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Robots and Inflatable Conveyor Belts Set to Slash Farm Labour Costs

Robots are on the march again into the last bastion of labour intensive industry - farming and horticulture. Research engineers and horticulture specialists at the University of Warwick are working together to devise a s...

8 Mar 2006

Europeans Develop New Sensor Network Technology

Barrels of chemicals that ‘talk’ to each other to improve safety and smart shelves that automatically log inventory changes are just some of the ways businesses stand to benefit from new sensor network techno...

8 Mar 2006

University of Kent Launches New Spin-Out Developing Real-Time Embedded Systems-on-Chip (SoC)

The University of Kent has launched UltraSoC Technologies Ltd, a new spin-out company that is developing a technology platform for real-time embedded systems-on-chip (SoC). This ground-breaking technology has produced im...

8 Mar 2006

Spanish Researchers Develop New Substrate Material

The wood shavings from sawmills can be used to produce an organic substrate for use in intensive crop growth in containers. Moreover, this substrate has the advantage that it can be recycled and is more economic than oth...

8 Mar 2006

Manchester Scientists Create New Bio-Gel

Scientists at The University of Manchester have created a new type of ‘bio-gel’ which provides a pH neutral environment for culturing cells in 3D, as published in the journal Advanced Materials (March 2006). The gel ...

8 Mar 2006

Carbon Fiber Cars Could Solve Many Problems

Highways of tomorrow might be filled with lighter, cleaner and more fuel-efficient automobiles made in part from recycled plastics, lignin from wood pulp and cellulose. First, however, researchers at the Department of...

8 Mar 2006

Linde Make Offer to Acquire BOC Group

Linde AG, Wiesbaden/Germany, has agreed to make a pre-conditional offer to acquire the entire share capital of The BOC Group plc, Windlesham/UK, for 1,600 pence in cash per share. The board of directors of BOC intends to...

8 Mar 2006

Alcan to Spend $7m to Increase Amoured Cable Production Capacity

Alcan Inc. announced today that it will invest US$ 7 million in its Saint-Maurice facility to significantly increase the site’s hard alloy aluminum strip capacity for the construction and industrial markets. The im...

8 Mar 2006

Sandvik to Close Kanthal's Italian Wire Drawing Plant

As a consequence of the ongoing review of Sandvik Materials Technology’s wire drawing plants, it has been decided to phase out operations at the unit in Cinisello, Italy, within the Kanthal product area. This ac...

8 Mar 2006

Hitachi Metals and Daido Steel to Form Specialty Steels Alliance

Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and Daido Steel Co., Ltd. today reached an agreement to form a comprehensive business alliance primarily in the specialty steel field. 1. Background Both companies are engaged in the manufacture ...

7 Mar 2006

Surmodics License Biodegradable Polymers from InnoCore

SurModics, Inc., a leading provider of surface modification and drug delivery technologies to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has obtained an option to acquire a license with exclusivity in defined field...

7 Mar 2006

Thermoactivated Adhesives Enable Joining of Disparate Materials

Innovative raw materials developed by Bayer MaterialScience AG make possible the formulation of thermoactivated adhesives for an extended range of applications - and they also join metal and plastic better than ever befo...

7 Mar 2006

Constructive Use for Wood Shavings from Sawmills

6 Mar 2006

BASF Create the First Thermoset Foam that can be Shaped under Heat

BASF’s innovations in the formulation and processing of Basotect® were instrumental in making it suitable for thermoforming. The new Basotect® TG is the first thermoset foam that can be shaped under heat. T...

6 Mar 2006

Lighter Vehicles May Win 'Oil Endgame'

Even the quintessential gas-guzzling SUV could become energy-efficient if it weighed a lot less and was run by a hybrid engine or a fuel cell, according to noted author and environmentalist Amory Lovins, who spoke Monday...

6 Mar 2006