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Rio Tinto to Sell Australian Uranium Project

Rio Tinto has signed an agreement to sell the Kintyre uranium project located in Western Australia to a joint venture consortium comprising subsidiaries of Cameco Corporation and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd for US$495...

11 Jul 2008

Confocal Raman and Atomic Force Microscope Wins Prestigious Research Award

WITec
microscope technology has been selected as a winner of the prestigious 2008
R+D 100 Award. It honors the automated Confocal Raman and Atomic Force Microscope
combination alpha500.

From WITec GmbH 11 Jul 2008

Dow Acquisition to Reinforce Position as World's Leading Chemical and Materials Manufacturer

Dow and Rohm and Haas today announced a definitive agreement, under which Dow will acquire all outstanding shares of Rohm and Haas common stock for $78 per share in cash.

11 Jul 2008

Textron Buys Leading Manufacturer of Electrical Connectors and Cable Assemblies

Textron Inc.'s Greenlee business unit has completed an acquisition of Utilux, a leading manufacturer of electrical connectors and cable assemblies for electrical distributors and a number of European industrial segme...

10 Jul 2008

NLMK Steel to Purchase Cold Rolling Mill

Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has entered into a contract with SMS Demag, the German company, to acquire a one-stand reversing cold-rolling mill. The mill has an annual capacity of 350,000 tonnes, and the contract is worth ov...

10 Jul 2008

Supplier to Aircraft and Energy Industry Updates Testing Facilities with Help from Zwick

Thanks to recent modernizations by Zwick, Leistritz's testing machines now satisfy ASTM and Nadcap requirements.

From ZwickRoell GmbH Co. KG 10 Jul 2008

Ceradyne to Acquire Technology Developer for Logic and Memory Chips

Ceradyne, Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger to acquire SemEquip, Inc. for approximately $25 million in cash at closing, plus contingent payments of up to $100 million durin...

10 Jul 2008

Applied Materials Start Construction on New Business Hub for Asia

At a ceremony today, Economic Development Board Chairman Lim Siong Guan, Applied Materials executives, and U.S. Ambassador Patricia Herbold broke ground for the construction of a new Singapore operations facility that will serve as a hub for Applied’s business activities throughout Asia.

8 Jul 2008

Recticel Joint Venture to Acquire Moulded Foam Manufacturer

Proseat (joint venture between Recticel (51%) and Woodbridge (49%)) has signed an agreement for the takeover of all the shares of Indepol, a Spanish moulded foam manufacturer located near Barcelona. In January 2005, P...

8 Jul 2008

New Extreme High Resolution SEMs from FEI

With its announcement today of the Magellan Family, FEI Company introduced a new class of instruments called extreme high-resolution scanning electron microscopes (XHR SEMs). The Magellan XHR SEM allows scientists and engineers to quickly see things they could not see before.

8 Jul 2008

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