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Saint-Gobain to Sell Synflex

Saint-Gobain’s High Performance Materials Sector has signed an agreement to sell its subsidiary Synflex to Eaton Corporation. Synflex belongs to the High-Performance Plastics business line and develops, manufact...

13 Mar 2006

Freeman Technology Introduces 'Real Time' Bulk Density Measurement

Freeman Technology will demonstrate a new capability for the FT4 Powder Rheometer – ‘real time’ bulk density measurement. New software developments for the FT4 now make it possible to measure bulk densi...

13 Mar 2006

Rolls-Royce Wins $73 Million USAF Contract

Rolls-Royce has signed a $73 million contract to support the propulsion system on U.S. Air Force transport planes, the fourth such engine services agreement in recent months. Under the new contract, Rolls-Royce will p...

13 Mar 2006

Northwestern Acquires Two Uranium Properties in Niger

Northwestern Mineral Ventures has announced that it has completed the acquisition of two highly prospective uranium properties in the democratic west African country of Niger, one of the world's leading uranium produ...

13 Mar 2006

OM Group to Accelerate Growth Strategy in Electronic Chemicals WIth Acquisition of Plaschem

OM Group has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Plaschem Specialty Products Pte Ltd. and its subsidiaries. Terms of the transaction were not announced, but the company believes that the addition o...

13 Mar 2006

Steel Dynamics Announces JV to Manufacture Composite Railroad Ties

Steel Dynamics, Inc. has announced that it has formed a joint venture, Dynamic Composites, LLC, which it will substantially own and control, for the purpose of manufacturing high-strength, long-life composite railroad ti...

13 Mar 2006

Borealis to Close HDPE Plant in Norway

The Board of Borealis AS agreed to close the Borealis high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Bamble, Norway. The Board recommends that the Supervisory Board of Borealis AS concludes to close the 110,000 tonnes per yea...

13 Mar 2006

Renewable Portfolio Standards Help Wind Industry to Sail

In the United States, wind power is the fastest growing form of electricity generation. In 2005, more than 2,400 megawatts of wind energy were added to the nation’s power grid, and it is expected that the market wi...

13 Mar 2006

Alcan to Partner with PCP Canada in Cast Precision Plate Business

Alcan has announced that PCP Canada, a recently formed company based in the Saguenay, Quebec, will produce under license from Alcan aluminum cast precision plate products previously manufactured at Alcan’s Engineer...

13 Mar 2006

Purdie Researchers Use Environmentally Friendly Carbon Dioxide as a Refrigerant

Engineers developing technologies that use environmentally friendly carbon dioxide as a refrigerant instead of conventional, synthetic global-warming and ozone-depleting chemicals will meet at Purdue University in mid-Ma...

13 Mar 2006

CIA Welcomes EU Green Paper on Energy

The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) has welcomed the Green Paper on a European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy published by the European Commission. In particular, the CIA endorses the Gr...

13 Mar 2006

Materials Science Gets a Nitride Boost

Like modern day alchemists, materials scientists often turn unassuming substances into desirable ones. But instead of working metal into gold, they create strange new compounds that could make the electronic components o...

13 Mar 2006

Sandia's Z Machine Exceeds Temperatures Hotter than the Interiors of Stars

Sandia's Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin -- hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could e...

13 Mar 2006

Cleaner Petrol From 'Catalytic Cracking'

One problem confronting the oil industry is that extracted mineral oil (due to increasing scarcity) is becoming heavier and 'dirtier'. This is reflected, for instance, in a higher content of aromatics (which amon...

13 Mar 2006

European Intelligent Car Research

Although safety is improving on European roads, every year over 40,000 people die on Europe's roads and 1.4 million accidents occur. Clearly, there is still plenty of work to be done if the EU is to halve road fatali...

13 Mar 2006