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Bairnco Directors Recommend Rejection of Steel Partners Acquisition Bid

Bairnco Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful consideration, has unanimously recommended that shareholders not tender their shares to Steel Partners II, L.P. (“Steel Partners”...

16 Feb 2007

Algoma Steel and Salzgitter in Merger Talks

Algoma Steel Inc. today confirmed that it is in discussions with Salzgitter AG regarding the possible acquisition of Algoma. The discussions are at a very preliminary stage. There can be no assurance that an acquisition ...

16 Feb 2007

Arcelor Mittal Joint Venture to Construct a Seamless Tube Steel Mill in Saudi Arabia

Arcelor Mittal has signed a joint venture agreement with the Bin Jarallah Group of companies for the design and construction of a seamless tube mill in Saudi Arabia. This state of the art facility will be located in ...

16 Feb 2007

SDK to Produce Large Area Organic EL Panels Using Innovative Phosphorescent Polymer Technology

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has made remarkable progress in its development of organic electroluminescent (organic EL) device technology based on an innovative single layer organic electroluminescent devices based on phosphor...

15 Feb 2007

Rinspeed and Bayer Build Plastic Car with Transparent Body and Floor

"There's never been anything like it" were the words used in the online edition of an acclaimed international news magazine to describe its editor's reaction when the first sketches of the new Rinspeed ...

15 Feb 2007

Economic Benefits of Energy Efficient Use of Raw Materials

Raw materials such as metals and minerals account for 40 per cent of the production costs of industry, energy for only 1.6 per cent. All the more astonishing that availability, cost-effectiveness and utilisation efficien...

15 Feb 2007

Timken to Continue as Technical Partner for NASCAR Racing Team

The Timken Company announced that it has extended its agreement with Joe Gibbs Racing as an official technical partner of the NASCAR racing organization. Timken will provide product development and technical engineering ...

From The Timken Co. 15 Feb 2007

Klockner Pentaplast to Sell Flexible Films Business to Wipak

Klöckner Pentaplast Group, a global leader of film products, announced that it has reached agreement for the sale of its flexible film business with Wipak, the packaging division of Finland-based Wihuri Group, subje...

15 Feb 2007

Davis-Standard Relocates European Extrusion Business to UK

Davis-Standard, LLC recently relocated the Extrusion Systems portion of its European business from Erkrath, Germany to the D-S Brookes facility in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Converting Systems business will remain i...

15 Feb 2007

Saint Gobain Glass Provides CE Mark Certification for Glass Products

In the context of CE Marking, most flat glass products sold in the European Union must now conform to European technical standards known as harmonised European Norms (hEN), as dictated by the Comité Européen de...

15 Feb 2007

SINTEF, EU and China to Cut Greenhouse Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants

Following an initiative taken by SINTEF, the EU and China are launching a project with the aim of cutting global emissions of greenhouse gases. The cooperative effort will give Europe emission quotas for CO2 – and ...

14 Feb 2007

American Superconductor Materials Help Hyundai Achieve Record Performance in Fault Current Limiters

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, announced today that Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (Hyundai) has achieved world record performance levels for fault current limiters (FCL), ...

14 Feb 2007

mPhase Technologies and Rutgers Extend Development Agreement for Lithium-Based Microbatteries

mPhase Technologies today announced that it has signed a an extension of its original cooperative research agreement with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as related to lithium-based chemistries for a functio...

14 Feb 2007

Sigma Aldrich Acquires Semiconductor Chemicals Manufacturer Epichem Group

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation announced today that it has acquired all of the outstanding shares of Epichem Group Limited of Bromborough, United Kingdom, to expand its SAFC Hitech business offering. The purchase price of $60...

From Sigma-Aldrich 13 Feb 2007

PyroSil Sheathed Thermocouples Offer a Better Solution for Heat Treaters

Tyco Thermal Controls, a leader in the supply of Mineral Insulated (MI) thermocouple cables for industrial temperature measurement, offers a solution for heat treatment companies looking to reduce the incidence of &lsquo...

13 Feb 2007