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Ford Ramping up Capacity for Hybrids

Ford Motor Company has announced that it has begun engineering a hybrid transaxle for its next generation of hybrid vehicles and revealed that its new 3.5-liter V-6 engine will be hybrid capable. Both components will pla...

10 Nov 2005

Rolls-Royce Forecasts Engine Market Worth $61 Billion Over Next 20 Years

Rolls-Royce is predicting continued growth in business jet deliveries through the remainder of the decade and forecasts an engine market worth $61 billion over the next 20 years, with medium to long-range jets dominating...

10 Nov 2005

Eastman to Expand Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin Production in the Netherlands

Eastman Chemical Company has announced a 25 percent expansion of its hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin facility in Middelburg, The Netherlands. The planned completion date for the expansion is September 2006. "Throu...

10 Nov 2005

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited Gets European Safety Tick

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited has received prototype European safety approval for its fuel cell-powered combined heat and power (CHP) demonstration unit. CFCL’s demonstration CHP unit has been cleared for prototype...

10 Nov 2005

Ceradyne Receives $60 Million Order for Ceramic Body Armor

Ceradyne has announced the receipt of a $60.1 million delivery order for its lightweight ceramic body armor. This is the sixth delivery order received under the $461 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ...

10 Nov 2005

Boeing to Set New World Record for Distance with 777-200LR

Boeing is set to make aviation history when a Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner takes off from Hong Kong flying eastbound to London, attempting to set a world distance record. The 777-200LR (Longer Range) will take off with a ...

10 Nov 2005

Alcan Makes Major Investment in New Canadian Aluminum Research Lab

Alcan has announced that it is investing CAN$2.1 million in a share of a new university laboratory for integrated research into aluminum products and processes at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQA...

10 Nov 2005

Samsung Outlines Goals for the Future

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. invited an alysts to present the company's mid- and long-term visions in the largest-scale Analyst Day event ever hosted by an Asian corporation. The company announced five major goa...

10 Nov 2005

Applied Materials Wins 2005 "Best CVD Product'' Award

Applied Materials, Inc. has been honored with a 2005 "Best CVD (chemical vapor deposition) Product" award by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest dedicated chipmaking found...

10 Nov 2005

Japanese Steel Industry Criticizes U.S. Decision To Maintain Duties On Cut-To-Length Plate

The U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to maintain anti-dumping duties on Japanese carbon steel cut-to-length plate was sharply criticized by Hidenori Tazawa, Chairman, Japan Steel Information Center, her...

9 Nov 2005

Huntsman's Major Ethylene Unit Resumes Production

Huntsman Corporation has announced that its largest olefins manufacturing facility in Port Arthur, Texas has returned to production. The company had idled the plant on September 22nd in advance of Hurricane Rita&rsquo...

9 Nov 2005

Degussa AG Established New Research Center for “White Biotechnology”

Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, is establishing a Science to Business Center Bio as a new center for "white biotechnology". The center will start operating on January 1, 2006. Working in state-of-the-art laboratories a...

9 Nov 2005

New Borstar Polyethylene Packaging Film Grade

Combining easy processing with a unique spectrum of mechanical properties, Borealis’ new Borstar® FB4370 grade offers new and improved packaging solutions to polyethylene (PE) converters. Borstar FB4370 is ...

9 Nov 2005

Boeing to Discuss Space Station Testbed Options at AAS Conference

Boeing will be among aerospace industry leaders, scientists and NASA officials gathering next week near the Johnson Space Center to pick up where the Space Exploration Architecture Study (ESAS) left off in explaining the...

9 Nov 2005

Pitt Researchers Advance Quest for Higher-Temperature Superconducting Materials

Superconductors are materials with no electrical resistance that are used to make strong magnets and must be kept extremely cold--otherwise, they lose their superconducting abilities. Even the "high-temperature&quot...

9 Nov 2005