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ThyssenKrupp AG and Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) to Build New Brazilian Steel Mill

ThyssenKrupp AG and Brazilian ore producer Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) are to build a new steel mill in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Schulz, Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG, an...

18 Jan 2005

Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements Reveal a New Form of Chemistry

A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens the door to using &#39...

17 Jan 2005

Floating Films on Liquid Mercury May Lead to Advances in Nanotechnology, Molecular Electronics

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin films of organic chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and...

17 Jan 2005

Copper Versus Copper Helps Explore For A New Form Of Matter

Scientists searching for evidence that a particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a new form of matter not seen since the Big Bang and eager to study its prop...

17 Jan 2005

Toshiba Improves Performance of RGB LED

Toshiba Corporation has announced the introduction of a driver IC that improves the performance of RGB LEDs used in mobile phones and other digital electronic products. RGB LEDs have the ability to deliver white light ...

17 Jan 2005

Allegheny Receives Fuel Cell Material Development Contract

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated announced that ATI Allegheny Ludlum, an Allegheny Technologies company, has been awarded a subcontract from the University of Pittsburgh with support from the U.S. Department of Energy...

17 Jan 2005

Saudi Aramco Selects Siemens Technology for Seawater Filtration

The Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) has received a multi-million dollar order to supply 20 horizontal sand filters for the Ain Dar and Shedgum seawater filtration project for Saudi Aramco’...

17 Jan 2005

Rapra Enhances Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy Capability

Rapra has recently enhanced its capability with respect to gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy by the addition of a LECO Pegasus III instrument. Rapra previously had a good existing capability based on Agilent and P...

17 Jan 2005

Major Boost for Australian Automotive Research and Development

Geelong’s position as a centre for leading edge automotive research and development has had a major boost with the Federal Government’s announcement of funding for two Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs). ...

13 Jan 2005

New Energetic Materials Research Centre

The new Energetic Materials Research Centre (EMRC) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will pioneer the development of Singapore’s research capabilities in the area of energetic materials. These materials, wh...

13 Jan 2005

Ceradyne Opening New Vehicle Armor Design Facility

Ceradyne announced the opening of a new vehicle armor design and armored vehicle prototype facility in Wixom, Mich. Ceradyne is expanding its armor systems design and engineering capability for both military and comme...

12 Jan 2005

New Ceramic Motors for Medical Device Applications

Biophan Technologies will demonstrate its proprietary ceramic motors for use in a wide range of medical and life science devices at the Medical Design and Manufacturing West (MD&M West) conference, January 10-12, at ...

12 Jan 2005

Boeing Completes First 7E7 Composite Fuselage Section

Boeing recently completed the first full-scale composite one-piece fuselage section for its new 7E7 Dreamliner program, demonstrating concepts for 7E7 production that begins next year. The structure, 22-feet (7-meter...

12 Jan 2005

Polymer Helps Rebuild Faces

British and Russian Surgeons are using a revolutionary honeycomb-like polymer implant to help re-build the faces of children injured in accidents or born with serious defects. The material bonds with bone without causing...

12 Jan 2005

Kobe Steel to Stop Production of Chromate-treated Hot Dip Galvanized Steel Sheet

Kobe Steel, Ltd. has announced that it has completed development of hot dip galvanized (CG) steel sheet with no chromate layer and has begun commercial production. The new steel sheet will replace the current chromat...

From Kobe Steel 12 Jan 2005