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New High Purity Inorganics Catalog from Alfa Aesar

Alfa Aesar, has published a new High Purity Inorganics Catalog
which lists over 1,000 high purity inorganic materials, including base metal
compounds, rare earth compounds and ultra dry materials for air and moisture
sensitive applications.

12 Aug 2008

SECO WARWICK Patent Hydrogen Hardening Heat Treatment Process

SECO/WARWICK
has recently patented a hydrogen closed-cycle hardening system where the heat
treatment process is performed in vacuum, and the hydrogen atmosphere is recycled.

12 Aug 2008

Borouge Award Contract for for Construction of Chinese Polyethylene Plant

Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has today awarded a service contract to Agility (Abu Dhabi) PJSC to build the Borouge Compound Manufacturing Unit (CMU) and Shanghai Logistics...

From Borouge 12 Aug 2008

Atlantis Plastics to Sell Its Plastic Films Business

Atlantis Plastics, Inc. today announced that it has reached definitive agreements to sell substantially all of the assets of its Plastic Films business to AEP Industries Inc. and substantially all of the assets of its Mo...

12 Aug 2008

Metamaterials Bring Invisibility Closer to Reality

University
of California, Berkeley have for the first time engineered 3-D materials
that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light.

12 Aug 2008

Gift from Applied Materials Helps Advance Semiconductor Research

Applied Materials is advancing semiconductor research with an equipment and service donation to the University of California, Berkeley’s Nanofabrication Laboratory in the Center for Information Technology Research ...

12 Aug 2008

Computer Simulations Show Critical Thermal Stresses in Engine Components Reducing Failures

A new simulation method has made it possible to predict in record time when and where heavily stressed engine components are likely to fail. Car manufacturers can thereby significantly reduce the time for developing new ...

11 Aug 2008

Oxford Instruments Announce Launch of the Next Generation X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer

The X-MET5000, the first truly rugged hand-held analyzer for harsh multi-element analysis.

11 Aug 2008

BASF Solid Plastic Surfacing System Help Athletes Create New World Records

Higher, faster, further, in striving to create new records athletes push themselves to the limits of their capabilities. Stadium surfaces promote these outstanding achievements.

11 Aug 2008

BASF Release New Engineering Plastic Designed for Food Contact

Since beginning of August 2008, which is when the European Union’s GMP regulations for materials that come into contact with food products have gone into effect

11 Aug 2008

Applied Materials Awarded Contract for Manufacturing World-Class Solar Photovoltaic Modules

Through its SunFab Performance Service program, the most comprehensive service offering in the solar industry, Applied will reduce operating costs while enabling a quick ramp to volume production.

11 Aug 2008

Neiker-Tecnalia Have Added 52 New Analytical Instruments to Its R+D Laboratories

The incorporation of these items of equipment will enable a significant increase in the analytical capacities of Neiker-Tecnalia as regards chemical parameters. It will also favour the initiation or the strengthening of the application of techniques in molecular biology to numerous fields.

11 Aug 2008

Leading Steel Company Invests In Exploring and Developing Iron Ore Reserves in Brazil

ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire 49% of the share capital in MPP - Mineração Pirâmide Participações Ltda (“MP...

11 Aug 2008

PPG Industries Celebrate Opening of New Automotive Coatings Plant in China

PPG Industries today celebrated the opening of its new automotive coatings plant here. Charles E. Bunch, PPG chairman and chief executive officer, and Yin Tongyue, chairman and general manager of Chery Automotive, were p...

10 Aug 2008

Saint Gobain Announce Agreement with IBM to Modernize IT Infrastructure in Latin America

IBM today announced that Saint-Gobain, one of the largest industrial groups in Latin America, has signed an agreement with IBM in Brazil to outsource its entire IT infrastructure. Through the agreement, with an initi...

10 Aug 2008