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Spheric Technologies to Show High Temperatuire Microwave Furnaces at PowderMet 2007

Spheric Technologies, Inc., marketer of patented high-temperature microwave powdered metal and ceramic processing systems, announced it will exhibit at PowderMet 2007, the international conference on powder metallurgy an...

10 Apr 2007

New Laser-Cooling Technique from MIT

Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero. This study marks...

10 Apr 2007

Biofuel Alternatives to Ethanol

As the United States looks to alternate fuel sources, ethanol has become one of the front runners. Farmers have begun planting corn in the hopes that its potential new use for corn will be a new income source. What many ...

10 Apr 2007

Plastic's Conductivity Increased Six-Fold by University of Texas Researcher

Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo at The University of Texas at Austin has modified a plastic so its ability to carry an electrical current can be altered during manufacturing to meet the needs of future electronic devices. Lo...

10 Apr 2007

Livermore Researchers Step Closer to Turning On and Off the Decay of a Nuclear Isomer

Livermore researchers have moved one step closer to being able to turn on and off the decay of a nuclear isomer. The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can be arranged in many ways. The arrangement with the lowest ener...

10 Apr 2007

Electronics Recycler Adopts Environmentally Friendly Practices

Beacon Management Inc. (BMI), one of the nations leading electronics recycling firms, has embraced the high environmental standards established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Following a rig...

5 Apr 2007

Chevron Phillips Chemical to Build Polyphenylene Sulfide Plant in Texas

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) announced today that it will proceed with plans to build a 22 million pound-per-year polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) plant in Borger, Texas. Built next to Chev...

5 Apr 2007

Alcan Working to Modernize Aluminium Smelter at Kitimat

Alcan Inc. and the District of Kitimat announced today that they met and had productive discussions about Kitimat's future through the modernization of Alcan's aluminum smelter in Kitimat. Both parties agreed to ...

5 Apr 2007

All Weather Windows Open Second Manufacturing Plant

All Weather Windows is excited to be opening their second manufacturing facility that will continue to provide Canadian residents with the versatile, energy efficient, money saving windows and doors with unique designs a...

5 Apr 2007

Sancon to Recycle Waste from Plastic Card Manufacturer

Sancon Resources Recovery Inc a growing industrial waste recycling company with operations in China and Australia, today announced it started to process Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic card waste materials from Leigh Ma...

5 Apr 2007

Steel Dynamics to Purchase Two Steel Recycling Facilities

Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced it has reached an agreement to purchase two privately owned metals recycling facilities in eastern Tennessee. The facilities are Elizabethton Iron & Metal in Elizabethton, Tennessee, an...

5 Apr 2007

Basell Sign Ultrapolymers and Albis Plastics to Distribute Their Products

Basell Sales & Marketing Company B.V announced today that it has signed agreements with two prominent distributors of plastic materials - Albis Plastic GmbH and Ultrapolymers Group N.V. – to expand their roles ...

5 Apr 2007

New Polystyrene Grade for Refrigerator Linings from BASF

BASF has developed a new polystyrene (PS) grade that is particularly suitable for manufacturing refrigerator linings. The product, called PS ESCRimoTM, is much more resistant to stress crack formation than its predecesso...

5 Apr 2007

Micro Fuel Cells for Handheld Applications to Reach $112m by 2011

According to a new report from Innovative Research and Products (iRAP) titled “Micro Fuel Cells for Handheld Consumer Electronic Products – A Global Industry and Market Analysis (ETP-103),” micro fuel cells have just ent...

5 Apr 2007

US Steel, Posco and SeAH Steel form Joint Venture to Make Spiral Welded Products

United States Steel Corporation announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to form a joint venture with POSCO, the Republic of Korea's leading steel producer, and SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH), a...

5 Apr 2007