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Michelin to Sell Wheel Business to Mefro

Michelin is planning to transfer its Wheel Business to the German company Mefro, a specialist in the field. Michelin’s Wheel Business includes four distinct subsidiaries: “MRF” (Michelin Roues France), ...

17 Feb 2005

Ensinger Announces Marketing Agreement with Biomaterials Supplier Invibio

ENSINGER GmbH, a supplier and processor of engineering and high performance plastics, has announced a marketing agreement with Invibio®, a leading provider of biomaterial solutions to the medical device market. Th...

17 Feb 2005

Alcan to Acquire Food Packaging Plant in Poland

Alcan Inc. have announced that it has reached an agreement with the UK administrators of Parkside International, to acquire the assets of Parkside’s flexible food packaging plant in Zlotow, Poland. This acquisition...

17 Feb 2005

Competition to Aid Innovative Nanotechnology Startups

Nanochallenge is an international business plan competition organised by Veneto Nanotech. The competition aims at uncovering breakthrough nanotechnology applications and attracting the best entrepreneurial talents, i...

17 Feb 2005

World Leading Expert on Liquid Crystals Moves Team to University of York

A team of world-leading researchers headed by Professor John Goodby, an authority on liquid crystals, has moved to the University of York's Department of Chemistry. Professor Goodby and his research team moved to...

17 Feb 2005

Polysius to Build Cement Plant in Vietnam

Polysius, a ThyssenKrupp Technologies company, has been awarded by the Thang Long Cement Joint Stock Company a contract to build a cement production line with a daily output of 6,000 tonnes of cement clinker. The plant w...

16 Feb 2005

George W Bush Honours Corning Scientists for Catalytic Converter Technology

President George W. Bush today announced the winners of the 2003 National Medal of Technology, including a team of Corning Incorporated scientists for their invention of the cellular ceramic substrate. While working at C...

16 Feb 2005

Alcoa to Exit Alcoa Lingotes Casting Joint Venture

Alcoa today announced its intention to exit the Alcoa Lingotes Castings Ltd. (ALC) joint venture established in 2000 to produce specialty cast components for the automotive industry. Alcoa, the majority partner in the ve...

16 Feb 2005

Industry Minister Opens £12million Research Centre for Aerospace and Marine Composites

The first phase of a new £12 million hi-tech research centre that will lead the way for greater use of 'composite materials' was today opened by Industry Minister Jacqui Smith. For more information clic...

16 Feb 2005

Charles and Colvard Sign Long Term Silicon Carbide Supply Deal with Norstel

Charles & Colvard, Ltd. and Norstel AB today announced the signing of a Long Term Supply Agreement for the supply of silicon carbide (SiC) for use in the manufacturing of Charles & Colvard’s moissanite j...

16 Feb 2005

Swedish HTCVD Innovation Enables Production of High Quality Silicon Carbide for Commercial Applications

A Swedish innovation, known as HTCVD, makes it possible to produce high-quality silicon carbide (SiC). One of the inherent advantages is the high purity of the material produced. With the availability of high-quality s...

16 Feb 2005

ExxonMobil to Increase Santoprene Production Capacity

To help satisfy increasing demand for Santoprene(TM) thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV), ExxonMobil Chemical plans to add a new production line at its Pensacola, Fla. manufacturing site. The expansion is expected to be oper...

16 Feb 2005

3M Introduces Thinner Embedded Capacitance Material for High-Performance Circuit Boards

3M announced today that it has developed an improved embedded capacitance material that has a dielectric thickness of 8 microns and a capacitance density over 11 nanofarads per square inch, which makes it among the thinn...

16 Feb 2005

Alcan to Purchase Polish Food Packaging Plant

Alcan Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement with the UK administrators of Parkside International, to acquire the assets of Parkside’s flexible food packaging plant in Zlotow, Poland. This acquisitio...

16 Feb 2005

ICP For Wear Metals Analysis

The Teledyne Leeman Labs Prodigy ICP spectrometer, supplied in the UK by Lambda Advanced Technology, is ideally suited to the analysis of wear metals and other particles recovered from used oil lubricants. Its large area...

16 Feb 2005