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Americas Watchdog's Homeowners Consumer Center Takes Chinese Dry Walling Investigation National

Because of consumer horror stories, Americas Watchdog's Homeowners Consumer
Center is expanding its Florida investigation of possibly toxic Chinese imported
Chinese dry wall, used in Florida, into a national investigation of all new
homes built in 2005 and 2006, that may also have the imported Chinese dry wall.

2 Feb 2009

Report Predicts EU Steel Prices to Continue to Drop over The Next Few Months

Alloy surcharges charged by most stainless steel mills in the EU will decline over the March/April period. This will be the result of lower ferro-chrome contract prices. We estimate that the figures used by the majority ...

2 Feb 2009

Stanford Write with Sub-Atomic Particles and Reclaim Record

Stanford researchers
have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world's smallest writing, a
distinction the university first gained in 1985 and lost in 1990.

1 Feb 2009

Rio Tinto to Sell Off Potash Assets and Iron Ore Mine

Rio Tinto has signed definitive agreements to sell its undeveloped potash assets, largely comprising the Potasio Rio Colorado (PRC) potash project in Argentina, and its Corumbá iron ore mine in Brazil and the associated ...

1 Feb 2009

Dow Corning Bestows Distributor of the Year Award on Krayden

Dow
Corning Americas Electronics Channel Team is pleased to announce Krayden,
Inc. is the recipient of the Distributor of the Year Award and GOLD level status
for 2008. This is the third year (since program inception) that Krayden has
earned GOLD level performance.

From Dow Corning 1 Feb 2009

Alcoa and Aluminum Featured on Discovery Channel Program

When Discovery Channel wanted to better understand aluminum, one of the world’s
most recyclable materials, for its new television series, “How Stuff Works,”
they came to Alcoa.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 1 Feb 2009

Paint that Changes Colour on Demand

Want to show support for your favorite team? What if you could change the color of your car to black and gold (or red and white) in seconds? $$IMAGE$$ Scientists have developed a paramagnetic paint that can change...

From ASM International 30 Jan 2009

Alcoa Named One of the Most Sustainable Corporations in the World

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it was named as one of the most sustainable corporations in the world in the fifth annual Global 100 ranking of the top role models in sustainable business practices, during the World...

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 29 Jan 2009

Nanomagnets May be the Future for Data Storage

Physicists were able to generate magnetic areas
which promise to overcome the obstacles of today's data storage technology.
Using a highly focused ion beam, i.e. fast charged atoms, they irradiated an
iron-aluminum alloy in such a way that only the treated zones became ferromagnetic.

29 Jan 2009

New Sputtering Process Deposites Complex Films at Faster Rates

In the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions – atoms with a positive charge – to knock the metal atoms off a target. Scientists a...

28 Jan 2009

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