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Cree Now Selling 100 mm Silicon Carbide Substrate and Epitaxy Materials

Cree has announced that it can now take orders for 100 mm (4-inch) n-type silicon carbide (SiC) substrates and epitaxy material. The current Cree standard for SiC is 3-inch diameter material. The announcement is being ma...

26 Sep 2005

Ceradyne Receives $14.6 Million Orders for Ceramic Armor for Elite Soldiers

Ceradyne has received orders totaling $14.6 million for its lightweight ceramic armor systems: approximately $12 million for certain elite U.S. fighting units and $2.6 million for the U.S. Marine Corps. Shipments are exp...

26 Sep 2005

Inco Re-Organizes Global Operations

As part of its global growth program, Inco Limited has announced a re-organization of its global operations into two distinct units – Asia/Pacific and North America/Europe Operations. As part of the re-organizat...

26 Sep 2005

Boeing Forecasts China Requiring 2,600 New Airplanes Worth $213 Billion Over Next 20 Years

Boeing has detailed its 2005 Current Market Outlook (CMO) for the People's Republic of China, forecasting a requirement in China for just over 2,600 new airplanes worth $213 billion over the next 20 years. Over the f...

26 Sep 2005

Bodycote Materials Testing - USA Laboratories Can Certify Materials for RoHS Requirements

RoHS - Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Within the past few years, governments around the world have been tightening measures aimed at keeping electronic p...

26 Sep 2005

Alcoa Approves Investments in Brazil That Will Total $1.6 Billion

Alcoa has announced that its Board of Directors has approved investments in Brazil that will total $1.6 billion in the company's world-class Brazilian upstream operations, including: a 2.1 million metric ton per year...

26 Sep 2005

Alcan Expands Australian Presence

Alcan has announced that it has acquired the capsules and closures distribution businesses of Classic Packaging and Nellie Products. Both companies are subsidiaries of Foster’s Group, one of the worldwide leaders i...

26 Sep 2005

Spectro Plasma Generator Powers Metal Analysis to New Levels of Performance

Spectro has announced that it has started shipping their stationary metal analyzers (SpectroLAB and SpectroMAXx) with a new excitation system that brings performance to levels not seen before in this industry. The new Sp...

26 Sep 2005

Smart Concrete May Improve Construction of Levees

The failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points out the need for new technologies to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability, according to Deborah D. L. Chung, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo materia...

26 Sep 2005

Development of a Universal Nanoscale Material Testing System (n-MTS)

The design, development and manufacturing of revolutionary products such as the automobile, airplane and computer owe a great deal of their success to the large-scale material testing systems (MTS) that have provided eng...

26 Sep 2005

NIST F1, The world's Best Clock Now More Accurate

The world's best clock, NIST-F1, has been improved over the past few years and now measures time and frequency more than twice as accurately as it did in 1999 when first used as a national standard, physicists at the...

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 26 Sep 2005

Physicists Measure How Close Speeding Atoms Can Come to a Surface Before the Atoms' Wavelengths Change

University of Arizona physicists have directly measured how close speeding atoms can come to a surface before the atoms' wavelengths change. Theirs is a first, fundamental measurement that confirms the idea that ...

26 Sep 2005

Cabot Corporation and Showa K.K. Announce Agreement on Carbon Black JV

Cabot Corporation has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cabot International Capital Corporation (CICC), has entered into an agreement with Showa Denko K.K. pursuant to which CICC will become the sole owner of S...

22 Sep 2005

Shell Eyes Big Opportunities in China

Over the next five to 10 years, China's continuing and rapid economic growth and its programme to liberalise trade will offer very significant business opportunities for foreign chemical companies. These will include...

22 Sep 2005

Timken Proceeds With Key Part of Automotive Group Restructuring

The Timken Company has announced plans to close its Clinton, S.C., plant -- with production being phased down over the next two years. The decision is part of an ongoing program to increase competitiveness of its Automot...

From The Timken Co. 22 Sep 2005