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John Crane Buys Hydrodynamic Bearings Business

JOHN CRANE, a division of global technology business Smiths Group, today announces the purchase of Orion Corporation, a leading U.S.-based designer and manufacturer of hydrodynamic bearings for energy and general industr...

30 Mar 2009

The Winners and Losers in Solar Cell Market

Several factors have converged over the past several months that will impact the solar cell market, according to a report Opportunities in The Solar Market For Crystalline and Thin Film Solar Cells, recently published by...

30 Mar 2009

HB Fuller Acquires Developer and Manufacturer of Flexible Packaging Adhesives

H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nordic Adhesives, a developer and manufacturer of flexible packaging adhesives, based in Buxtehude, Germany. Nordic generat...

30 Mar 2009

PPG Teams Up with Street Rod Painter

Street-rod painter Charley Hutton has teamed with PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) automotive refinish business for a number of automotive projects, such as custom painting of the Kurt Busch Foundation Dodge Challenger. ...

From PPG Industries Inc. 30 Mar 2009

Particle Detector and Nanomaterials Projects at BNL Win Awards

Two large construction projects at the U.S.
Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory - the U.S. ATLAS
Detector Project and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - have been
named winners of the DOE Secretary's Award for Achievement.

30 Mar 2009

Applied Materials to Collaborate on Wafer Thinning Processes for TSV's

Applied Materials, Inc. and DISCO Corporation today announced a joint effort to develop wafer thinning processes for fabricating through-silicon vias (TSVs) in 3-dimensional (3-D) semiconductors. The two companies will b...

From Element Materials Technology 30 Mar 2009

GoNano Wins Grant to Develop Novel Electrodes for Next Generation Ultracapacitors

GoNano Technologies, Inc.,

a Moscow, Idaho based nanotechnology company specializing in the development

of high surface area Nanospring technology, recently received a Phase

I SBIR grant in the amount of $97,761 from the National Science Foundation to

develop novel electrodes for next generation ultracapacitors.

29 Mar 2009

Environmentally Friendly Coating that Protects Metals from Corrosion

A new, environmentally friendly coating that protects metals against corrosion in seawater has been developed by a team of researchers from Sheffield Hallam University. At the Society for General Microbiology meeting in ...

29 Mar 2009

Vale to Exploit Massive Mozambique Coal Deposit

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale)
informs that the construction of the Moatize Project, in the province of Tete,
Mozambique, is in progress.

29 Mar 2009

Siemens to Provide Complete Electrical Solutions for Newsprint Paper Machine

Siemens
Industry Solutions Division is providing the electrical equipment for a new
newsprint paper machine belonging to Papierfabrik Palm.

29 Mar 2009

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