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin could provide even more

security in future, enabling window panes and glass doors to detect movements

thanks to a special coating.

18 Mar 2009

Noted MIT Scientist Launches American Chemical Society Meeting

Angela M. Belcher, Ph.D., a noted scientist from Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT), will deliver the Keynote Address in Nanoscience here today

at the American

Chemical Society's 237th National Meeting.

18 Mar 2009