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mPhase Technologies to Participate in NanoBusiness Alliance Roundtable

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: XDSL), the global leader in the development of nanotech-based reserve battery technology, today announced that its executives will attend the Ninth Annual NanoBusiness Alliance Washingto...

15 Mar 2010

PPG Automotive Refinishing Helps U Bobsled team Win Gold

PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) automotive refinish business is pleased to congratulate the U.S. Olympic four-man bobsled team on winning the gold medal during the Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The victory, achieved in the PPG-painted Bo-Dyn Night Train bobsled, was the first four-man bobsled Olympic gold medal the United States has won since the 1948 games.

From PPG Industries Inc. 15 Mar 2010

Developments in Pipeline Coatings

The economic crisis has affected pipeline construction as with many other industries, because of the lack of availability of finance for new projects, and because of the drop in oil and gas prices. However, oil prices ar...

15 Mar 2010

Quick and Easy Semi Quantitative Atomic Absorption Measurements Possible with ContrAA

The ContrAA series of high resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrophotometers from Analytik Jena UK allow semi-quantitative measurements to be made quickly and easily. The availability of all atomic absorpt...

15 Mar 2010

Materials Scientists Harvest Small Amounts of Energy and Convert it into Usable Hydrogen

Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel. The process is simple, efficient and ...

15 Mar 2010

Linde Team Up to Develop Packaging Solutions for Flexible Displays

The technology group, The Linde Group, and leading Chinese engineering university, Shanghai University, announce today their partnership to explore and develop new advanced packaging solutions for flexible displays to en...

From Linde plc 15 Mar 2010

CPFilms Introduce New Window Tinting Film with Improved UV Absorption and Heat Rejection

CPFilms Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), and the world's leading producer of professional window films for automotive, residential and commercial markets, proudly introduces its newest aut...

15 Mar 2010

Siemens to Supply Five Strand Comb-Caster to Chinese Steelworks

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies will supply a five-strand combi-caster to Handan Steel Works, part of Handan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., China. The new plant will be capable of producing a total of 1.45 million tons of beam blanks and blooms per year and is scheduled commence production operations in the summer of 2011.

From Primetals Technologies Limited 15 Mar 2010

Linde to Consolidate Customer Services Operations of Electronics and Specialty Gases

The Electronics and Specialty Gases business of Linde North America will consolidate its customer services operations in a state-of-the-art facility in Stewartsville, New Jersey, beginning 12 March 2010. Linde North ...

15 Mar 2010

PartTec to Manufacture Neutron Detector Systems Developed by ORNL

PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Nationa...

15 Mar 2010

BOC Pakistan to get State-of-the-Art Air Separation Plant

The Board of Directors of BOC Pakistan Limited, a member of The Linde Group, on 11 March 2010 approved an investment of more than Rs. 2 billion (EUR 17 million) for the installation of a new state-of-the-art air separati...

From Linde plc 15 Mar 2010

Discovery Could Lead to New Kinds of Biodegradable, Biocompatible Polymers

In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to significantly increase the ability to recycle and reuse common PET and plant-based plastics in the future.

15 Mar 2010

Organic and Printed Electronics Association Celebrates 5th Anniversary

"With its 135 members all over the world, the OE-A has become a highly dynamic and constantly growing network of leading international companies and institutes in the past five years”, said Wolfgang Mildner, Chairman of the OE-A and Managing Director, PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary celebration of the OE-A – the industry association for organic and printed electronics.

12 Mar 2010

Value of Nanotechnology in Coatings and Adhesives Market Expected to be Worth $3.7 Billion in 2010

According to a new technical market research report, NANOTECHNOLOGY IN COATINGS AND ADHESIVE APPLICATIONS: GLOBAL MARKETS from BCC Research, the global market value for nanotechnology in coatings and adhesives is an estimated $3.7 billion in 2010, but is expected to increase to nearly $19.2 billion in 2015.

12 Mar 2010

OLEDs Feature Prominantly at the OSRAM Stand at Light + Building

An impressive OLED installation by the lighting planners of ‘LichtKunstLicht’ is the main attraction on the OSRAM stand at the Light + Building show in Frankfurt from 11 to 16 April 2010. Design objects and luminaires use actual examples to show the range of wafer thin light sources with various colors and shapes.

From Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 12 Mar 2010