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Report Outlines Recent Trends in the Ceramic Tile Market

Maintaining a CAGR of more than 8% over the analysis period, the global ceramic tiles market is forecast to reach over 102 billion square feet by 2010. Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), with a CAGR of 11.7% over the aforem...

6 Nov 2007

Novel Technique for Removing Iron from Ferritin

A new study led by Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute senior scientist, Elizabeth Theil, Ph.D., is the first to suggest that a small protein or heptapeptide (seven amino acids wrapped into one unit) cou...

6 Nov 2007

ArcelorMittal Shareholders Approve Next Stage of Merger

The Extraordinary General Meetings of shareholders of ArcelorMittal and Arcelor held today approved the merger of ArcelorMittal into Arcelor. 99.5 % of the votes cast at the ArcelorMittal Extraordinary General Meeting an...

6 Nov 2007

Rio Tinto Alcan Sell Stake in Two Aluminium Die-Casting Operations

Rio Tinto Alcan announced today that it has sold its share in two aluminium die-casting operations in Slovenia: wholly-owned Alcan Koper d.o.o., and Alcan Tomos d.o.o., of which Rio Tinto Alcan owned 67 percent. The Alca...

6 Nov 2007

Green Fuel Fossil Fuel Alternative Offers Massive Cost Savings to Skyrocketing Oil

Silverado Green Fuel Inc. is less than three years away from having a fully operational facility to demonstrate how its green fuel technology can replace many of the industrial applications for oil at a fraction of the c...

6 Nov 2007

DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions Attacks Global Marketplace

DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DPVS) recently exhibited a broad and growing portfolio of films, resins for encapsulants, encapsulant films, conductive pastes and more, at the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Confe...

6 Nov 2007

Alcoa Increase Commitment to Conservation and Biodiversity

Alcoa announced today that it has strengthened its commitment to improving and maintaining high standards of environmental management, particularly in the conservation of biodiversity and plants by signing separate memor...

6 Nov 2007

Alcoa Sells Automotive Castings Business

Alcoa today announced it has completed the sale of its automotive castings business to Compass Automotive Group, LLC, a portfolio company of Monomoy Capital Partners, L.P. Compass Automotive Group is a leading provider o...

6 Nov 2007

Air Products to Inflate Tires with the Aid of Compressor Manufacturer

Air Products, a global leader in nitrogen technology, and Kaeser Compressors, Inc., a leading innovator of air system technology, announcedan agreement for Kaeser to be an authorized reseller of its UltraFill®99+ Hig...

6 Nov 2007

Dow Complete Acquisition of Polyurethane Systems Specialist

The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Edulan A/S, an independent polyurethane (PU) systems house specializing in rigid foam and elastomer formulation technologies. In addition ...

6 Nov 2007

Sigma Aldrich Company Looking to Expand Electronic Materials Manufacturing into South Korea

SAFC Hitech(TM), a focus area within SAFC(R), a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group, today announced that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gyeonggi Province of South Korea has been signed. The MoU signals the C...

From Sigma-Aldrich 6 Nov 2007

Heavier Hydrogen Reduces Friction

Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Houston and the U.S. De...

5 Nov 2007

Micromem Make Significant Progress on MRAM Commercialization

Micromem Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce a material progress update on our commercialization of our MRAM. Micromem and Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS) have successfully patterned and processed ou...

5 Nov 2007

WRAP Launches Innovative MDF Recycling Project

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has announced the launch of an innovative project to demonstrate whether recycled medium density fibreboard (MDF) can be used in place of virgin wood flour in the manufacture...

3 Nov 2007

November Issue of Materials World Concentrates on Thin Films

Materials World is the monthly publication of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). This month’s issue focuses on thin films, and includes: Functional films – A deposition technique de...

3 Nov 2007