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OM Group to Accelerate Growth Strategy in Electronic Chemicals WIth Acquisition of Plaschem

OM Group has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Plaschem Specialty Products Pte Ltd. and its subsidiaries. Terms of the transaction were not announced, but the company believes that the addition o...

13 Mar 2006

Steel Dynamics Announces JV to Manufacture Composite Railroad Ties

Steel Dynamics, Inc. has announced that it has formed a joint venture, Dynamic Composites, LLC, which it will substantially own and control, for the purpose of manufacturing high-strength, long-life composite railroad ti...

13 Mar 2006

Borealis to Close HDPE Plant in Norway

The Board of Borealis AS agreed to close the Borealis high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Bamble, Norway. The Board recommends that the Supervisory Board of Borealis AS concludes to close the 110,000 tonnes per yea...

13 Mar 2006

Renewable Portfolio Standards Help Wind Industry to Sail

In the United States, wind power is the fastest growing form of electricity generation. In 2005, more than 2,400 megawatts of wind energy were added to the nation’s power grid, and it is expected that the market wi...

13 Mar 2006

Alcan to Partner with PCP Canada in Cast Precision Plate Business

Alcan has announced that PCP Canada, a recently formed company based in the Saguenay, Quebec, will produce under license from Alcan aluminum cast precision plate products previously manufactured at Alcan’s Engineer...

13 Mar 2006

Purdie Researchers Use Environmentally Friendly Carbon Dioxide as a Refrigerant

Engineers developing technologies that use environmentally friendly carbon dioxide as a refrigerant instead of conventional, synthetic global-warming and ozone-depleting chemicals will meet at Purdue University in mid-Ma...

13 Mar 2006

CIA Welcomes EU Green Paper on Energy

The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) has welcomed the Green Paper on a European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy published by the European Commission. In particular, the CIA endorses the Gr...

13 Mar 2006

Materials Science Gets a Nitride Boost

Like modern day alchemists, materials scientists often turn unassuming substances into desirable ones. But instead of working metal into gold, they create strange new compounds that could make the electronic components o...

13 Mar 2006

Sandia's Z Machine Exceeds Temperatures Hotter than the Interiors of Stars

Sandia's Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin -- hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could e...

13 Mar 2006

Cleaner Petrol From 'Catalytic Cracking'

One problem confronting the oil industry is that extracted mineral oil (due to increasing scarcity) is becoming heavier and 'dirtier'. This is reflected, for instance, in a higher content of aromatics (which amon...

13 Mar 2006

European Intelligent Car Research

Although safety is improving on European roads, every year over 40,000 people die on Europe's roads and 1.4 million accidents occur. Clearly, there is still plenty of work to be done if the EU is to halve road fatali...

13 Mar 2006

Stereotypes Hamper the Engineering Profession's Efforts to Recruit Women

The classic stereotype of an engineer - a man who is brilliant at and passionate about technology, but not so good at dealing with people - bears little resemblance to actual engineers or their work, according to new res...

13 Mar 2006

GA Tech Develops Ultra-Efficient Embedded Architectures Based on Probabilistic Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology announce energy savings by a factor of more than 500 in simulations with their ultra energy efficient embedded architecture based on Probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS). The rese...

13 Mar 2006

University of Bath Create Conveyer Belt for Magnetic Flux Vortices in Superconductors

If blown up in size, it would not have a chance in the car factory, but the microscopic conveyer belt built by Simon Bending's team in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath and collaborators in Japan an...

13 Mar 2006

PowdermatriX Secures a Further 3 Years Funding

Celebrating the news that PowdermatriX has received three years’ further support as part of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network, over a hundred delegates attended the recent PowdermatriX Evolution conference. ...

10 Mar 2006

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

The global semiconductor market has entered an exciting period. Demand for chip technology is both driving the industry as well as hindering it, with current chip shortages predicted to last for some time. Current trends will likely shape the future of the industry, which is set to continue to show

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

The primary distinction between graphene-based batteries and solid-state batteries lies in the composition of either electrode. Although the cathode is commonly changed, carbon allotropes can also be employed in fabricating anodes.

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

In recent years, the IoT is rapidly being introduced into almost all sectors, but it has particular importance in the EV industry.

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OM Group to Accelerate Growth Strategy in Electronic Chemicals WIth Acquisition of Plaschem

Steel Dynamics Announces JV to Manufacture Composite Railroad Ties

Borealis to Close HDPE Plant in Norway

Renewable Portfolio Standards Help Wind Industry to Sail

Alcan to Partner with PCP Canada in Cast Precision Plate Business

Purdie Researchers Use Environmentally Friendly Carbon Dioxide as a Refrigerant

CIA Welcomes EU Green Paper on Energy

Materials Science Gets a Nitride Boost

Sandia's Z Machine Exceeds Temperatures Hotter than the Interiors of Stars

Cleaner Petrol From 'Catalytic Cracking'

European Intelligent Car Research

Stereotypes Hamper the Engineering Profession's Efforts to Recruit Women

GA Tech Develops Ultra-Efficient Embedded Architectures Based on Probabilistic Technology

University of Bath Create Conveyer Belt for Magnetic Flux Vortices in Superconductors

PowdermatriX Secures a Further 3 Years Funding

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

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How can Charge Photometry be Used for Battery Screening and Development?

Comparing Computed Radiography and Digital Detector Arrays

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