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SABIC Promote High Performance Composites and Plastics to Auto Manufacturers

Here at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show press days, SABIC Innovative Plastics is introducing its “Design without Sacrifices” program, developed to demonstrate the advantages of using high-performance composite...

15 Nov 2007

Potash Corp to Make Major Capacity Expansion to Deal with Increased Demand

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) today announced plans for a 2-million-tonne mine and mill expansion at Rocanville, SK, that will raise the company's total annual potash capacity to 15.7 million t...

15 Nov 2007

Rio Tinto Completes Acquisition of Alcan

Rio Tinto today announces that Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc. ("RTCH"), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, has acquired all of the common shares of Alcan Inc. ("Alcan") not already owned...

15 Nov 2007

EPA Encourages Americans to Recycle More

Don't throw those empty water bottles into the trash – recycle them. The same goes for the empty cereal box. On the eve of America Recycles Day, EPA is encouraging all Americans to expand their recycling activi...

15 Nov 2007

NASA Wins Award for High Quality Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. proudly announces that its method for manufacturing high-quality carbon nanotubes (CNT) has been named a winner in the third annual Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 awards in the...

15 Nov 2007

EPA Presents Awards for Materials Recycling

Award-winning members of two of EPA's partnership programs are recognized for reducing and recycling materials, and for cutting back or eliminating over 4 million pounds of priority chemicals. At the same time, these...

15 Nov 2007

Hydro Spread the Word on Aluminium Building Systems

Nearly 7,000 people met with Hydro last week in Paris to better understand the latest developments in aluminium building systems. Sustainability was the theme at the Batimat 2007 exhibition. Hydro showed combinations ...

15 Nov 2007

Hydro Enter Australian Bauxite Joint Venture

Hydro is entering into a joint venture with the Australian mining company United Minerals Corporation (UMC) with the intention of recovering bauxite and producing alumina in Kimberley, Western Australia. The agreement, w...

15 Nov 2007

More Image Analysis Standards for Powder Characterisation

Microscopy with Image Analysis is one of the fastest growing new methods of particle characterisation, offering the additional measurement of particle shape as well as size. In support of this increasing trend, Wh...

15 Nov 2007

CleanTechnology International Providing Samples of Nano Oil Additive

CleanTechnology International Corp. announced today that it is making available free samples, up to 5 grams, of its solid Carbon NanoSphere Chain™ (CNSC) material to approved oil/additive/bio-diesel companies. CTIC...

15 Nov 2007

Applied Materials to Work with Leading DRAM Chip Manufacturer

Applied Materials, Inc. has signed a five-year contract with Elpida Memory, Inc., a leading provider of DRAM chips for mobile, digital consumer product and high-end servers, to utilize Applied’s advanced service ca...

15 Nov 2007

System-on-a-Chip Paper Voted One of the Most Influential in the last 10 Years

A paper by academics from the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS), has been voted one of the most influential over the past 10 years by the Design Automation and Test in E...

15 Nov 2007

PolyOne to Acquire Leading North American Thermoplastic Elastomer Supplier

PolyOne Corporation, a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GLS Corporation ("GLS"), the leading...

15 Nov 2007

Development of Next Generation Liquid Fueled Rocket Booster Completed

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced today that it has completed development of its Merlin 1C next generation liquid fueled rocket booster engine. It is among the highest performing gas generator cycle...

15 Nov 2007

Hydrogen Fuel Cells become More Viable Thanks to New Hydrogen Storage Materials

Scientists at the University of Virginia have discovered a new class of hydrogen storage materials that could make the storage and transportation of energy much more efficient — and affordable — through highe...

15 Nov 2007