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Herbal Infusers Made with New Generation Eastman Copolymer

Eastman
Chemical Company announced today that its customer Gamila Products, a retail
brand of Gamil Design based in Raleigh, N.C., has introduced a new collection
of tea and herbal infusers named The Teastick Gems. The product line is made
with Eastman Tritan™, a new-generation copolyester that balances the properties
of easy processing, clarity, dishwasher durability, toughness, and heat and
chemical resistance.

17 Dec 2008

World's Smallest SRAM Cell Developed by IBM and Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and AMD (NYSE:AMD) announced that they have together developed a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell that has an area of only 0.128 square micrometers (µm2), t...

17 Dec 2008

Dow to Shut 3 Emulsion Polymer Facilities

The Dow Emulsion Polymers Business has announced that it will permanently close three of its manufacturing facilities in King’s Lynn (United Kingdom), Varennes (Canada) and Pittsburg (United States). These faciliti...

17 Dec 2008

Uhde Wins Contract to Build An Aromatics Plant in China

Uhde has been awarded a contract by Risun Chemical Company of China to build an aromatics plant at Tangshan (Hebei Province), some 150km east of Beijing. The new plant will produce top-quality benzene, toluene and xylene...

17 Dec 2008

Sandia Start Work on a New Ion Beam Laboratory

Groundbreaking for the new Ion Beam Laboratory is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec.
16 at 1 p.m. on Kirtland Air Force Base east of Sandia’s
Processing Engineering & Technologies Lab (PETL) building.

17 Dec 2008

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Honored for Innovation

The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) recently received the 2008 Award for Industrial
Innovation from the Luxembourg Business Federation (FEDIL). The company was
honored for its Goodyear OptiGrip(R) tire with SmartWear(R) Technology.

17 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotube Coated Smart Yarn Could Detect Blood and Monitor Health

A carbon nanotube-coated “smart yarn” that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health, engineers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated. “Curr...

17 Dec 2008

Enironmentally Friendly Car Makes Extensive Use of Polypropylene

A lightweight, resilient and 100 percent recyclable expanded polypropylene has been selected by Nordic low emissions car manufacturer, TH!NK. Supplied by JSP, ARPRO is helping TH!NK to enhance its new city electric car&r...

17 Dec 2008

Malvern Particle Size Analysis Tool Aids Development of Solar Cells.

The Sysmex Flow Particle Image Analyzer FPIA-3000 from Malvern Panalytical is proving to be the ideal tool for monitoring the deterioration
of abrasive slurries used in the wire saw cutting process in solar cell production.

From Malvern Panalytical 17 Dec 2008

3M Completes Acquisition of Product Lines from Beiersdorf

3M announced
today that it has completed its acquisition of the Futuro health supports and
compression hosiery product line from Beiersdorf. Terms of the transaction were
not disclosed.

17 Dec 2008

Massive International Plastics Trade Show Just got Bigger

NPE, until now best known as the Western Hemisphere's largest international
plastics trade show, will be this and much more in 2009, it was announced today
by The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI), producer of the triennial
event.

17 Dec 2008

BASF to Work on Composites Incorporating Highly Conductive Graphene Materials

BASF and Vorbeck Materials Corp. have established a joint research program to develop graphene-based formulations and composite materials. As part of the collaboration, Vorbeck and BASF are developing dispersions of highly conductive graphene for producing electrically conductive coating and compounds especially for the electronics industry.

17 Dec 2008

Upgraded Inventory Management Tool Will Help Metal Suppliers Remain Profitable in Tough Economic Times

PSI is offering expanded functions for inventory-optimized production planning and evaluation of plans with the new release of PSImetals APS. Companies in the metal industry profit, in particular in the current financial...

17 Dec 2008

Osram Form LED Lighting Joint Venture

Osram is strengthening its portfolio in the field of professional LED lighting systems and solutions by setting up a joint venture with Traxon Technologies Ltd., Hong Kong. The new company, in which Osram has the majorit...

17 Dec 2008

ArcelorMittal Reduce Holding in European Steel Plate Mill

ArcelorMittal
announces it has entered into binding agreements to reduce its economic and
voting interest in Dillinger Hütte from 51.25% to 33.4% in line with existing
governance rights through sale of shares to Struktur-Holding-Stahl GmbH &
Co. KG aA and Dillinger Hütte Saarstahl AG.

16 Dec 2008

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Herbal Infusers Made with New Generation Eastman Copolymer

World's Smallest SRAM Cell Developed by IBM and Toshiba

Dow to Shut 3 Emulsion Polymer Facilities

Uhde Wins Contract to Build An Aromatics Plant in China

Sandia Start Work on a New Ion Beam Laboratory

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Honored for Innovation

Carbon Nanotube Coated Smart Yarn Could Detect Blood and Monitor Health

Enironmentally Friendly Car Makes Extensive Use of Polypropylene

Malvern Particle Size Analysis Tool Aids Development of Solar Cells.

3M Completes Acquisition of Product Lines from Beiersdorf

Massive International Plastics Trade Show Just got Bigger

BASF to Work on Composites Incorporating Highly Conductive Graphene Materials

Upgraded Inventory Management Tool Will Help Metal Suppliers Remain Profitable in Tough Economic Times

Osram Form LED Lighting Joint Venture

ArcelorMittal Reduce Holding in European Steel Plate Mill

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