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BASF to Sell Detergent Chemical Manufacturing Business to Hansa Chemie

BASF Aktiengesellschaft has signed an agreement to sell its subsidiary Chemische Fabrik WIBARCO GmbH (Wibarco) to Hansa Chemie International AG (HCI), Zurich, Switzerland. Both companies have agreed not to disclose the t...

17 Apr 2007

Sound Absorbing Foam Available in 50000+ Colors

Visitors to the trade fair "Farbe – Ausbau und Fassade" (“Paint - finishing and facade”) to be held in Cologne, Germany from April 18 to 21 can see how Caparol and BASF combine ambient color w...

17 Apr 2007

CERAM Opens Information Resources Using Online Vehicles

CERAM, the internationally renowned centre for materials and technology, has extended its already extensive information facilities through subscriptions to two major online sources. Access to over 1800 journals, 8 mil...

17 Apr 2007

Lexan Polycarbonate That Doesn't Fog Up for Use in Fridge and Freezer Cabinets

GE Plastics has expanded its ecomagination* product portfolio with a new patent-pending, high-performance Lexan* polycarbonate (PC) film that can prevent condensation on the doors of refrigerated and frozen food glass do...

17 Apr 2007

3M Introduces Rugged Touch Screens for ATMs and Self Serve Kiosks

3M Touch Systems, Inc. today announces the availability of MicroTouch ToughTouch II capacitive touch screens for ruggedized self-service kiosks and ATM applications – specifically, environments where impact strengt...

17 Apr 2007

Universal Display and Nippon Steel Announce New Bright Red PHOLED Material

Universal Display Corporation, the force behind today’s evolving displays and lighting with its PHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, and Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd. (NSCC), the Company that’s a l...

17 Apr 2007

Lamina Unveils World's Brightest LED Light Engines

Lamina, Inc., developer of the brightest commercially available LEDs has announced another milestone in the solid state lighting industry: two LED light engines with outputs as bright as many traditional bulbs used in ho...

17 Apr 2007

CSIRO Designs New Millimetre-Wave Chips

Dr Jay Guo, Research Director of the CSIRO ICT Centre’s Wireless Technologies Laboratory says that they have recently developed the world’s best millimetre-wave chips, operating at 200GHz. “These chi...

17 Apr 2007

Solar Integrated Wins U.S.$10 Million Italian Project

Solar Integrated Technologies has announced that it has won two contracts in Italy totaling U.S. $10 million to provide 2 MW of solar systems at two sites outside of Rome, Italy. The project includes a ground-mount syste...

17 Apr 2007

NIST's New Paired-Photon Source

For a variety of applications in physics and technology, ranging from quantum information theory to telecommunications, it's handy to have access to pairs of photons created simultaneously, with a chosen energy. In a...

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 17 Apr 2007

International Standard for Characterizing Mechanical Vibration and Shock

Extensive National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) work with industry, government, professional societies and standards developing organizations contributed to the release recently of an international standa...

17 Apr 2007

New Class of Materials - Manipulated at Will

Chemists at UCLA have designed new organic structures for the storage of voluminous amounts of gases for use in alternative energy technologies. The research, to be published on April 13 in the journal Science, demons...

17 Apr 2007

New Web Interface for Materials Science and Engineering Professionals

Materials Technology@TMS is a new Web interface for materials science and engineering professionals to network, share knowledge and utilize resources in technology-specific communities online. The site currently offers s...

17 Apr 2007

Solvay Advanced Polymers Actively Working With New PrimoSpire Self-Reinforced Polyphenylene in Membrane Applications

Solvay Advanced Polymers announced its ongoing exploration into membrane product and application development for its ultra-performance polymer, SolvaSpire self-reinforced polyphenylene. PrimoSpire SRP is part of Solvay A...

17 Apr 2007

Chinese Fuel Cell Patent Issued to Caltech

VIASPACE Inc. has announced that China has issued a fuel cell patent to Caltech. The patent is entitled Organic Fuel Cell, and Methods of Operation Thereof and Manufacture of Electrode Therefor, with Chinese patent numbe...

17 Apr 2007