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Alcan to Invest US$27.5 Million in Kentucky Pharmaceutical Packaging Center

Alcan will invest US$27.5 million for an expansion project in its Pharma Center in Shelbyville, Kentucky, U.S.A. Alcan Packaging Shelbyville is a leading supplier and the only North American facility in the packaging ind...

30 Nov 2006

New Nanoparticle Reinforced Stereolithography Resin Available from DSM Somos

DSM Somos, a leading developer of stereolithography (SL) resins for the rapid prototyping industry, has announced the commercialization of NanoTool™, the third generation of Somos ProtoComposite™ materials. ...

30 Nov 2006

Viscotek Introduces a New Generation of Dynamic Light Scattering Particle Size Analysis Tool

Viscotek, specialists in multi-detector characterisation of proteins, polymers and nanoparticulate materials, has announced the launch of a ground breaking new generation of its popular Model 802 Dynamic Light Scattering...

30 Nov 2006

GE Joins the Board of the Electric Drive Transportation Association EDTA

GE announced that it has joined the Board of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). With a broad portfolio of advanced technologies and material solutions, GE has a unique perspective on the global transpo...

30 Nov 2006

Trelleborg to Reorganise Automotive Business Resulting in Closure of Trowbridge Plant

The strategic and operational review announced by Trelleborg for the Automotive business area has resulted in an action program, of which the first step was announced today during Trelleborg’s Capital Markets Day i...

30 Nov 2006

Trelleborg to Move Industrial Tire Production from Sri Lanka to Ohio

Trelleborg is consolidating its industrial tire production to Sri Lanka and will invest in increased production capacity at one of Trelleborg Wheel Systems’ plants in Sri Lanka. As a consequence of this, it is anno...

30 Nov 2006

Ticona Plant to be Relocated Due to Frankfurt Airport Expansion

Celanese Corporation, a global hybrid, integrated chemical company, and its engineered polymers subsidiary, Ticona GmbH, have reached a settlement with the Frankfurt, Germany, Airport (Fraport AG) to relocate Ticona&rsqu...

30 Nov 2006

Arrowhead Research Grow Gallium Nitride Structures on Sapphire Substrates Using MOCVD

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced today that its majority-owned subsidiary, Aonex Technologies, and partner, Sandia National Laboratories, have demonstrated the growth of gallium nitride structures on proprietary ...

30 Nov 2006

Borouge and Borealis Offer Two New Plastics for the Automotive Industry

Borouge and Borealis are introducing two high performance plastic solutions specially tailored for the automotive industry. The first is Daplen™ ED230HP, a thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO), that Borealis developed jo...

From Borouge 30 Nov 2006

ERA to Invest $27.6 Million to Process an Additional 400tpa of Uranium Oxide

Energy Resources of Australia Ltd will spend $27.6 million in 2007 to construct a plant at the Ranger mine in the Northern Territory to process lateritic ore, a material containing a high proportion of clay minerals. ...

30 Nov 2006

Traffic is Responsible for Most of the Particulate Emissions in Urban Air

The report “Reducing Traffic- and Transport-Related Particulate Emissions” published by Tekes, highlights the most recent knowledge of traffic-related particle emissions. Traffic-related emissions result f...

30 Nov 2006

Measurement of Fine Particles of Growing Interest

Fine particles, their properties and their concentrations has been the subject of growing attention in recent years because of the harmful effect they have on people´s health and environment, and the legislative me...

30 Nov 2006

American Superconductor to Acquire Wind Turbine Company Windtec

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windtec, a private company based in Klagenfurt, Austria that develops and licens...

29 Nov 2006

European NULIFE Programme to Prolong Nuclear Power Plant Life

The EU's Network of Excellence NULIFE (Nuclear Plant Life Prediction) has been launched under the EURATOM FP6 Program with a clear focus on integrating safety-oriented research on materials, structures and systems an...

29 Nov 2006

Odd Symmetry State Confirmed in Ruthenate Superconductors

Since it was discovered to be superconducting over a decade ago, the pairing symmetry of strontium ruthenium oxide has been widely explored and debated. Now, a team of researchers led by Dale Van Harlingen at the Univers...

29 Nov 2006