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Boca Bearings Takes on Lubrication Market

Leading ball bearing supplier, Boca Bearings, is putting a new line of lubricants and coatings at the heart of its plans to become a respected name in industrial lubrication markets. After 20 years of success as an innovative supplier of specialty ceramic bearing products, Boca Bearings is now targeting industrial lubrication with a full range of Oils, Greases, Coatings and Solid Lube.

12 Mar 2010

Chemical Processing Webinar will Focus on Condition Monitoring Solutions

Chemical Processing today announced a new Webinar that will bring leading chemical-industry experts together to discuss condition monitoring solutions in an informative exchange that will include Webinar attendees. Opera...

12 Mar 2010

Compliant Systems - Materials that Change Shape and Bend without Needing Joints

Flavio Campanile, head of a research group in Empa’s Mechanics for Modeling and Simulation Laboratory, is convinced that aircraft can be made which move more elegantly and, above all, more economically through the air. “Sooner or later it will be possible to make wings without ailerons, flaps and thousands of individual parts. They will have in principle only one component, which continually changes shape.”

12 Mar 2010

Push to Commercialise Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies in Denmark

Danish industrial players have expressed a strong need for support in the process to push fuel cell and hydrogen technologies from the research and development stage into the commercial domain. Risø DTU has now with...

12 Mar 2010

Rexam Beverage Can Plant Plays Major Role in Aluminium Can Recycling Efforts

Rexam's North American beverage can (BCNA) plants are playing a leading role in local community aluminium can recycling efforts. By teaming with their local communities, the BCNA network collected a total of nearly 3...

12 Mar 2010

Stork Provide Free Seminars on Corrosion Failure Analysis and Fatigue Testing

Principal Engineers Craig Brown and Phil Dindinger of Stork Technimet in New Berlin, Wisconsin, are presenting two free, live seminars, " Corrosion Failure Analysis" and "Fundamentals of Fatigue Testing &q...

From Element Materials Technology 12 Mar 2010

Custom-Bilt Metals Joins PPG's Certified Metal Panel Program

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) announced that Custom-Bilt Metals, Chino, Calif., has joined the PPG Certified Metal Panel Program (PPG/CMPP). PPG/CMPP is a certification program administered by the PPG coil and extrusion ...

From PPG Industries Inc. 12 Mar 2010

New Concept for OLEDs Uses Graphene as the Transparent Conductor

Researchers at Stanford University have successfully developed a brand new concept of organic lighting-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with a few nanometers of graphene as transparent conductor.

12 Mar 2010

Porvair Sciences Catalogue Includes Many Polystyrene and Polypropylene Products

The Porvair Sciences Product Catalogue for 2010 is packed with vital information on the company's wide range of microplates, plate sealers and microplate evaporators to help you get the best from your separations, as...

From Porvair Filtration Group 11 Mar 2010

Manufacturer of High Performance Sintered Porous Plastic Materials Opens Class 100000 Clean Room Facility

Porvair Filtration Group, a leading developer and manufacturer of novel, high performance sintered porous plastic materials and products for life science applications, has opened a new Class 100000 (ISO Class 8) clean room facility at its Wrexham, UK site.

From Porvair Filtration Group 11 Mar 2010

Graphene TEM Support Films Available from Electron Microscopy Sciences

Electron Microscopy Sciences, the leading provider of supplies and equipment for microscopy, announced the addition of graphene transmission electron microscope support films to its product line. The new graphene support...

10 Mar 2010

Micromeritics Release New Isotherm Data for Characterizing Porous Carbons

In April 1993, Micromeritics introduced DFT V1.00, the first commercially available software package offering a practical method to routinely analyze experimental adsorption isotherms using methods based on modern theore...

From Micromeritics Instrument Corporation 10 Mar 2010

Veeco Introduce the Dimension Edge AFM System

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force microscopy technology to the nanoscience community, announced today the Dimension(R) Edge(TM) Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) System for physical and life sciences investigation.

From Veeco 10 Mar 2010

Thomas Swan Now Producing Commercial Quantities of Carbon Nanotubes in the US

Leading manufacturer of carbon nanotubes Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. has achieved commercial scale production to meet growing demand in the USA. This success has been marked by the company's announcement that it has i...

10 Mar 2010

Second Boeing 787 Dreamliner Takes to the Air Outside of Washington

The second Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner, ZA002, landed at 10:53 a.m. local time today in Victorville, Calif. This marks the beginning of the first flight-test operations outside of Washington state for the program. ...

10 Mar 2010