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Gallium Nitride Markets - Commercial Markets Drive Power Electronics

Strategy Analytics' latest study, "Gallium Nitride Markets: Commercial Markets Drive Power Electronics," concludes that Military and High Power Electronic (HPE) applications will be the catalysts for the de...

14 Jun 2006

AMEX Approves Listing of Biotechnology Driven Ethanol Company Xethanol

Xethanol Corporation, a biotechnology driven ethanol company, has been notified by the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) that its common shares have been approved for listing on the Exchange. This approval is contingent upo...

14 Jun 2006

PC Shipments Grew by 12.6% in Q1 2006

Worldwide PC shipments grew by a healthy 12.6% in the first quarter of 2006 - ahead of March projections of 11.8% growth. Although PC shipment growth slowed from 15.1% in 2004 and 16% in 2005, the market continues to exc...

14 Jun 2006

Swales Aerospace Delivers Final Micro-Satellite for NASA's THEMIS Mission

Swales Aerospace announced the delivery of the last of five THEMIS micro-satellite spacecraft buses. The THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission is unique in that it is NASA&#...

14 Jun 2006

Gerdau Ameristeel Closes Sheffield Steel Acquisition

Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation has announced that its U.S. operating subsidiary, Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc., acquired all of the outstanding shares of Sheffield Steel Corporation of Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Sheffield Ste...

14 Jun 2006

New Technology Enables First Commercial Production of Multi-Alloy Aluminum Rolling Ingots

Novelis has unveiled Novelis Fusion technology, a new process that simultaneously casts multiple alloy layers into a single aluminum rolling ingot. This marks the first time that any company has achieved the commercial p...

14 Jun 2006

New Corrosion Test Facilities in Kuwait

TCR-KIL (a joint venture company between TCR Engineering Services (India) and Kuwait Industrial Laboratory Testing & Inspection Services Company), a leading material testing company in Kuwait has announced the settin...

14 Jun 2006

Iranian Azar Oil Field Declared Commercial

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) on Sunday 11 June decided to declare the Azar field in the Anaran Block in the western part of Iran commercial. The field was proven in summer 2005, and extensive testing and fu...

14 Jun 2006

Axcelis Introduces Optima HD Imax

Axcelis Technologies has introduced the new Optima HD, powered by Imax, for extremely high dose, low energy implant applications used for leading-edge memory and logic devices. An extension of the company's new Optim...

14 Jun 2006

DuPont Introduces Spallshield Composite Interlayer Technology

Auto industry experts predict that by 2010 40 percent of all new cars will feature sunroofs in response to consumer demands for brighter, more open vehicle interiors. In addition, the use of panoramic sunroofs, which pro...

14 Jun 2006

Degussa Starts Colorant and Polyester Plant Production in Shanghai

Degussa AG recently celebrated the start-up of its new polyesters and colorants plants at its multi-user site (MUSC) in Shanghai. On June 12, 2006, Dr. Alfred Oberholz, Dr. Manfred Spindler, and Dr. Hans-Peter Schauf...

14 Jun 2006

New Technique for Detecting Heavy Water

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have created a new method of detecting heavy water that is 30 times more sensitive than any other existing method. The detection method could be helpful in the fight a...

14 Jun 2006

China's Paper and Board Production Soars

China's production of paper and board had soared more than 150% over the last decade and was currently around 50 million tonnes per annum. The country's recovered paper imports had leapt from 12.3 million tonnes ...

14 Jun 2006

Investors Saturate Markets for Base Metals

More than 20% of the value of aluminium is currently in the control of the hedge funds, according to Jim Southwood, founder and President of Commodity Metals Management Company of the USA. "Unfortunately, we are at ...

14 Jun 2006

Negative Impact of China's Textile Manufacturing Sector on Energy and Water Consumption

China should give fresh consideration to textiles recycling and its beneficial impact on resource conservation, it was argued at the BIR Textiles Division meeting in Beijing by Rainer Binger of FWS GmbH & Co. KG, Ger...

14 Jun 2006