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MFRI Receives $21 Million Orders for Auto-Therm GSPU Thermal Insulation

MFRI, Inc. (NASDAQ: MFRI), announced today that its Perma-Pipe subsidiary has received over $21 million in new orders for its Auto-Therm®, Glass Syntactic Polyurethane, (GSPU) thermal insulation. These new orders ...

3 Dec 2010

GT Solar Wins $84 Million Orders for Sapphire Crystallization Systems

GT Solar International, Inc. a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets, today announced that it has received its first two orders totaling more than $84 million for sapphire crystallization systems.

3 Dec 2010

Fujifilm Gains Full Operation Control over A CMP Slurry Manufacturer

FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) has acquired, through its semiconductor material manufacturing and marketing subsidiary FUJIFILM Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc., 50% membership interests in dedicated CMP slurry manufacturer Planar Solutions, LLC (Headquartered in Michigan, U.S.; “Planar” hereinafter), held by Wacker Chemical Corporation (Headquartered in Munich, Germany; “Wacker” hereinafter).

3 Dec 2010

GlobalData Announces New Report on Russian Polyethylene Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Polyethylene Industry Outlook in Russia to 2015 - Market Size, Company Share, Price Trends, Capacity Forecasts of All Active and...

From Report Linker 3 Dec 2010

Evraz Group to Build Rolling Mills in Southern Russia and Kazakhstan

Evraz Group (“Evraz” or the “Group”) announces that its Board of Directors has approved investment in both the Yuzhny Rolling Mill in the Rostov Region of Southern Russia and the Kostanay Rolling Mill in Kazakhstan.

3 Dec 2010

ThyssenKrupp Nirosta Transfers Production to Krefeld Plant from Benrath Plant

Under its forward strategy ThyssenKrupp Nirosta is working extensively to maintain its international competitiveness. Among other things the strategy calls for the development and optimization of the company’s p...

3 Dec 2010

Alcoa Honored at International CEO Roundtable Conference in China

Alcoa announced that it received the inaugural “Multinational Company with Contribution to Public Welfare in China” award for its corporate social responsibility achievements and commitment to China’s public welfare.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 3 Dec 2010

Researchers Develop New Process to Improve Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells

Researchers from Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory have developed a process capable of producing a thin and uniform light-absorbing layer on textured substrates that improves the efficiency of polymer solar cells by increasing light absorption.

3 Dec 2010

New Inexpensive Nano-Filtering Technology for Clean Drinking Water

With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills up to 98 percent of dis...

3 Dec 2010

MU Researchers Create New Drug Development Company for Cancer Treatment

University of Missouri leaders celebrated a nanomedicine milestone today as they announced the creation of a new drug development company. The new company forms a partnership between university researchers and an inte...

3 Dec 2010

Materials Research Society Honors Georgia Tech Professor for Outstanding Contribution

The Materials Research Society awarded Walter A. de Heer, professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the MRS Medal at its annual fall meeting in Boston today.

3 Dec 2010

New EU Research Report on Plastics and Plastics Articles Market

Market Publishers Ltd announces that new EU markets research reports have been recently added to European Union Market Reports Package 2010. European Union Market Reports Package 2010 has been complemented with Plast...

3 Dec 2010

New Method to Produce Nano Zinc Oxide

During the normal grinding of powders in a mortar, the powders can enter into chemical reactions with each other. This phenomenon has been known for years but only now it has become possible to transform in this way three-dimensional clusters of certain chemical compounds into other, also three-dimensional, clusters.

3 Dec 2010

China Sun Group to Deliver 470 Tons of Lithium Iron Phosphate to Henan Huanyu Power Source

China Sun Group High-Tech Co. (OTC Bulletin Board: CSGH) ("China Sun Group" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated supplier of raw materials for rechargeable Lithium–ion (Li-ion) batteries i...

3 Dec 2010

Summit Materials Acquires RK Hall Construction

Summit Materials, LLC (Summit), a building materials company, today announced that it has concluded the acquisition of RK Hall Construction, Ltd, Buster Crushed Stone and associated companies (collectively “RK Hall...

3 Dec 2010