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High Purity BASF Chemicals Help Microchip Manufacturers

Modern computers have little room to spare, with as many as a billion transistors per square centimeter jostling for position on their processors and memory chips. Imagine the entire population of India holidaying in W...

11 Feb 2005

Arcelor Agree to Sell Techalloy to Central Wire

Arcelor has signed an agreement with Central Wire for the sale of Techalloy Company, Inc. shares. Techalloy Company, Inc., owned by Arcelor through its Ugitech S.A. subsidiary, is a U.S. based company with its head of...

11 Feb 2005

Nano-Proprietary and Shimane Institute For Industrial Technology to Jointly Develop Aluminum Alloys With Improved Thermal Conductivity

Nano-Proprietary and Shimane Institute collaborate on innovative aluminum alloy development, leveraging carbon nanotubes for enhanced thermal properties.

10 Feb 2005

SUAL to Build New Non-Stick Aluminium Kitchenware Plant

SUAL Group is to construct a new ScovO plant for the production of aluminium non-stick kitchenware in Stupino (Moscow region). The production is expected to be launched at the beginning of the next year. The project is...

9 Feb 2005

Fraunhofer USA Transfer Metal Foam Technology to Alulight

Fraunhofer USA, Inc. has transferred its metal-foam technology to Alulight of America, L.P.Developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Materials Research (IFAM) in Bremen, Germany and the Fraunhofer USA Center for ...

1 Feb 2005

Dynatec Receive $5m Payment for Licencing Metallurgical Technology

Dynatec Corporation today announced that the Company’s Metallurgical Technologies Division has received from Minara Resources Limited, Glenmurrin Pty Ltd and related companies a final license payment of US$5.0 m...

1 Feb 2005

Precision Castparts Buys Aerospace Fastener Business for $190m

Precision Castparts Corp. has entered into definitive agreements to acquire the shares of Air Industries Corporation (AIC) and the assets of Air Tuf Products, Inc. for $194.0 million in cash. Founded in 1951, privatel...

28 Jan 2005

Showa Denko Sells Shares in Nippon Amazon Aluminium

Showa Denko K.K. (TSE: 4004) announces the sale of its shares in Nippon Amazon Aluminium Co., Ltd. (NAAC) to Mitsui & Co., Ltd. The sale was approved by NAAC at its board of directors' meeting on January 14 and c...

25 Jan 2005

Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements Reveal a New Form of Chemistry

A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens the door to using &#39...

17 Jan 2005

Floating Films on Liquid Mercury May Lead to Advances in Nanotechnology, Molecular Electronics

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin films of organic chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and...

17 Jan 2005

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