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The Market for Semiconductors in Alternative Energy Applications Expected to Grow

Despite a sluggish forecast for the overall high-tech industry in the near term, alternative energies technologies are expected to grow at a 40% annual rate through 2012, and semiconductors used in these applications wil...

27 Feb 2009

Radici Group Gain Environmental Certification for Polyamide Production

Radici Yarn SpA -an Italian company belonging to the RadiciGroup Fibres business area -has obtained UNI EN ISO 14001:2004 certification for its environmental management system related to the development, manufacture and ...

27 Feb 2009

Canon Produces Green Calculators from Recycled Materials

As part of its commitment to the environment, Canon Australia has launched a new range of "green" calculators that have been manufactured using recycled materials from end-of-life Canon photocopiers.

27 Feb 2009

Horizontally Aligned Nanowires Used to Create Cost Efficient Lighting Solution

Researchers at Northeastern created a network of nanowires that can be scaled up more efficiently and cost-effectively to create displays such as the NASDAQ sign in New York City's Times Square. Using Gallium nit...

26 Feb 2009

Aerospace Epoxy Survives Cryogenic Wind Tunnel Testing

A uniquely formulated epoxy adhesive has come to the rescue in an extraordinarily
difficult cryogenic wind tunnel model bonding application. The state of the
art wind tunnel poses a difficult challenge to engineering thermoplastics, not
only in terms of the low temperatures and vacuum conditions, but in terms of
thermal, thermal cycling and mechanical shear stresses.

From Master Bond Inc. 26 Feb 2009

Wacker to Construct Hyperpure Polysilicon Plant in the US

Wacker Chemie AG has mid-term plans to construct a new hyperpure polycrystalline silicon facility in the US and has purchased land in the State of Tennessee for this purpose. The Munich-based chemical group announced the...

26 Feb 2009

Micromeritics Award Pressure Sorption Analyzer for Promising Research on Porous Metal-Organic-Frameworks

After careful consideration by a special Grant Selection Committee appointed
by the president of the company, Micromeritics'
grant award winner for the first quarter of 2009 has been selected. An ASAP
2050 Xtended Pressure Sorption Analyzer has been awarded to the Physics Department
at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

From Micromeritics Instrument Corporation 26 Feb 2009

Wheelabrator to Replace Blast Machine at Filtration Specialist

THE world’s largest and most diverse filtration, separations and purification company, saw Wheelabrator Group as the first choice when looking to install a new blast solution at its base in Portsmouth. The esta...

26 Feb 2009

BASF Contributes to Environmentally Friendly High Performance Sports Car

Lightning is expected to strike at the 79th International Motor Show in Geneva – but only figuratively speaking. LAMPO – "lightning" – is the name of the environmentally friendly sports car prototype that is certain to a...

26 Feb 2009

Aluminium Producer Makes Adjustments to Deal with Building Downturn

Although activity in the building industry in Europe remains relatively stable,
in the midst of the global economic crisis, Hydro
has made adjustments in its aluminium building systems operations that will
result in annualized cost savings of more than EUR 5 million.

26 Feb 2009