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Launch of Standards Portal in China

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) president and CEO S. Joe Bhatia, Standardization Administration of China (SAC) Administrator Liu Pingjun, and Belinda Collins of the National Institute of Standards and Techno...

14 Nov 2006

Alcoa Howmet's Ti-Cast Operation Wins Casting Contest Award

Alcoa's Howmet Products and Services' Ti-Cast facility in Whitehall, Michigan, has received the 2006 Casting Contest Award - aerospace category - from the Investment Casting Institute. The award recognizes Howmet...

14 Nov 2006

Alcan to Explore Development of Bauxite Mine and Alumina Refinery in Madagascar

Alcan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Access Madagascar Sarl, a Malagasy company holding exploration rights in Madagascar’s south eastern Manantenina District, to jointly study the development of a ba...

14 Nov 2006

New British Science and Technology Facilities Council Announced

The British Minister for Science and Innovation, Lord Sainsbury, has confirmed that the new large facilities council would be called the "Science and Technology Facilities Council". The new name reflects th...

14 Nov 2006

De Beers Opens Canadian Diamond Display Centre

De Beers Canada has announced the opening of its Diamond Display Centre, the first of its kind in Canada and the first such permanent display outside of the Diamond Trading Company in London. The Diamond Display Centre, ...

14 Nov 2006

Rand Says Renewable Energy Could Play Larger Role in US Energy Future

Renewable resources could produce 25 percent of the electricity and motor vehicle fuels used in the United States by 2025 at little or no additional cost if fossil fuel prices remain high enough and the cost of producing...

14 Nov 2006

Biotechnology Applied to the Paper Industry

The principal raw material used for manufacturing paper pulp is wood. However, growing demand in the paper industry, at a time of dwindling forest resources, have compelled the sector to turn to other sources of raw mate...

14 Nov 2006

ALTRAN Unveils Three New Eco-Innovative Concepts

ALTRAN, the European leader in innovation and high technology consulting, unveiled at the EcoBuilding Performance Forum on the 8-9 of November in Paris, three new eco-innovative concepts, to enable the best use of energy...

14 Nov 2006

Electrostatics Could Lead to Smaller, Cheaper Laser Printers

Recent advances in the basic science of electrostatics could soon lead to color laser printers that are cheaper and up to 70 percent smaller than current models, a physicist reports at this week's AVS International S...

14 Nov 2006

Novel 3-Dimensional Magnetic Polymer Discovered

Up to now it has not been possible to fabricate magnets from organic materials, like for example plastics. Recently, however, experiments at the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in collaboration with an international...

14 Nov 2006

Ferro Plans Closure of Ceramics Manufacturing Plant in 2007

Ferro Corporation announced today that it plans to close its Niagara Falls, New York, facility by the end of 2007. Approximately 150 employees are located at the facility, which supplies a range of dielectric and indu...

14 Nov 2006

Borouge Pipes Get Registered with International Traceability Coding

Three Borouge Borstar® PE pipe grades are now registered with the international Traceability coding (Traccoding) to fulfil the ISO12176-4 (2003). Traccoding is an encoding system for PE piping systems, covering r...

From Borouge 14 Nov 2006

Australian Coal Specialist Expands into Metals Industry by Acquiring Metal Services Group

After years of dominating the Australian coal infrastructure sector, engineering group Sedgman Limited is expanding into the broader metals industry with the $65 million acquisition of operations services group Pac-Rim. ...

14 Nov 2006

Hydro to Divest Automotive Components Operations

Hydro intends to divest its Automotive Components operations as part of the company's strategy to reduce engagement in downstream aluminium while investing in the repositioning of metal production operations. &ldq...

14 Nov 2006

Toshiba Develops Gallium Nitride Power FET with Superior Performance to Gallium Arsenide

Toshiba Corporation today announced development of a gallium nitride (GaN) power field effect transistor (FET) that far surpasses the operating performance of gallium arsenide (GaAs) FET widely used in microwave solid-st...

14 Nov 2006