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Patent-Pending Insulsorb Material Helps to Reduce Ecological Damage from Gulf Oil Spill

A Philadelphia-area inventor is conferring with distributors and cleanup specialists to supply them with InsulSorb© materials, a product designed to minimize ecological damage to the Gulf waters and wetlands that utilizes loose fiberglass wool from CertainTeed Corporation.

25 May 2010

DSM VP Honoured for Innovation and Advancement of Performance Materials

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, is pleased to announce today that Robert Kirschbaum, Vice President Open Innovation at DSM, has been awarded the Giulio Natta Award 2010 in recognition of his contributions to innovation and the advancement of performance materials during an illustrious career spanning several decades in the chemical industry.

25 May 2010

Tests Prove Building with Straw as Safe and Durable

Recent tests on the BaleHaus@Bath, a low carbon house made of straw bale panels at the University of Bath, have confirmed it is more than strong enough to withstand hurricane force winds and turns the children’s fairytale of the three pigs on its head.

25 May 2010

Tailored Package Helps US SME's Increase Their Exports

RL Consulting together with Export Marketing Strategy.com announces the introduction of the Export Business Development, EBD package for small to medium sized US businesses in the materials field.

24 May 2010

New Library of Synthetic Biomaterials Prepared

An international collaboration led by chemists and engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has prepared a library of synthetic biomaterials that mimic cellular membranes.

24 May 2010

Kuraray Subsidiary in Singapore Expands Sales Office

Kuraray Co., Ltd. today announces that Kuraray Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.—a Kuraray subsidiary in Singapore functioning as an Asia-Pacific hub to oversee the Kuraray Group's regional activities—has expanded its sales office to strengthen business functions.

24 May 2010

DSM Unveils World’s First 100% Colored UHMWPE Fiber Material for Surgeons

DSM, which created and manufactures Dyneema Purity®, the world’s strongest Medical grade fiber, today announced the availability of Dyneema Purity® BLUE, the first 100% colored implantable grade Ultra High Molecular...

24 May 2010

First GPCA Plastics Summit to be Held from June 14 to 16, 2010

The Middle East will be a leading producer and exporter of plastic resins within the next five years, with polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) capacity in the region slated to more than double by 2015. ...

24 May 2010

New Worldwide Research Report on MTBE Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p0197208/Global-Methyl-Tert-Butyl-Ether-MTBE-ind...

From Report Linker 24 May 2010

Lantheus Receives Additional Supply of Mo-99 Material

Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, today announced that it has received additional supply of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) to produce vital medical isotopes for its TechneLite® (Technetium Tc99m Generator) generators as the result of a recent agreement between the Institute for Radioelements (IRE), Fleurus, Belgium, and the Nuclear Research Institute (NRI), Rez, Czech Republic.

24 May 2010

Kaymont Places Order for AlumiFuel Cartridges

Early production stage hydrogen generation company AlumiFuel Power, Inc. announced today that it has received the first Purchase Order for AlumiFuel cartridges for its Portable Balloon Inflation System (PBIS)-1000 portable hydrogen generator.

24 May 2010

Kraton Expands its Line of Polymers Used for ASC Applications

Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc., a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers or “SBC’s” (together with Kraton Polymers LLC and its other subsidiaries “Kraton”), announced the addition of DX405 to its product line of polymers for adhesives, sealants, and coatings (ASC) applications.

24 May 2010

TenCate’s Subsidiary Pioneers Use of Composite Materials in Latest Inkjet Modules

TenCate subsidiary Xennia Technology is pioneering the use of composite materials made by TenCate Aerospace Composites in its latest designs of inkjet printing systems.

From Toray Advanced Composites 24 May 2010

ThyssenKrupp Acquires Austria-Based Flame Cutting Company

With effect from April 30, 2010 the ThyssenKrupp Group has bought all shares of Techno-Stahl Stahlgroßhandel und Brennschneidbetrieb GmbH, Vienna (Austria). The new acquisition is a flame cutting company with great technical expertise in the area of processed flat products. Its core business is the production of sheet metal and slab blanks by thermal cutting. It has been agreed that the purchase price will not be disclosed.

24 May 2010