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High-Tech Coating to Change Hydrodynamic Performance and Reduce Fouling of Propellers and Water Jets

A strategic alliance between Rolls-Royce, the market leader in marine applications, and UCT Coatings Inc. is bringing new technology to the marine market and is about to start work on a $7m U.S. Navy research contract. ...

15 Jan 2008

Plans to Make Optical Fibre Communications Available for All Europeans

Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf compo...

11 Jan 2008

New Technique Casts Doubts on Existing Surface Roughness Measurement Methods

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel technique for measuring the roughness of surfaces that is casting doubt on the accuracy of current procedures. Their results...

11 Jan 2008

NIST Issues First Reference Standards for Biomedical Nanoparticles

NIST has issued the first set of reference materials for biomedical researchers working with gold nanoparticles.

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 11 Jan 2008

Silver-Rich Semiconducting Nanoclusters Produced and Characterized

Nanoscopic “lumps” of atoms, known as clusters, are the specialty of a research team headed by Dieter Fenske from the University of Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The production and characteri...

10 Jan 2008

Aleris International to Permanently Close Canadian Aluminum Coil Coating Facility

Aleris International, Inc. announced today that it will be permanently closing its Toronto, Ontario coil coating facility. Production will be phased-out during the first quarter of 2008 and the site will be permanently c...

9 Jan 2008

Stainless Steel and High Temperature Alloys Specialists Combined to Form United Performance Metals

Ferguson Metals and AIM International have been merged and now trade as United Performance Metals, after their acquisition by O'Neal Steel. They specialze in specialty grades of stainless steels, nickel alloys and cobalt alloys.

9 Jan 2008

Superconducting Cable Project Wins Energy Efficiency Prize

The Supercable project has secured a 500,000 Euro prize from the Spanish Energy Company ENDESA for energy efficiency, relating to superconducting cables they are working on.

8 Jan 2008

Reliance Steel Sell Coils Division

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. announced today that it has sold the assets and business of the Encore Coils division of Encore Group Limited, a subsidiary of Reliance, to Samuel Son & Co., Ltd., headquartered in M...

8 Jan 2008

Ausmelt Inks Deal with Leading Chinese Metals Producer

Ausmelt Ltd has signed a major new contract with a leading Chinese metals producer to provide Ausmelt TSL Technology for a new copper smelter to be built in the People's Republic of China. The client company has r...

8 Jan 2008

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