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Rio Tinto Outline Expansion Plans

Rio Tinto outlines expansion plans as world mineral demand expected to double by 2022 Rio Tinto will today tell investors that it is exceptionally well-placed to take advantage of an expected doubling of world demand fo...

30 May 2008

QinetiQ Look to Increase Australian Presence

QinetiQ, an international defence and security technology company, announced today the appointment of Mike Kalms as CEO of QinetiQ Australia. This appointment is key to the continued development of QinetiQ’s Austra...

30 May 2008

DSM Complete Acquisition of Leading Biomedical Polymer Supplier

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, today announces that it has closed the acquisition of The Polymer Technology Group, Inc. (PTG) of Berkeley (Califo...

30 May 2008

Corus Launch New Website for Kalzip

Kalzip has launched an upgraded, fully integrated single website, www.kalzip.com, to meet the latestrequirements of its international customer base. The new site boasts superior product and technicalcontent together with...

30 May 2008

Sterolithography and Titanium Help Rebuild Wounded Soldiers Jaw

The lab's technicians first used images from CT scans to create a 3-D graphic. They then used 3-D sculpting tools and advanced modeling techniques to produce a mirror image the patient's mandible and created a corrected anatomical jaw. A computer-guided laser used the graphic to create an epoxy photopolymer resin model of how his jaw should look.

30 May 2008

DuPont Automotive Systems Win Award from Toyota

Toyota recently presented a top supplier award to DuPont Automotive Systems, which provides coatings to major automotive manufacturers globally.

30 May 2008

DuPont Opens New Liquid Packaging Manufacturing Facility

A new DuPont Liquid Packaging Systems (DLPS) manufacturing facility recently began operations in Manchester, England. The site produces pre-made bags for bag-in-box applications, serving the growing customer base in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

30 May 2008

New Series of Through Hole LED's from Dominant Semiconductor

DOMINANT is offering a new series of through-hole LEDs in a 5mm round package for use in a wide range of solid-state lighting and illumination applications. These 5mm round through-hole LEDs have been designed specifically to provide a well-defined radiation pattern and a cost-effective lighting solution.

30 May 2008

BASF Receives Award from Major Auto Manufacturer for Eco-Friendly Development

The award honored the development of BASF’s Hydraulan® 404 brake fluid. Hydraulan enhances the braking performance of vehicles and is better for the environment because it needs to be changed less frequently. Thus, the total volume of brake fluid used and disposed of by Volkswagen Group and its garages is reduced by around one-third.

30 May 2008

Bayer MaterialScience to Star During European Championship

King Soccer will again rule over the stadiums and living rooms during the European Championship in June. This year’s secret star of the green pitch is the "EUROPASS". With its PSC-Texture™ surface structure, the new match ball of Bayer materials combines outstanding flight characteristics with greater power transmission and control.

30 May 2008

Bayer MaterialScience Partnership Aims to Help Processors of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Plastics

Bayer MaterialScience and Sysprotex GmbH, Kenzingen, have agreed to form a partnership on customer support. The partnership aims in the future to offer processors of glass fiber-reinforced plastics all-in-one solutions c...

30 May 2008

Bodycote Now Equipped with Europe's Largest Electron Beam Welding Equipment

Bodycote has installed additional Electron Beam Welding equipment at its heat treatment plant at Skelmersdale, UK. The new equipment gives the Skelmersdale facility the largest sub-contract EBW capability in Europe.

30 May 2008

US-EU Trade Could be Retarded if Political Activists Undermine European Chemical Legislation

The former US Ambassador to the European Union, Stuart Eizenstat, has warned of the “chilling signal” for EU-US trade if political activists are allowed to undermine European chemical legislation, after a green think-tank proposed that a range of fire safety products should be banned under EU law despite having passed exhaustive European risk assessments.

30 May 2008

New Range of Mass Spectrometry Technologies with Improved Analytical Performance from Thermo Fisher

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the introduction of a wide range of mass spectrometry technologies that deliver new levels of analytical performance for a wide range of...

From Thermo Fisher Scientific 30 May 2008

Evidence Points to the Existence of a New Type of Superconductor

Now, in the latest of a century of surprises, researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University have discovered unusual properties in a novel superconducting material that point to an entirely new kind of superconductor.

30 May 2008