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Electrical Discharge Pen Prevents Damage to Valuable Bearings

SKF,
the leading knowledge engineering company, has launched an Electrical Discharge
Detector Pen enabling electrical discharge in bearings to be detected quickly
and remotely.

10 Feb 2009

Morgan Advanced Materials Introduce Advanced Core Materials for Investment Casing

Morgan
Technical Ceramics Certech (MTC Certech), a leader in the investment casting
industry, has introduced its advanced P52 core material used for producing ceramic
cores that remain extremely stable with the high temperature super alloys now
being used to cast quieter and more fuel-efficient jet engines.

From Morgan Advanced Materials 10 Feb 2009

Dow to Exit Solution Vinyl Resins Market and Close US Plant

Consistent with its strategy to focus on high-return, high-growth businesses that deliver consistent earnings, while withdrawing from non-strategic businesses, The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") announced today i...

9 Feb 2009

Flexible Insulating Foam Weathers the Economic Storm

GREAT STUFF™ Insulating Foam Sealant manufactured by The
Dow Chemical Company, found a silver lining to the stormy 2008 economy.

9 Feb 2009

New 7-Series BMW First to Use New Aluminium Technology

The new BMW 7 Series sedan, which made its debut in November 2008 with a host
of "world firsts," cruises out of showrooms with lightweight door
components made from a unique aluminum product called Novelis
Fusion.

9 Feb 2009

Air Products Extends Global Alliance for Industrial Gas Plant Construction

Air Products
and Technip today announced a long-term extension reaching beyond the year 2020
for the global business alliance that has already designed, constructed and
is operating 30 hydrogen and synthesis gas production plants worldwide.

9 Feb 2009

Plastics Solutions Provider to Set Up SE Asian Logistics in Singapore

Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has signed a service contract with CWT Logistics Pte. Ltd., Singapore, so as to establish the Borouge South East Asia (SEA) Logistics Hub and ...

From Borouge 9 Feb 2009

Final Call for Papers for TCT Additive Manufacturing Conference

This years TCT conference will explore more deeply than ever before the realities of additive manufacture and will look at whether the promises and reported benefits are actually fact or fiction. Taking into account ...

9 Feb 2009

Continuous Online Dimensional Control Helps Gain Market Share for Cellular PVC Decking

Cellular PVC is gaining strength as the material of choice for deck systems as an alternative to natural wood materials. Cellular PVC (also called foamed PVC) compounds are gaining market share due to favourable cost, ea...

9 Feb 2009

Conference Will Address Nanomaterials in Medical Applications

On March 4 – 6, 2009, international experts will gather in Berlin for the NanoMed 2009 conference to discuss the state of the art in medical applications of nanotechnology. Medical and healthcare application...

9 Feb 2009

Thin Concrete Joint Building System Improves Energy Efficiency

The H+H Thin Joint
system creates a high insulation specification of aircrete walling as a Modern
Method of Construction for the stylish five-storey Viewpoint apartment block,
built by Bugler Developments for Asra Housing Association in London.

9 Feb 2009

Editors Choice Award for Eurotherm's EPower SCR Power Controller

Eurotherm, a leading manufacturer of industrial instrumentation for process control and data acquisition, announces that its EPower™ SCR power controller with Predictive Load Management (PLM) (US patent pending) ha...

9 Feb 2009

IMEC Low-Power 60GHz Solutions in Digital 45nm CMOS

At this week's International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents
a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm
digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave the way to second-generation
60GHz radios by 2010 which will rely solely on plain CMOS, true one-chip solutions.

From IMEC 9 Feb 2009

Organic RFID Transponder Chip Makes Big Progress

At this week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Holst Centre
- founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC
and the Dutch research center TNO - presents world's first 128 bit organic RFID
transponder chip with Manchester encoding, anti-collision protocol and record
high data rate.

9 Feb 2009

Innovative Technology for Disposing of Toxic Metal Working Fluids

Microbial Solutions Ltd, an Oxfordshire company developing award-winning innovative technologies to assess and dispose of toxic metal working fluids used in the engineering industry, has completed a successful trial of a...

9 Feb 2009