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Huntsman Expands Manufacturing of Key Specialty Amine Product

Huntsman Corporation is expanding its capability to manufacture its Diglycolamine Agent (DGA Agent) amine product, which will increase capacity by more than 20%. The expansion at Huntsman’s Port Neches, Texas manuf...

4 Aug 2006

DuPont Announces Research Agreement with Affinergy for BioSurfaces

DuPont announced it has entered a research agreement with Affinergy, Inc., a Duke University spinout, to assist in the company's research and development of a new line of bio-based products for its BioSurfaces busine...

4 Aug 2006

BHP Billiton Opens Global Technology Centre in Perth, Australia

BHP Billiton has launched a global technology centre in Perth, Western Australia, one of three global innovation centres. Located within the Australian Resources Research Centre at Technology Park, the Perth Technolo...

4 Aug 2006

Novel 3-D Microbeam Experiment Enables Direct Proof of the Mughrabi Model of Metal Stress

What happens to metals when you bend them? The question isn't as easy as you may think. A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Un...

4 Aug 2006

Molex Use BASF's Polybutylene Terephthalate for Automotive Connectors

The electronics company Molex Elektronik GmbH of Ettlingen, Germany, a subsidiary of Molex Automotive, is using Ultradur® High Speed B4300 – BASF’s PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) with improved flow prop...

4 Aug 2006

Biodiesel Byproduct can be Used as a Growth Supplement for Chickens

Glycerine, a byproduct of biodiesel production, can be used as a dietary supplement for growing broiler chickens, according to research by University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture poultry scientists. Finding val...

4 Aug 2006

RUSAL Begins Bauxite Exploration in North Onega Region

RUSAL, the world's third largest aluminium producer, has announced the start-up of exploration works at the Plesetsky area of the North Onega Bauxite Deposit. The explored bauxite resources will be registered in t...

4 Aug 2006

Rusal Clarifies Position on Azerbaijan Aluminium Smelter

In light of statements in various media about the alleged beginning by RUSAL of the construction of an aluminium smelter in Azerbaijan, the Company deems it necessary to clarify the current status of the project. RUSA...

4 Aug 2006

Bespak to Withdraw from Loss-Making Consumer Dispensers Business

Bespak plc, a leader in devices for inhaled drug delivery and anaesthesia, today announces that it will withdraw from its loss-making Consumer Dispensers business segment, based in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Over the ne...

4 Aug 2006

ThyssenKrupp and EADS Jointly Takeover Atlas Elektronik

With the closing successfully concluded on August 3, 2006, the takeover of Atlas Elektronik has now been consummated. In the first phase of the deal, ThyssenKrupp and EADS acquire 60- and 40-percent stakes in Atlas Elekt...

4 Aug 2006

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Looks to Merge with Companhia Siderurgica Nacional

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Corporation today announced that it has negotiated the material points of an arrangement that, when completed, would combine the North American assets of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional ("CSN&quot...

4 Aug 2006

JFE Steel Establishes Technology for Manufacturing Silicon Feedstock for Solar Cells

JFE Steel Corporation has announced that it has succeeded in manufacturing silicon feedstock (Solar grade silicon - SOG) used in ingot wafers for solar cells. The company has started construction of a commercial plant wi...

3 Aug 2006

Development of Standards for Solid-State Lighting

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Building Technologies Program and ANSI-accredited standards developer the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) have signed a memorandum of understanding to partner...

3 Aug 2006

Steel Tonnages Restored to Pre-Katrina Levels

The American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) kicked off its event in New Orleans last week with the announcement that steel, the leading commodity in the Port of New Orleans, has returned to pre-Katrina tonnage ...

3 Aug 2006

Alloy Steel Awarded Manufacturing Order from OneSteel

Alloy Steel International Inc. through its Australian subsidiary, Alloy Steel Australia (Int.) Pty Ltd., has been awarded a manufacturing order from OneSteel Ltd. Alloy Steel will supply a series of wear resistant and...

3 Aug 2006