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Semisouth Win US$1.3m Contracts to Develop SiC Technologies

Semisouth Laboratories announced that they have won 4 contracts to develop silicon carbide technologies from the Missile Defence Agency (MDA) and Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The total value of the ...

12 May 2004

ZCL Composites Inc. Acquires Assets of Durex Steel

ZCL Composites Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the business assets of Durex Steel & Alloy Industries Ltd. (“Durex”), a privately-held steel fabricator, located in Edmo...

12 May 2004

American Superconductor Supply Materials for Japanese Prototype Maglev Train

American Superconductor Corporation, today announced that Central Japan Railway Company ("JR Central")has successfully utilised AMSC's high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire in a prototype electromagnet...

12 May 2004

Timken Acquire Alcor Engine Company

The Timken Company announced today that it has acquired the assets of Alcor Engine Company, Inc., and its affiliate, Advance Repair Technologies, Inc. Terms were not disclosed. Alcor is a leading producer of direct re...

From The Timken Co. 12 May 2004

Xstrata Confirm Closure of West Australian Vanadium Operation

Xstrata Alloys confirms the permanent closure of the Windimurra vanadium operation in Western Australia, which has been on care and maintenance since production was suspended in February 2003. The decision follows a thor...

12 May 2004

Aircraft Component Manufacturer Brookhouse Subject of Management Buyout

Brookhouse Holdings Ltd, the Darwen-based composites and metals engineering and tooling company, has been the subject of a management buy-out, supported by the Manchester office of Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equit...

12 May 2004

Ticona to Expand Capacity for Vectra® Liquid

Ticona, a business of Celanese is planning to expand its Vectra® liquid crystal polymer (LCP) plant in Shelby, NC. By debottlenecking the current facility, the company plans to increase capacity by 40 %. Ticona, the ...

12 May 2004

Surface Transforms Wins Contract to Supply Body and Vehicle Armour

Surface Transforms, manufacturer of high-technology carbon ceramic materials, has been awarded its first contract valued at around £40,000 by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The contract is for Surface Transforms...

12 May 2004

MG Technologies Sell remainder of Dynamit Nobel to Flex-N-Gate

MG Technologies AG is selling Dynamit Nobel Kunststoff GmbH (DNK) to U.S. automotive supplier Flex-N-Gate Corporation, which is headquartered in Urbana, Illinois. The disposal is based on an enterprise value of around &e...

12 May 2004

Fuel Efficiency Stimulates Use of Lightweight Materials in Automobile Industry

Lightweight materials may find exciting opportunities in the automotive industry as a means of increasing fuel efficiency. With 75 percent of fuel consumption relating directly to vehicle weight, potential weight reducti...

11 May 2004

Whale Flippers May Improve Airplane Wing Design

Wind tunnel tests of scale-model humpback whale flippers have revealed that the scalloped, bumpy flipper is a more efficient wing design than is currently used by the aeronautics industry on airplanes. The tests show tha...

11 May 2004

Biolubricants Smooth Way To A Cleaner Environment

The Alberta Research Council (ARC), under a contract to Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (AAFRD), recently conducted two tests on a biologically-based lubricant (biolubricant) for chainsaw bars. The tests,...

11 May 2004

Newly Developed Composite Rotor Blade From Boeing

The Boeing Company has successfully completed testing of a newly developed composite rotor blade for use on the AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-role combat helicopter. Developmental tests on the Affordable Apache Rotor P...

11 May 2004

Corus and TKA Collaborate

Corus, has announced it is using advanced computer aided engineering (CAE) techniques combined with its extensive material expertise to help TKA Tallent Chassis optimise the design of future chassis suspension systems. T...

10 May 2004

Sumitomo Chemicals to Develop Petrochemical Plant in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo) today signed a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding related to the planned development of a large, integrated refining and pet...

10 May 2004

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Semisouth Win US$1.3m Contracts to Develop SiC Technologies

ZCL Composites Inc. Acquires Assets of Durex Steel

American Superconductor Supply Materials for Japanese Prototype Maglev Train

Timken Acquire Alcor Engine Company

Xstrata Confirm Closure of West Australian Vanadium Operation

Aircraft Component Manufacturer Brookhouse Subject of Management Buyout

Ticona to Expand Capacity for Vectra® Liquid

Surface Transforms Wins Contract to Supply Body and Vehicle Armour

MG Technologies Sell remainder of Dynamit Nobel to Flex-N-Gate

Fuel Efficiency Stimulates Use of Lightweight Materials in Automobile Industry

Whale Flippers May Improve Airplane Wing Design

Biolubricants Smooth Way To A Cleaner Environment

Newly Developed Composite Rotor Blade From Boeing

Corus and TKA Collaborate

Sumitomo Chemicals to Develop Petrochemical Plant in Saudi Arabia

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