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Sonoco’s Composite Containers Chosen by Mother Parkers for Coffee Packaging

Mother Parkers is converting its Brown Gold®, Martinson® and private label brands from metal coffee cans to Sonoco’s more environmentally responsible paperboard composite container.

3 Nov 2010

Dow Chemical to Establish New Business for Producing Advantaged Battery Materials

The Dow Chemical Company is utilizing its global leadership in material science, manufacturing expertise and market knowledge to organize a new business that will manufacture advantaged battery materials to address critical, unmet market needs in the energy storage industry.

From Dow Chemicals 3 Nov 2010

MVR Purchases Assets of Sustainable Packaging Service Provider

MVR, a manufacturer of high performance sustainable plastic resins, today announced the acquisition of the assets of NextLife™, a leading provider of sustainable solutions for the consumer packaged goods industry.

3 Nov 2010

Dow Coating Materials Introduces New Technologies for the Paint Industry

Dow Coating Materials (DCM), a global business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, announces a breakthrough series of products designed to significantly reduce paint customers’ dependence on a key raw material, Titanium Dioxide.

From Dow Corning 3 Nov 2010

Nano-C Secures EPA Clearance for Fullerene Derivative Production and Distribution

Nano-C, Inc. received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to manufacture and sell fullerenes and PCBM, a patented fullerene derivative commonly used in Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) and other applic...

3 Nov 2010

Researchers Discover New Crystal Material with Two Electronic Characteristics

A new material with a split personality -- part superconductor, part metal -- has been observed by a Princeton University-led research team. The discovery may have implications for the development of next-generation e...

3 Nov 2010

Research on Luminescence in Leaves Using Nanotechnology

Post-doctor Yen-Hsun Su of Research Center for Applied Science (RCAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan, a former student of Department of Physics at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) supervised by Prof. Wei-Min Zhang of Department of Physics and Assistant Prof. Shih-Hui Chang of Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Engineering, has discovered that gold nanoparticles can induce luminescence in leaves.

3 Nov 2010

New Guide for Asian Metals, Minerals and Steel Industries

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Asian Metals, Minerals & Steel Directory 2010" directory to their offering. The pace of change in the Asian metals, steel and minerals industry is...

3 Nov 2010

Contour Energy Systems Receives Patent for Breakthrough Technologies

Contour Energy Systems, Inc. an innovative portable power company commercializing next-generation battery systems, today announced the company has been awarded a new US patent for its proprietary Fluorinetic™ production process and fluorinated multi-layered carbon nanomaterials.

3 Nov 2010

Adoption of Nanotechnologies Can Reduce Energy Consumption in the U.S., Germany and Japan

The increasing consumption and diminishing reserves of fossil fuels will create significant issues for civilization, but energy efficiency can help mitigate the challenge – and advances in nanotechnology have a role to play.

3 Nov 2010

Lenze Americas Announces Product Advances in the Packaging Industry

Lenze Americas is pleased to announce product advances in the packaging industry. Lenze has been producing electronic and mechanical drives for over 60 years and continues to improve as the market demands. ...

3 Nov 2010

Coherent Adds a New Compact, Flexible Laser Machining Center to Its Lineup

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has expanded upon its family of compact, flexible Laser Machining Centers with the launch of its MetaBEAM™, designed for processing metals but capable of addressing non-metal processing as well.

2 Nov 2010

Strem to Market and Sell Nanospring Products from GoNano

GoNano Technologies gained a key partner with the signing of an agreement for marketing and sales of company's product portfolio with Massachusetts-based Strem Chemicals. Strem gained the right to market and sell GoNano’s Nanospring products to its customers.

From Strem Chemicals 2 Nov 2010

iSmithers Rapra Release New Book on Dendrimers

iSmithers Rapra Publishing has announced the release of another title in the Practical Guide series, Practical Guide to Studying Dendrimers.

From Smithers Rapra Technology Ltd 2 Nov 2010

Turnkey Solution for UHV Temperature Programmed Desorption Studies from Hiden

The new TPD Workstation from Hiden Analytical is a complete turnkey station for UHV temperature programmed desorption studies and is suited to both quality control and to research applications. Applicable technologies include photovoltaics, metallurgy and semiconductor and thin-film studies.

From Hiden Analytical 2 Nov 2010