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PVC Manufacturer Agree to Reduce Pollutants and Enforce Better Hazardous Waste Management

Shintech, Inc. and its subsidiary K-Bin, Inc., have agreed in a settlement announced today by the Justice Department and EPA to spend $4.8 million to comply with the Clean Air Act and the Resource Conservation and Recove...

1 Dec 2008

DSM Opens Third Premix Facility to Support China Growing Market

Royal DSM N.V. announced that DSM Nutritional Products has opened its third premix plant in China. The new facility allows DSM to serve a larger geographical area in China. This enables the company to capitalize on op...

1 Dec 2008

Austria to Invest EUR 3 Million in Plastic Engineering Education Programmes

From winter semester 2009/10, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU, Austria) will offer a completely new programme of Bachelor and Master degrees in Material Sciences focused on Plastics Engineering. The disciplines of P...

1 Dec 2008

Does Anyone Care about Manufacturing? Leading Industry Analyst Details the Fall of Detroit's "Big Three"

Does anyone care about manufacturing? In Factory Man, a new autobiography to be published in February 2009 by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers , James E. Harbour says it doesn’t appear to be the financial com...

1 Dec 2008

Hydro Inaugurate New Aluminium Recycling Furnace

The EUR 12 million investment underlines the company's mission to create a more viable society by developing natural resources and products in innovative and efficient ways.

1 Dec 2008

NANOSENSOR Introduce Single and Double Walled CNT for AFM Probes

The Single or Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) at the end of the tips are grown by chemical vapour deposition and are ready to use, no shortening or post processing is necessary. NANOSENSORS CNT probes are Single/Dou...

1 Dec 2008

Research Elites Gather to Discuss Future Innovation to Fuel Economy

Innovation fuels the future of our economy—and our nation’s university research and science parks are where this innovation is happening. Executives from university research parks around the world will gather...

1 Dec 2008

Engineers Bring Self Charging Mobile Phones Closer to Reality

Imagine a self-powering cell phone that never needs to be charged because it converts sound waves produced by the user into the energy it needs to keep running. It's not as far-fetched as it may seem thanks to the re...

1 Dec 2008

Rare Mineral Gives Prediction on Condtion of Life in the Next Century

By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, Binghamton University geologist Tim Lowenstein is helping climatologists and others better understand what we're probably in fo...

1 Dec 2008

Scientists Uncover Existence of Superconductivity in Material Only in 2D

Scientists studying a material that appeared to lose its ability to carry current with no resistance say new measurements reveal that the material is indeed a superconductor — but only in two dimensions.

1 Dec 2008

Airborne Laser (ABL) Weapons System A Success after Firing High Energy Laser through Beam Steering System

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully operated the Airborne Laser's (ABL) complete weapon system for the first time last week by projecting a beam from the Northrop Grumman Corporation-built (NYSE:NOC) h...

1 Dec 2008

Applied Materials Leads In Major Effort of Introducing TSV in 3-Dimensional ICs

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that it is leading a major effort to enable the widespread adoption of through-silicon vias (TSVs), a rapidly-emerging approach for vertically stacking integrated circuits (ICs) to...

1 Dec 2008

Research Shows Vital Role of Microorganisms in Rivers as Carbon Processor

Microorganisms in rivers and streams play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle that has not previously been considered. Freshwater ecologist Dr. Tom Battin, of the University of Vienna, told a COST ESF Frontiers of ...

1 Dec 2008

Scientists Discover Possible Mechanism for Fundamental Understanding of Biological Processes

This chirality has a profound influence on the chemistry and molecular interactions of living organisms. The creation of chirality from the elementary building blocks of matter is one of the great mysteries of the origin of life.

1 Dec 2008

Applied Materials Launch New Imaging System Increasing Lithography Productivity

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its Applied Aera2™ for Lithography system. Using the system’s IntenCD™ technology in the fab, semiconductor manufacturers can improve wafer critical dimension uni...

1 Dec 2008