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New Panel PCs for Industrial Applications

Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) is introducing two new Panel PCs: the Simatic Panel PC 577 for standard industrial requirements and the more rugged Panel PC 477 for more advanced applications. Both device types a...

26 Oct 2005

NASA Successfully Tests Space Shuttle Main Engine

For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, NASA's Stennis Space Center, Miss., returned to its primary business today, testing space shuttle main engines. Engineers successfully test-fired an engine for 520 secon...

26 Oct 2005

Hitachi Metals Establishes Tool Steels Machining, Sales and Marketing Center in Northern China

Hitachi Metals, Ltd. announced today plans to establish a high-grade tool steels sales and marketing branch of Hitachi Metals (Dong Guan) Specialty Steel Co., Ltd. in Dalian, China. Dalian in northern China is experienci...

26 Oct 2005

New Evidence About the Rise of Oxygen

Scientists believe that oxygen first showed up in the atmosphere about 2.7 billion years ago. They think it was put there by a one-celled organism called "cyanobacteria," which had recently become the first living thing ...

26 Oct 2005

Bridgestone Officially Opens Steel Cord Plant in China

Bridgestone Corporation has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary in China, Bridgestone (Shenyang) Steel Cord Co., Ltd., held the official opening today for a plant producing steel cord in Shenyang, Liaoning Provinc...

26 Oct 2005

SUAL Group Maintains Strong Production Growth

SUAL Group has announced its production results for the first nine months of 2005. The results show that production continues to grow across the SUAL Group. The overall production volume exceeded the results for the same...

25 Oct 2005

Faraday Plastics Confirms UK Research and Development Needs

Faraday Plastics reports on a continuing need to resource research and development activities for the UK's plastics industries. Earlier this month, Faraday Plastics exhibited at Interplas 05. Director Richard Simp...

25 Oct 2005

Boeing Completes Sale of Canadian Facility to Arnprior Aerospace

Boeing has completed the sale of its operations in Arnprior, Canada, to Arnprior Aerospace, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Industries, Inc. Boeing did not disclose terms of the sale. The operations in...

25 Oct 2005

Mitsui Chemicals to Launch Liquid EPDM

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI) announced that it has decided to launch a new product, liquid EPDM, in addition to existing solid EPDM. MCI manufactures and sells EPDM, ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer, (trade name: Mits...

25 Oct 2005

Mittal Steel Company Acquires a 93% Stake in Kryvorizhstal in Ukraine

Mittal Steel Company has announced that it has agreed to acquire a 93.02% stake in the capital of KryvorizhStal from the State Property Fund of Ukraine following a public auction. Under the terms of the share purchase...

25 Oct 2005

Boral Expands its Plasterboard Capacity

Boral Australian Gypsum Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boral Limited, is to relocate its Brisbane plasterboard manufacturing and distribution base to a new, larger site close to the Brisbane River in the suburb of...

25 Oct 2005

Kyocera's First European Solar Module Production Facility

Japanese technology group Kyocera Corporation has increased its manufacturing capacity for solar modules by opening its first European solar production plant in Kadan, a northern town of the Czech Republic. The official ...

25 Oct 2005

Hydro Seeks Hydrogen Car Users

It's still possible to be a hydrogen car user in connection with Norways first hydrogen fuelling station. The target group is future-oriented local interests with an environmental profile, said Hydro's Ulf Hafsel...

25 Oct 2005

Degussa Sells US American Metallurgy Unit

Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, is selling its subsidiary ESM Group Inc. (ESM), Amherst, NY, to the US American financial investment company Platinum Equity, Los Angeles. The purchase price is 55 million US dollars (46 million e...

25 Oct 2005

Ceradyne Receives $47.8 Million Ceramic Body Armor Contract

Ceradyne has announced the receipt of a $47.8 million delivery order for its lightweight ceramic body armor. This is the fifth delivery order received under the $461 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ...

25 Oct 2005