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Siemens Receives 7.4 million Euro Order for Performance-Enhancing Components in Chilean Copper Mine

Minera Los Pelambres Ltda., a Chilean mining company, has awarded the order to modernize the mill gearless drives and conveyor belt drives of the copper mine to the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) Gro...

4 May 2006

New Evidence to Support Existence of "Stripes" in High-Temperature Superconductors

An international collaboration including two physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has published additional evidence to support the existence of "stripes" in high-te...

2 May 2006

Kobe Steel Plans 100 Billion Yen in Capital Expenditure This Fiscal Year

Kobe Steel, Ltd. plans capital investments of 110 billion yen in fiscal 2006, ending March 31, 2007, up 77% from the estimated 62 billion yen in fiscal 2005. Most of the investments will be in the Iron & Steel seg...

From Kobe Steel 27 Apr 2006

Evidence Published Supporting The Existence of Stripes in High Temperature Superconductors

An international collaboration including two physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has published additional evidence to support the existence of “stripes” in hig...

27 Apr 2006

Norilsk and Rio Tinto Set Up Exploration JV

Norilsk Nickel, Russia’s largest mining company, and Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining companies, today announced the creation of RioNor Exploration, a joint exploration and development company in Russia. R...

27 Apr 2006

Measurement of Photon Characteristics Provides Insight into Nuclear States

When atomic nuclei are smashed together at great speed, resulting temperatures exceed one trillion degrees, 200 million times hotter than the surface of the sun. Scientists who study nuclear matter under extreme conditio...

27 Apr 2006

Alcoa Open Packaging Plant in Bulgaria to Produce Foil and PVC Film

Alcoa announced today that it has opened a plant in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, to produce household wraps products, including foil, film and disposer bags. This is the first Alcoa facility in Bulgaria, making it the 43rd co...

27 Apr 2006

Ausmelt Signs Contract with Korea Zinc for a New Zinc Residue Smelter

Ausmelt Limited has signed a contract with Korea Zinc Co. Ltd (Korea Zinc) for the construction of two new Ausmelt technology furnaces at its zinc production facilities at Onsan in Korea. Korea Zinc already operates eigh...

26 Apr 2006

Ausmelt Secure Two Contracts in the Chinese Copper Industry

Ausmelt Limited has won two new major contracts in the Chinese copper industry. The technology, design and supply contracts will deliver additional revenue of more than $7.5 million over the next two years. Ausmelt ha...

20 Apr 2006

Novel Ceramic Material May Pave Way for New Designs of Electronic Devices and Applications

An international team led by UCL (University College London) scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology has unravelled the properties of a novel ceramic material that could help pave the way for new designs of el...

20 Apr 2006

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