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ArvinMerior Sells Coil Costings Business to Wills Stein and Partners for $162.5m

ArvinMeritor, Inc. announced today that it has sold Roll Coater, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, to an affiliate of Willis Stein & Partners. The cash purchase price of the stock transaction is approximately $162.5 m...

6 Dec 2004

Sumitomo and Tosoh to Dissolve Polyethylene Joint Venture

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (“Sumitomo”) and Tosoh Corporation (“Tosoh”) today announced an agreement to re-organize collaboration on linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) production through the...

6 Dec 2004

Posco Form Technological Partnership with GMH Daewoo

On November 11, 2004, POSCO entered into a technology partnership agreement with GMH Daewoo at the POSCO Center, and set up the Technology Cooperation Committee to oversee the development of automotive steel. The two ...

2 Dec 2004

Growth of LCD Market to Slow in 2005 According to Report

While the worldwide market for processing equipment for TFT-LCDs will grow 45% to reach $4.8 billion in 2004, a combination of several factors will drop the growth rate to only 7% in 2005, according to the report LCD Pro...

2 Dec 2004

Researchers Compost Old Mobile Phones

Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group, in conjunction with PVAXX Research & Development Ltd, have devised a novel way to recycle discarded mobile telephones - bury them and watch ...

30 Nov 2004

MIT and KIST Initiate Program on Spintronics which Could Benefit Data Storage and Communication

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory have launched a 10-year program in spintronics, a field that could lead to new ways for storing and communicating inform...

26 Nov 2004

BCS Trial Baosteel’s Cold Headed Steel

Recently, US BCS Company have come to Baosteel Co., Ltd. and held technology exchanges with Baosteel on cold-headed steel. BSC Company is the third largest purchaser of cold-headed steel in US with a large quantity of mo...

26 Nov 2004

Bluescope Steel to Purchase Assets of Prefabricated Steel Structure Manufacturer Ranbuild

BlueScope Steel Limited today announced that its BlueScope Lysaght business has entered into a conditional contract to purchase the assets of the Ranbuild business. The transaction will settle on 1 December 2004. Ranbuil...

26 Nov 2004

Alcoa, Alcan and the Government of the Republic of Guinea Have Signed a Protocol for Developing an Alumina Refinery in Guinea

Alcoa today announced that its Alcoa World Alumina LLC affiliate, Alcan Inc. and the Government of the Republic of Guinea have signed a protocol for developing jointly a 1.5 million metric ton per year (mtpy) alumina ref...

25 Nov 2004

ICI to Sell Vinamul Polymers Business to Celanese for $208m

ICI has agreed to sell the US, Canadian and European Vinamul Polymers business ("Vinamul") of National Starch and Chemical Company to Celanese for US$208 million (£112m) in cash. Net proceeds after tax...

24 Nov 2004

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