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Basell Launches New High-Performance Hostalen HDPE Resin

Basell has developed a new HDPE resin using its proprietary Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) technology to deliver an unprecedented combination of outstanding environmental stress cracking resistance (ESCR) and hi...

16 Mar 2005

Dow Corning Launches New Silicone Gel for Automotive Electronics Market

Dow Corning Corporation today introduced a new thixotropic dielectric silicone gel to protect sensitive electronic devices used in the automotive market. Applications of the new gel in power electronic devices include fo...

16 Mar 2005

HP Plans Future Strategy for a Computing Future Beyond Traditional Silicon Technology

For the first time, HP has laid out in one place a comprehensive, practical strategy for a computing future beyond traditional silicon technology. The vision – and the challenges – are captured in nearly t...

16 Mar 2005

230-Foot Wind Turbine to Stir Up Renewable Energy Research

A 230-foot wind turbine has powered its way to center stage at the new Renewable Energy Research and Demonstration Center at the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) in Morris. Comple...

16 Mar 2005

Nuvera Provides Fuel Cell System to Deere & Company

Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc., an international developer of multi-fuel reforming and proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology, today announced the sale of a 5.5 kW H2e(TM) fuel cell power module to Deere & Company, t...

16 Mar 2005

Kennametal Breaks Ground in China for New Manufacturing Facility

Kennametal Inc. have announced that it broke ground on Tuesday, March 15 for the firm's new Chinese manufacturing plant. Located in the Tianjin Economic Development Area (TEDA), the facility, initially sized at 15,000 sq...

16 Mar 2005

UK Earmarks £100 Million for Automotive, Energy and Aerospace Sectors

Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury, today announced £100 million for the next round of the Technology Programme with automotive, energy and aerospace sectors set to benefit. Lord Sainsbury urged UK...

16 Mar 2005

WaferMasters and TEL Announce Agreement on SRTF Technology

WaferMasters, Inc. and Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) announced today that the intellectual property rights for Single Wafer Rapid Thermal Furnace (SRTF) technology, previously jointly owned by WaferMasters and TEL, will n...

16 Mar 2005

Degussa Starts New Project House

Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, has started its new Project House Process Intensification. Over the next three years, the company will invest €15 million in researching new process strategies and reactor designs that make p...

16 Mar 2005

Research Findings Could Help Develop Clean Energy Technology

Chemical engineers at Purdue University have made a discovery that may help to improve a promising low-polluting energy technology that combusts natural gas more cleanly than conventional methods. The finding revolves...

16 Mar 2005

Harris & Harris Group Invests in Silicon Carbide Forming Polymers

Harris & Harris Group, Inc., announced today that it has exercised its option to invest an additional $500,000 in Starfire Systems, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Malta, New York. With this investmen...

16 Mar 2005

Alcan Completes Sale of its Controlling Interest in Aluminium de Grèce

Alcan Inc. announced today that it has completed the sale of its controlling interest in Aluminium de Grèce (AdG) to Mytilineos Holdings S.A. and certain affiliated companies (Mytilineos). An agreement on...

16 Mar 2005

Owens Corning Fiber Glass Certified as Industry’s Highest Level of Recycled Content

At the NAHB Green Building Conference at Atlanta, Owens Corning today announced that its line of fiber glass insulation products has been certified to contain an average of 35 percent recycled content by leading third-pa...

16 Mar 2005

Experiments on Ceria (Cerium Oxide) Nanoparticles May Lead to More Efficient Catalytic Converters

Experiments on ceria (cerium oxide) nanoparticles carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory may lead to catalytic converters that are better at cleaning up auto exhaust, and/or to more...

16 Mar 2005

Building the World’s Largest Civilian Aircraft Poses a Logistics Challenge

The challenge of getting the various parts of the A380 to Toulouse, where the aircraft is assembled, has led Airbus to develop its own logistics. Until now, it has mainly used the voluminous A300-600ST, known as the Belu...

15 Mar 2005