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Huntsman Breaking New Ground With First Singapore Manufacturing Facility

Huntsman Corporation has broken ground for its new world scale JEFFAMINE® polyetheramines manufacturing facility, the company’s first production site in Singapore’s Jurong Island. The ground breaking c...

1 Dec 2005

BASF Invests in Plastic Logic

BASF, is investing in Plastic Logic Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom. Plastic Logic is one of the leading companies in the field of printable electronics, developing proprietary processes and technologies for use in a wid...

1 Dec 2005

Historic Milestone For Semiconductor Manufacturing In India

AMD has announced a broad agreement with SemIndia covering manufacturing, technology licensing, and business development to meet the growing demand for computers based on x86 microprocessors in India. SemIndia is working...

1 Dec 2005

Alcan to Realign its Pharmaceutical Plastic Packaging Operations

Alcan has announced today that it plans to close its Centralia, Illinois plastic packaging operation as part of an overall optimization of its Plastics Americas pharmaceutical packaging network. "Alcan regularly...

1 Dec 2005

PowdermatriX Hosts First Interactive Session on Spray Drying

In response to industry demand, the PowdermatriX Faraday Partnership has held its first interactive session on Spray Granulation. The half-day session, which highlighted improvements in materials processing, was held...

30 Nov 2005

Idemitsu and Sony to Jointly Develop Materials for OLED

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and Sony Corporation have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) on November 28, 2005 to jointly develop new superior Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) luminous materials. And to promote th...

30 Nov 2005

Can a Standby Label Cut Power Consumption?

Everybody complains about high energy prices. And yet it's so easy to save electricity – simply by switching off electrical appliances completely, rather than leaving them 'idling' in standby mode. The ...

30 Nov 2005

BlueScope Steel Vietnam Starts Production

BlueScope Steel today announced it had commenced first production from its new metallic coating line in Vietnam ahead of schedule. The line is part of a state-of-the-art metallic coating and painting facility being built...

30 Nov 2005

Alcan to Close Aluminum Cast Plate Plant in Vernon, California

Alcan has announced today that it will close its Vernon, California aluminum cast plate facility effective January 21, 2006. The Company is in discussions for the sale of equipment and real estate to potential buyers. ...

30 Nov 2005

American Superconductor Receive Another Order for a Wind Turbine Generator Control from Windtec

American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC), a leading electricity solutions company, today announced a follow-on order for its proprietary PowerModule-based wind turbine generator control systems from Windtec Systemtechn...

29 Nov 2005

Showa Denko to Build Fourth Hard Disk Media Plant in Singapore

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to build a new hard disk (HD) media plant in Singapore to meet rapidly increasing demand. The new plant, the fourth HD media plant for SDK and scheduled for start-up in November 2006, w...

29 Nov 2005

Magnetorheological Fluids Set to Revolutionise Dynamic Vehicle Suspension Systems

Modeling and Simulation of Magnetorheological Damper Behavior under Triangular Excitation Magnetorheological (MR) fluids are smart materials whose flow/viscosity properties can be modified by applying an electric field....

29 Nov 2005

Nanoparticle Synthesis Allows Particle Size and Shape to be Tailored to End Applications

Nanomaterials are increasingly gaining the attention of not only the scientific community, but also the public due to their unique properties which endear them to new and exciting applications. These special properties c...

29 Nov 2005

New Super Fast Way to Test Material Mechanical Properties

In work that could radically change how engineers search for new materials, MIT researchers have developed a way to test the mechanical properties of almost 600 different materials in a matter of days -- a task that woul...

29 Nov 2005

Siemens Power Wins Half a Billion Euro Order From Qatar

Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) has been awarded two major orders with a value of nearly half a billion euros by Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa). Qatar’s state power s...

29 Nov 2005