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Oxonica Restructure and Expand Operations

OXONICA Limited, the Oxford-based applied nanomaterials company, has recently completed a restructuring of its board, and is pleased to announce a number of new appointments. Foremost is the appointment of Christopher Mo...

7 Jul 2004

Borden Chemicals to be Acquired by Apollo Management

Apollo Management, L.P., a private investment firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Borden Chemical, Inc., a leading supplier of thermoset and other high performance resins, adhesive...

7 Jul 2004

Posco to Develop Spring Steel for Engine Valves

POSCO struck an agreement on June 21 with Associated Spring Company (AS) to co-research the development of spring steel for heavy-duty engine valves. AS is the largest spring producer in North America. For more inform...

7 Jul 2004

Diversified Thermal Solutions Complete Acquisition of LWC Precast refractory Operation

Diversified Thermal Solutions Inc. announced today completion of the acquisition of a precast shape operation, LWC Precast. The acquired assets include a dry out furnace with a 5 million BTU burner system, which provides...

7 Jul 2004

Rensselaer Polytechnic Awarded $1m to Develop Synthetic Lubricant for Aircraft and Spacecraft

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received a $1 million grant, as part of a $2.5 million joint research project with the University of Florida, to develop a new generation of synthetic lubricant coatin...

7 Jul 2004

Technology Could Transform Trains into Railway Crack Detectors

Researchers in the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics have developed a novel non-contact method of using ultrasound to detect and measure cracks and flaws in rail track – particularly gauge corner ...

6 Jul 2004

Basell Commence Production of Polypropylene Resins in America

Basell announced today that it has started producing its metallocene-based Metocene brand polypropylene resins in commercial scale volumes at the company’s 200 KT Spheripol process plant in Bayport, Texas, USA. ...

6 Jul 2004

Hydro Completes Apart Alumina Refinery Transaction

Hydro completed the acquisition of the 65 per cent interest in the Jamaican alumina refinery Alpart. According to an agreement signed May 25, 2004, Hydro immediately sold this interest on to the Switzerland based Glencor...

6 Jul 2004

Boston Microsystems Develop Micro Hotplates

Engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100°C (2012°F), self-contained within a "laboratory" no bigger than a child's shoe. The micro-hotplates are only a f...

5 Jul 2004

Buzzmac Expands Nondestructive Testing Line

BuzzMac Software is expanding its line of nondestructive testers and testing programs. The main product, Buzz-o-sonic, is a virtual instrument designed to measure the dynamic elastic properties of materials from their re...

5 Jul 2004

Russian Researchers Develop Porous Piezoelectrics for Transformers

Unique material is designed by Rostov scientists supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE). This is a porous ceramic for a piezotr...

5 Jul 2004

Nowofol to Expand Plant and Capacity

The supervisory board and the executive board of NOWOFOL Kunststoffprodukte GmbH & Co. KG have decided end of June 2004 to expand the plant building as well as the production capacity. The size of the plant expansion...

5 Jul 2004

AK Steel Granted Permission to Further Reduce Workforce

AK Steel Corporation said that an arbitrator ruled today that the company may continue to suspend a provision in a labour contract with its largest hourly union that calls for a minimum base workforce. The company said t...

5 Jul 2004

Tata Steel Approve 2.4mtpa Steel Capacity Expansion

The Board of Directors of Tata Steel at its meeting held on 30th June, 2004,has approved the Company’s 2.4 million tonnes per annum steel capacity expansion programme at its Jamshedpur Works, at an estimated cost o...

5 Jul 2004

Heywood Williams to Sell Bristolpipe for US$33m

Heywood Williams Group PLC announces that Bristolpipe Corporation, a US subsidiary of the Group, has entered into a conditional agreement for the sale of Bristolpipe’s business, trading assets and trading liabiliti...

5 Jul 2004

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

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Oxonica Restructure and Expand Operations

Borden Chemicals to be Acquired by Apollo Management

Posco to Develop Spring Steel for Engine Valves

Diversified Thermal Solutions Complete Acquisition of LWC Precast refractory Operation

Rensselaer Polytechnic Awarded $1m to Develop Synthetic Lubricant for Aircraft and Spacecraft

Technology Could Transform Trains into Railway Crack Detectors

Basell Commence Production of Polypropylene Resins in America

Hydro Completes Apart Alumina Refinery Transaction

Boston Microsystems Develop Micro Hotplates

Buzzmac Expands Nondestructive Testing Line

Russian Researchers Develop Porous Piezoelectrics for Transformers

Nowofol to Expand Plant and Capacity

AK Steel Granted Permission to Further Reduce Workforce

Tata Steel Approve 2.4mtpa Steel Capacity Expansion

Heywood Williams to Sell Bristolpipe for US$33m

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