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Sumitomo Chemical Furthers Investment into LCD Materials Business

Sumitomo Chemical Company, has announced that it is to construct additional production lines for polarizing film at its plants in both South Korea and Taiwan. Both lines will be capable of fully-integrated production, fr...

2 Mar 2004

Toshiba Moves into Power Generation with Two New Power Stations

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has started commercial operation of two electricity and steam co-generation plants at Keihin Product Operations in Yokohama, Japan. Each plant features a gas-engine generator w...

2 Mar 2004

Alliant Techsystems Receives Orders Worth $67 Million

ATK (Alliant Techsystems) has received orders worth $67 million from the U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command, Rock Island, Ill., to continue production of 120mm training ammunition used by the Army’s M1A1/A2 Abrams m...

2 Mar 2004

AK Steel Signs Sale Agreement for Douglas Dynamics

AK Steel announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, Douglas Dynamics, LLC to DDL Acquisition Corporation, formed by Aurora Capital Group of Los Angeles. Douglas Dynamics is one o...

2 Mar 2004

LNM Win Exclusive Rights to Negotiate Privatisation of Polish Steel Producer Huta Czestochowa

Steel giant LNM have been granted exclusive rights to negotiate for the privatization of certain assets of steel company Huta Czestochowa SA (HCz) and the shares of Huta Stali Czestochowa Sp z.o.o by the State Treasury o...

1 Mar 2004

Danish Tax on Rigid PVC Materials is Abolished

The Danish Parliament has finally decided to abolish the tax on rigid PVC products after a vote was taken on the bill on the 26th of February. Of the 60 MP’s present, 48 voted in favour of the bill to overturn t...

1 Mar 2004

Nanovance to Base Operations in Austin, Texas

NanoVance Inc was founded by Ellery Buchanan, who was the former Vice President of New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium as well as former CEO of Integrated Solutions Inc, a semiconductor tool maker. They plan to base ...

1 Mar 2004

Nanorings, the Latest Member of the Nanometre-Scale Structures

Researchers at Georgia Tech have produced the latest nano-sized structure, adding to existing structures such as buckyballs, nanotubes, nanobelts and even nanosprings. Nanorings are complete circles formed by a self-coil...

27 Feb 2004

Shell Chemicals to Close Ethylene Oxide/Glycols Unit

Shell Chemicals have announced that they intend to permanently close one of their three ethylene oxide/glycols units at their Geismer chemical plant in Louisiana by the end of 2004. To minimise impact on customers, th...

27 Feb 2004

Battenfeld and Hebei B&S Form Agreement to Advance Chinese Business

An agreement between the extrusion division of US-based Battenfeld and Chinese, Hebei B&S Group (HBS) will see them advance their mutual business interests in China. Under the agreement Battenfeld companies will d...

27 Feb 2004

Freudenberg Acquire US Release Agent Manufacturer and Forms New Division

Freudenberg have established a new division, Freudenberg Chemical Specialties following their take over of US-based release agents company Chem-Trend. The move was taken to consolidate their lubrication activities. Th...

27 Feb 2004

Tosoh Take an 80% Stake in Philippines PVC Manufacturer

Tosoh have increased their share in the Philippine’s top PVC manufacturer, Philippine Resin Industries Inc. They accomplished this by acquiring 30% of the outstanding shares from Mitsubishi Corp., taking their shar...

27 Feb 2004

Nano-Tex License Stain Resisting Nanotechnology to Avondale Mills

Nano-Tex announced that it had licensed its textile performance enhancing nanotechnology to Avondale Mills, the largest producer of workwear and sportswear in America and a leader in the manufacture of cotton apparel. ...

26 Feb 2004

Cabot to Partner in Production and Marketing of Nanogel Filled Skylights

Specialty Chemicals manufacturer Cabot Corp and Super Sky Products, part of Vitro, have agreed to jointly produce and market a Polycarbonate skylight panel system filled with Nanogel(R) translucent aerogel. The 10mm a...

26 Feb 2004

Corning Launches Fibre for High Power Lasers

Corning Incorporated, a leader in specialty fiber, recently announced the introduction of a ytterbium-doped double clad fiber with all-glass cladding. This configuration enables output power in excess of 100 Watts. ...

26 Feb 2004