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Lanxess Styrenics Business Renamed Lustran Polymers

The LANXESS business unit Styrenic Resins has a new name: Lustran Polymers. With this name change, the chemical group’s business unit is focusing on the top brand Lustran®. The name change is a consequence of t...

1 Sep 2006

DuPont Introduce Hybrid Membrane Technology

DuPont yesterday announced the introduction of its latest innovation, Hybrid Membrane Technology (HMT), a new offering for air and liquid filtration that is poised to fill the performance gap between traditional nonwoven...

1 Sep 2006

Techint Refurbishment Doubles Capacity of Alunorte Bauxite Reclaimer

Techint Technologies, through its Company Techint Italimpianti do Brasil Ltda, has obtained the Final Acceptance certificate (FAC) related to the refurbishment of the bauxite Reclaimer (35 m boom), supplied by Techint it...

1 Sep 2006

Eyeballs and Air Gauges are Two of The Most Important Tools for Tire Maintenance

During a tire maintenance seminar at the 2006 Great America Trucking Show in Dallas, one of the four panelists, Pat Keating of Hankook Tire, was asked what he considered the most important tool for getting the most from ...

1 Sep 2006

Zimmer to Supply Polybutylene Terephthalate Plant to China

The Frankfurt based Zimmer AG, a company of GEA group, received from Blue Star New Chemical Materials Co., Ltd. a contract to supply a polyester polycondensation plant producing polybutylene terephthalate (PBT). The plan...

1 Sep 2006

More Efficient Solar Cells based on Nature

A research team in Sydney has created molecules that mimic those in plants which harvest light and power life on Earth. “A leaf is an amazingly cheap and efficient solar cell,” says Dr Deanna D’Ales...

1 Sep 2006

Dow to Shut Down Several Plants Across The World

In its ongoing drive to improve the competitiveness of its global operations, The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it will shut down a number of assets around the world. As a consequence of these shutdowns, a...

1 Sep 2006

Crystal IS Secure $10.6 MIllion Second Round Financing

Harris & Harris Group, Inc., announced today that it has made a follow-on investment in Crystal IS, Inc., as part of a $10.6 million second round financing. The investor syndicate was led by Lux Capital, with partici...

1 Sep 2006

Westinghouse to Build Two Nuclear Power Plants in South Korea

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed contracts valued in excess of $300 million to provide components, instrumentation and control equipment, Man-Machine Interface Systems, and technical and engineering support servi...

31 Aug 2006

Memorandum of Understanding Signed by SUAL Group and AES Corporation on New Aluminium Smelter in Kazakhstan

SUAL Group and Nurenergoservice LLP (a Kazakhstan subsidiary of AES Corporation) signed a Memorandum of Understanding relating to cooperation on the energy supply for a new aluminium smelter in the Republic of Kazakhstan...

31 Aug 2006

Rolls-Royce to Provide Military Generators for Watchkeeper Programme

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract to provide electric power generators for the UK Armed Forces’ Watchkeeper programme. Under the contract, worth £1.2 million, Rolls-Royce will supply tactical militar...

31 Aug 2006

Rexam to Build New Beverage Can Plants in Russia and Brazil

Rexam has announced that it is to build its second beverage can making plant in Russia as well as a new can end making plant in Brazil. The new plant in Russia is in Chelyabinsk in the Urals. Customers have already ma...

31 Aug 2006

New Market Report Discusses Polymers in Electronics

Designers of electrical and electronic components have a wide choice of polymers at their disposal - cost is a prime consideration but competition in the market place is imposing ever more stringent specification criteri...

From Smithers Rapra Technology Ltd 31 Aug 2006

Ultraviolet and Electron Beam Market Growth Re-Accelerates

Ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) usage posted a 35th consecutive annual gain in North American sales in 2005, reaching 95,000 metric tons of formulated chemical products, according to results of the RadTech bienni...

31 Aug 2006

UKCME to Review Student Learning Experience in Materials

The Higher Education Academy is launching a series of year-long Subject Reviews to inform future developments central to the student learning experience within disciplines. Individual reviews will be led by the Academy&r...

31 Aug 2006