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BOC Extensive Experience Vital to New Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Project

BOC’s extensive experience in the handling and storage of carbon dioxide is making it a key partner in a number of Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) projects, including a proposal for the first power station in th...

9 Apr 2008

DuPont Promotes Green House Design in India

DuPont and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in New Delhi, India, yesterday to promote the cause of green building design and certification in India.

9 Apr 2008

Alcoa Advanced Aerospace Alloys Takes China's First Regional Jet To the Skies

Alcoa announced today that several Alcoa-developed high-performance alloys and products produced from Alcoa operations worldwide are used on China’s first regional jet, the ARJ21-700. The first ARJ21 rolled off ...

9 Apr 2008

Steel Production Giant, Air Liquide, Sets Out to Reduce CO2 emissions by 50%

Concerned by the environment, the leading world steel producers are participating in research programs aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by 50% by the year 2050. In Luleå, in Sweden, Air Liquide has just realized a...

9 Apr 2008

Kureha Set to Establish $100 Million New Production Plant for Polyglycolic Acid Production

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Tokyo-based company’s new production plant took place April 7, 2008, at the DuPont site in Belle, W.Va. Kureha is investing more than $100 million in a new, wholly-owned subsidia...

From Celanese Corporation 9 Apr 2008

KLA-Tencor Set to Purchase World-Leading IC Visual Inspection Supplier

KLA-Tencor Corporation today announced the launch of its tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares, warrants and options of ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV (Euronext: IVIS). The board of directors of ICOS has is...

9 Apr 2008

O-I Acknowledges Role in Beer Bottle Recall as Investigation Continues

Owens-Illinois, Inc., today acknowledged that it manufactured the bottles involved in The Boston Beer Company's voluntary recall of select 12-ounce bottles of its Samuel Adams beer. Notwithstanding references in T...

From O-I Glass 9 Apr 2008

Shell Chemicals Confident with Global Ethylene Production Continual Growth

While the focus of global ethylene investment continues to shift towards the Middle East and Asia Pacific, Shell Chemicals see a future of continuing opportunity for ethylene producers across all the regions of the world...

9 Apr 2008

PPG Industries’ Addition of Flake Pigments Boasts Vibrant Finishing

PPG Industries' automotive refinish business recently introduced Ditzler Big Flake pigments to its Vibrance Collection finishes line of custom colors and special effect coatings. Ditzler Big Flake pigments compri...

9 Apr 2008

PPG Aerospace Boosts Fighter Jet Performance with Advanced Coatings

F-16 jets flown by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are being painted with a smooth, fast-drying primer and high-gloss, lightweight, advanced-performance coating (APC)

9 Apr 2008

Leading North American Industrial Products Supplier Enters Into Alliance with Viking & Worthington Steel Enterprises

Samuel Manu-Tech Inc's majority owned steel pickling operations in Ohio,Samuel Steel Pickling Company (Samuel Pickling) today announced that it is entering into a strategic alliance with Viking & Worthington Stee...

9 Apr 2008

Bayer MaterialScience Innovative Micro-Cellular Polyurethane Solves Flat Tire Problem

It is a fact that flat tires hinder movement. All gardeners, handymen and construction site workers who have tried pushing a heavily laden wheelbarrow with an under-inflated tire know this only too well. It takes a lo...

9 Apr 2008

BASF Release Easy to Inflate Plastics Showing Wide Range of Applications

Recent tests have demonstrated that Styrolux® 3G46, a highly transparent SBC plastic grade that BASF launched onto the market just in 2006, lends itself very well for blow molding (SBC: styrene butadiene block copoly...

9 Apr 2008

Thermo Fisher Produce Scientific Equipment Catalog Specifically for Chinese Market

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has introduced its first Chinese-language catalog targeted specifically to markets in China. The new Fisher Scientific China Laboratory Supplies Guide i...

From Thermo Fisher Scientific 9 Apr 2008

Goodfellow Offers Molybdenum for Research and Industrial Applications

Goodfellow Corporation, a leading supplier of metals and materials worldwide, offers molybdenum in small quantities for a range of research and industrial applications. Due to its high melting point, pure molybdenum is u...

From Goodfellow 9 Apr 2008