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MINOS Neutrino Experiment Launched at Fermilab

Officials at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory dedicated the MINOS experiment and the beam that will send subatomic particles called neutrinos from Fermilab, near Chicago, to a particle...

15 Mar 2005

Defenseless Plants Arm Themselves With Metals

A group of plants that uses metal to defend against infection may do so because the normal defense mechanism used by most other plants is blocked. Purdue University researchers found that this group of plants produces...

15 Mar 2005

BASF Has Developed its First Polyamide for Rotomoulding Technology

BASF has developed its first polyamide for the rotomoulding technology. This un-reinforced polyamide 6 (PA6) is sold under the brand name Capron BR30HS. The plastic’s first serial production application is in the a...

15 Mar 2005

A Wood-Fueled Electricity Generating Plant May Be in Your Future

A wood-fueled electricity generating plant may be in your future. In fact, the future is 'now' in some Scandinavian countries, said Dr. Darwin Foster, Texas Cooperative Extension forestry program leader. &...

15 Mar 2005

Stimir Completes Refurbishment at Alcan Steg Installation of Stimir Collar Forming & Collar Filling Technology

Stimir of Iceland has recently completed the refurbishment of the stub protection system at Alcan Aluminium Valais – Steg Smelter in Switzerland. The collar mounting machine and collar filling machine at Steg have bee...

14 Mar 2005

Molecular Wires & Corrosion Control Boost Performance of Conductive Adhesives

Electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) materials offer the electronics industry an alternative to the tin-lead solder now used for connecting display driver chips, memory chips and other devices to circuit boards. But be...

14 Mar 2005

Robots Party in Mexico Sporting Eastman's Copolyester

In Mexico, robots are roaming auto show rooms and going to parties. Many of these automated creations are made by Roger Industries, which uses Spectar copolyester plastic from Eastman Chemical Company to create its futur...

10 Mar 2005

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhejiang to Further Cooperation

CAS and Zhejiang Province will upgrade their cooperation efforts in the coming years, vowed the CAS President Lu Yongxiang and Zhejiang Provincial Governor Xi Jinping at their recent meeting at CAS headquarters in Beijin...

10 Mar 2005

Cabot Supermetals Opens Thin Films Manufacturing Facility in Etna, Ohio

Cabot Supermetals, a business unit of Cabot Corporation, has announced the official opening of its new Thin Films manufacturing facility located in Etna, OH. The new 90,000 sq. ft. state-of- the-art facility produces tan...

10 Mar 2005

Official Opening of New BP Marine Fuels Terminal

BP Marine officially opened its new home in North Fremantle yesterday (Tuesday 8th March) at a ceremony that marked a new era in BP’s support of the Port of Fremantle as an internationally competitive port. BP Marine h...

10 Mar 2005

Scientists Grow Thermoelectric Cobaltate Thin Films on Silicon

Thin films made of so-called thermoelectric materials could be used to convert heat directly into electric energy, or vise versa, for a variety of applications, including micro-chip-based chemical and biological sensors ...

10 Mar 2005

BASF Coatings Fills Europe’s Largest Industrial E-Coating Tank

BASF Coatings and Wessling Oberflächenveredelung GmbH (WOB) have agreed to work together in a close partnership. BASF Coatings is the system supplier for the cathodic e-coating and powder coating products used in Eu...

10 Mar 2005

Basell Launches New High-Performance Hostalen HDPE Resin for Use in Closures and Collapsible Tubes

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...

10 Mar 2005

Asahi Kasei Corporation Agreement Reached for Settlement of U.S. Litigation

Asahi Kasei Corporation and Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation have concluded an agreement for settlement of the class action litigation pending in a U.S. district court in which the plaintiffs are seeking damages from As...

10 Mar 2005

ANSI Signs Technical Cooperative Agreements with NATO Standardization Agency

The American National Standards Institute and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Standardization Agency signed today a Technical Cooperative Agreement to support the mutual value in cooperating in all fields o...

10 Mar 2005