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United Nations World Food Programme Awards DSM with Best Business Innovation Award

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announce that the 2008 ICIS Innovation Awards for Best Business ...

From Elsevier - Materials Science & Technology Publisher 14 Oct 2008

DuPont Paint Solution Help Eliminate Fourteen Million Pounds of Air Emissions

Fourteen million pounds of air emissions have been eliminated annually since tens of thousands of auto collision repair shops in more than 30 countries began using DuPont water-based paints

14 Oct 2008

Air Products to Supply Advance Technology to Greenhouse Gase Reduction Project

Air Products today announced it has signed an agreement to supply oxygen, engineering services and related equipment to a project in the United Kingdom led by Doosan Babcock designed to advance technology that has the po...

14 Oct 2008

Nanotechnology Help Advance Life Science with New Nanofountain Probe (NFP)

Nanotechnology offers unique opportunities to advance the life sciences by facilitating the delivery, manipulation and observation of biological materials with unprecedented resolution. The ability to pattern nanosca...

14 Oct 2008

Siemens Healthcare Introduces Molecular CT Integrated Imaging Solution for the Healthcare Industry

Siemens Healthcare introduces molecular CT, a new concept in integrated imaging that provides a premium imaging platform, and is a practical solution for today’s shrinking healthcare budget. This new technology,...

14 Oct 2008

Minister to Open Australian Nanofabrication Facility

The Hon. Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research will open a new nanofabrication facility that will encourage and promote the development of nanotechnology in Australia. The new facility will give industrial and univeristy researchers new levels of access to high end instruments and expertise to help them develop new technologies.

14 Oct 2008

Leading Nanoelectronics Research Institute Makes Significant Progress in 3D Stacked IC Technology

IMEC recently demonstrated the first functional 3D integrated circuits obtained by die-to-die stacking using 5µm Cu through-silicon vias (TSV). It will now further develop 3D SIC chips on 200mm and 300mm wafers, integrating test circuits from partners participating in its 3D integration research program.

13 Oct 2008

Project to Design Complete Integrated Production System Through Ultimate Rapid Manufacturing Technologies

The main aim of the CUSTOM-FIT project was to create a completely integrated system that would allow the design, production and supplying of products totally adapted to both, the users’s physical geometry and his/her personal requirement

13 Oct 2008

Global Aluminium Producer Vimetco Announce Acquisition of Chinese Coalmine

Vimetco N.V. , the global producer of primary and processed aluminium products, today announces the acquisition of the Yaoling Coalmine in Gongyi, Henan Province, China, through its subsidiary company Henan Yulian for a ...

13 Oct 2008

BASF Strengthens Position in Chinese Automotive Industry with Establishment of New Plant

A new BASF plant for the manufacture of automotive spring aids made of Cellasto® for approximately five million vehicles per year is to be built in Shanghai by early 2010.

13 Oct 2008

BASF Extends Specialty Products for Medical Technology Plastics

Luran® HD is the first SAN (styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer) to be offered along with BASF’s HD services. HD stands for Healthcare and Diagnostics.

13 Oct 2008

QinetiQ Acquires Market-Leading Provider of Assessment and Management Software

QinetiQ Group announces today that it has acquired Commerce Decisions Ltd, a market-leading provider of tender assessment and management software. Under the terms of the agreement, QinetiQ will acquire 100 per cent o...

From QinetiQ 13 Oct 2008

DSM Announce Investment in Developing Medical Device Technology

DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Royal DSM N.V., today announces that it has made an investment in the new business incubator in the field of medical devices Accelerated Technologies II, L.P. (ATP). The inv...

13 Oct 2008

DuPont Performance Coatings Receives Business Excellence Award from Toyota

For the sixth consecutive year, DuPont Performance Coatings has received a “Business Partner Award of Excellence” from Southeast Toyota Distributors

13 Oct 2008

Micron Technology Announce Extends Partnership with DRAM Memory Manufacturer

Micron Technology, Inc. , today announced that it is expanding its partnership with Nanya Technology Corporation and signing a definitive agreement to acquire Qimonda AG’s 35.6 percent ownership stake in Inotera Me...

13 Oct 2008