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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

Hyundai Corp. Expands its Shipyard in China

Hyundai Corporation has completed the slipway construction of Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding Co., Ltd, an acquired shipyard in China, and announced its mid- to long-term development plan. The newly constructed “n...

31 Aug 2006

HP Labs Information Theory Paper Wins IEEE Prize

A paper by a team of HP Labs researchers and their colleagues has received the IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Joint Paper Award, given annually to recognize an outstanding paper published in the main j...

31 Aug 2006

Celanese Corporation to Acquire Acetate Products Limited

Celanese Corporation has announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase the business of Acetate Products Limited (APL), the cellulose acetate flake, tow and film activities of Corsadi BV. The transaction is subjec...

31 Aug 2006

Bridgestone Successfully Protects Trademark Rights in China

A tire sales store closely resembling the appearance of “Car wing” run by Bridgestone Corporation’s subsidiary in China, Bridgestone (China) Investment Co., Ltd., was recently opened in Guilin City, Chi...

31 Aug 2006