Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced
it has agreed with ORKLA ASA (Orkla) to exchange their stakes in a Norwegian
smelting partnership and a Swedish extrusion joint venture in order to focus
on their respective areas of expertise and best practices. Alcoa will receive
Orkla’s 50 percent stake in Elkem Aluminum ANS while Orkla will receive
Alcoa’s 45 percent stake in the $3.7 billion SAPA extrusion profiles business.
Lurgi, a 100% subsidiary of the Air
Liquide Group, will build a second generation of biofuel plant at Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe, Germany in a joint project with the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology
(KIT). This pilot plant will demonstrate the viability of the three-stage bioliq
process.
The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in
novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come
closer following recent progress with some of the remaining underlying mathematical
problems. In particular, the operator theory used to describe interactions between
particles at atomic scales or smaller where quantum mechanical properties are
significant needs to be enhanced to deal with systems where digital information
is processed or transmitted.
Researchers at MIT have made significant progress in understanding a class of materials that has resisted analysis for decades. Their findings could lead to the rapid discovery of a variety of useful new kinds of glass m...
Air Products (NYSE: APD) has signed two contracts with Nokia to supply nitrogen to its Beijing and Dongguan plants in China for use in the company’s electronics assembly and packaging process. Nokia has recently co...
Air Force and University
of Dayton Research Institute engineers together have identified Joint Helmet
Mounted Cueing System, or JHMCS, display unit materials and processing issues
and developed a repair capability for damaged systems.
Eastman
Chemical Company announced today that its customer Gamila Products, a retail
brand of Gamil Design based in Raleigh, N.C., has introduced a new collection
of tea and herbal infusers named The Teastick Gems. The product line is made
with Eastman Tritan™, a new-generation copolyester that balances the properties
of easy processing, clarity, dishwasher durability, toughness, and heat and
chemical resistance.
Groundbreaking for the new Ion Beam Laboratory is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec.
16 at 1 p.m. on Kirtland Air Force Base east of Sandia’s
Processing Engineering & Technologies Lab (PETL) building.
Artificial intelligence has been used in a EUREKA-backed project to develop a quality control system that greatly reduces the risk of human error on assembly lines.
The four teams who worked on Project E!3450-QSPAI hav...
Participants in the workshop sponsored by Freeman
Technology and C-Therm
Technologies, held on 17 November at the 2008 AAPS Annual Conference and
Exposition in Atlanta, were given practical insights on the topic of "Powder
Flow & Process Analytical Technology – Tools for Implementation of
QbD".
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