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Ashland Specialty Chemicals Licence Flexcure Technology to SII for Selected Electronics Applications

Ashland Specialty Chemical, a division of Ashland Inc., and Schenectady International, Inc. (SII) have reached an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement that allows SII to manufacture and market Ashland's patented Fle...

10 Feb 2005

Arcelor and Thyssen Krupp Join Forces to Develop High Manganese Steels for Automotive Applications

Arcelor and ThyssenKrupp Stahl agreed to combine research and development efforts to reach a technological breakthrough in the area of highly resistant and highly formable flat carbon steels for automotive applications...

10 Feb 2005

SUAL to Build New Non-Stick Aluminium Kitchenware Plant

SUAL Group is to construct a new ScovO plant for the production of aluminium non-stick kitchenware in Stupino (Moscow region). The production is expected to be launched at the beginning of the next year. The project is...

9 Feb 2005

Hitachi Chemical to Spend $10m to Add Another Semiconductor Production Base in China

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. has decided to reinforce its semiconductor-related materials business in China by adding a new production base for epoxy molding compounds primarily for logic device applications, which is s...

9 Feb 2005

Improved Display Facilities For S-3400N VPSEM

The recently-launched S-3400N variable pressure scanning electron microscope from Hitachi High-Technologies has improved display and signal mixing facilities for greater versatility of operation. In addition to its so...

8 Feb 2005

Intel Completes Initial Production Runs of Multi-Core Silicon

Intel Corporation today announced it has completed initial production runs of dual-core processors and provided further details about its multi-core plans to its customers, signaling the beginning of an era when PCs wi...

8 Feb 2005

AMR Technologies Awarded $2 Million Rare Earth Contract by Ferro

AMR Technologies Inc., a leading producer of performance materials announced today that it has been awarded a supply contract by Cleveland, Ohio based Ferro Corporation valued at a minimum of US$2 million over the ini...

8 Feb 2005

UCB Negotiate Better Price for Cytec's Surface Specialties Business

Cytec Industries Inc. announced today that it has agreed with UCB to amend the terms of its previously announced acquisition of UCB’s Surface Specialties business. The terms of the transaction were modified to re...

8 Feb 2005

Dow Chemicals Take Full Ownership of Argentinian Polyethylene Facility

The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it has acquired from Repsol/YPF the company’s 28 percent interest in PBBPolisur. Dow now has full ownership of the Argentinean facility, which it purchased with Repso...

From Dow Chemicals 3 Feb 2005

New Technique for Extracting Sugar from Trees May Provide a Renewable Energy Source

Researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) have invented a method for removing energy-rich sugars from wood, a process that could help develop agricultural feedstocks for ethanol producti...

3 Feb 2005

Thyssen Krupp to Close Italian Electric Steel Plant

The strategic plan drawn up by ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Terni for the Terni plant envisages the phased closure of electrical steel production at the Italian plant by the end of this year. At the same time the plan in...

2 Feb 2005

Schott to Close Janaer Glas

SCHOTT Jenaer Glas finds itself compelled to terminate production of consumer glassware in Jena. It is planned to close down all business activities by March 31, 2005. The closure will affect 120 employees. SCHOTT inte...

2 Feb 2005

Cargill's Corn-Based Plastics Business to be Known as NatureWorks LLC

Effective Jan. 24, 2005, the company that makes the proprietary, corn-based plastic resins marketed under the NatureWorks® PLA and Ingeo™ fiber brand names will be known as NatureWorks, LLC. The name change fol...

2 Feb 2005

University of St Andrews Receives ₤60K Grant from BOC to Develop Fuel Cell Technology

The development of commercial fuel-cell powered applications could be one step closer for scientists at the University of St Andrews. A new project has been launched with the support of a £60,000 grant from The ...

2 Feb 2005

Wax Found to be the Perfact Material for Modelling Ocean Floors and Tectonic Microplates

Physicists in the US have proven that wax is a perfect model of the ocean floors. Using a tub of wax, geophysicists at Cornell and Columbia have produced a predictive model of tectonic microplates - one of the most impor...

2 Feb 2005