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Nova to Create Styrenix Unit and Restructure to Reduce Costs

NOVA Chemicals Corporation today announced it plans to restructure in order to better align resources and reduce costs. NOVA Chemicals’ styrene monomer and solid polystyrene assets in North America and the company&...

28 Jun 2006

Stealth Radar System from Ohio State

Ohio State University engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable, because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the military, and disaster ...

27 Jun 2006

MTI Micro Fuel Cell Technology Delivers on Energy Density Milestone

MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. (MTI Micro), the developer of the award-winning Mobion micro fuel cell technology and a subsidiary of Mechanical Technology Incorporated, announced today that it has achieved an energy density of...

27 Jun 2006

Development of Ultra Low-k Material and Interconnect Process for Next Generation Memory Devices

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. have announced that they have developed an ultra low dielectric constant spin-on glass (ultra low-k SOG) with a dielectric constant of k=2.4 and an interconnect (wiring) proce...

27 Jun 2006

Degussa Constructs New Production Plant for Solar Silicon

Degussa is significantly expanding its silane capacity with the construction of a monosilane plant in Rheinfelden, Germany. In a parallel project, Joint Solar Silicon GmbH & Co. KG (JSSI), Freiberg, a joint venture o...

27 Jun 2006

Boeing-Led Team Fires Surrogate Lasers from Airborne Laser Aircraft

A Boeing-led industry team and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) took a major step toward demonstrating the capability of the Airborne Laser (ABL) by successfully firing surrogate lasers from inside the aircraft. ...

27 Jun 2006

BOC Opens Largest Commercial Helium Facility in China

BOC has opened the largest commercial helium facility in China, a distribution center located in Suzhou. BOC opened the distribution center, which will supply gaseous and liquid helium to customers throughout China, ...

27 Jun 2006

Boart Longyear Sells Hardmaterials and Soft Rock Tools Division

Boart Longyear has announced the sale of their Hardmaterials & Soft Rock Tools division ("HMSR") to Equita Management GmbH ("Equita"), a private equity company located in Bad Homburg, Germany. ...

27 Jun 2006

Carbon Emissions from Aviation Growing Rapidly

Aviation will account for 5% of the world’s carbon emissions by 2050, according to the latest climate change study by UK scientists. In 2000, air traffic contributed 2% of global carbon emissions, but that figur...

27 Jun 2006

Fe-TAML. Catalysts Degrade Estrogenic Compounds

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have found that a rapid, environmentally friendly catalytic process involving Fe-TAML. activators and hydrogen peroxide breaks down...

27 Jun 2006

New Understanding of Blades to Lead to Better Cutting of Super Hard High Tech Materials

Theorectical estimation of dicing blade grindability for different abrasive grain sizes Advanced materials like AlTiC, sapphire and SiC are now commonly used in many devices. One popular area that they are applied in...

27 Jun 2006

OneSteel and Smorgon Steel Merger will Create Australian Steel Giant

OneSteel and Smorgon Steel today announced that they have reached an agreement under which OneSteel will acquire all of the shares in Smorgon Steel. Under the Proposed Transaction Smorgon Steel shareholders will recei...

27 Jun 2006

University of Surrey Awarded £118K to Build Uncooled Mid-Infrared Semiconducting Lasers

The University of Surrey has been awarded £118K as part of a DTI-funded consortium of two Universities and five industrial partners, led by Qinetiq, with total funding from the DTI of £1m for the next three y...

27 Jun 2006

Spiders Silk and Silica Composite Could Make New Biomaterial

Bioengineers at Tufts University have created a new fusion protein that for the first time combines the toughness of spider silk with the intricate structure of silica. The resulting nanocomposite could be used in medica...

27 Jun 2006

BASF and Stork Digital Imaging Launch Co-Branded Pigment Ink Solution

Two major players in the textile printing industry – BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, and Stork Digital Imaging, leading supplier of printing solutions for the textile and graphic industries &ndash...

27 Jun 2006