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Materials Science Gets a Nitride Boost

Like modern day alchemists, materials scientists often turn unassuming substances into desirable ones. But instead of working metal into gold, they create strange new compounds that could make the electronic components o...

13 Mar 2006

American Superconductor Successfully Demonstrate Prototype Power Transformer in China

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, and China's Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) today announced that IEE has successfully demonstrated a prototype superconductor-base...

9 Mar 2006

Ausmelt Win Contract for Chinese Nickel Smelter

Ausmelt Limited has won a major contract to provide technology for a new nickel smelting plant to be built by Jilin Nickel Group (Jilin), China’s second largest nickel producer. The contract will deliver revenues t...

9 Mar 2006

Phelps Dodge Sells High Performance Conductor Business to International Wire Group

Phelps Dodge has announced that it has agreed to sell Phelps Dodge High Performance Conductors of SC & GA, Inc. (HPC) to International Wire Group (IWG). Under the agreement, IWG will purchase the stock of HPC, includ...

8 Mar 2006

Aluminum Overtakes Iron as Second Most Used Automotive Material

Global aluminum use in automotive applications continues to grow, according to a new report commissioned by The Aluminum Association, Inc., and when compared to use of other metals, aluminum has now exceeded iron to beco...

8 Mar 2006

Alcoa Announces Production Started on Alumar Aluminum Smelter Expansion in Brazil

Alcoa has announced that construction on the expansion of its Alumar smelter in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil, has been completed and start-up of full production has begun. The expansion will add 63,000 mtpy of aluminum, br...

8 Mar 2006

Enhancement of Superconductors Under Hydrostatic Pressure

Nobody completely understands superconductors. So fathom how James S. Schilling, Ph.D., led a team that makes the phenomenon work better. Schilling, a professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington Univers...

8 Mar 2006

Alcan to Spend $7m to Increase Amoured Cable Production Capacity

Alcan Inc. announced today that it will invest US$ 7 million in its Saint-Maurice facility to significantly increase the site’s hard alloy aluminum strip capacity for the construction and industrial markets. The im...

8 Mar 2006

Alcoa and Gov. of Iceland to Begin Feasibility Studies on a New 250,000 mtpy Renewable Energy-Powered Smelter in North Iceland

Alcoa and the Government of Iceland have agreed to begin detailed feasibility studies for the development of a 250,000 metric ton per year (mtpy) aluminum smelter based principally on geothermal energy, at Bakki near Hus...

6 Mar 2006

Archaeologist to Probe the True Value of Roman Silver Coins

An archaeologist at the University of Liverpool is examining more than 1,000 Roman silver coins from museums around the world in order to establish their true economic value. Dr Matthew Ponting, from the University&rs...

4 Mar 2006

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