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BMW's Most Powerful Motorcycle gets Polyamide Airbox with Electrically Adjustable Runner Lengths

The sportiest and most powerful motorcycle from BMW, the new S 1000 RR, draws its combustion air from an intake system with a built-in air filter function made from Ultramid® B3WGM24 HP, an extremely dimensionally stable polyamide (PA) from BASF. In motorcycle design, this component is called an airbox. For this high-performance motorcycle, the Stuttgart and Öhringen facilities of MAHLE (Germany) developed and manufactured the first airbox with an electrically adjustable runner length.

From BASF Corporation 3 Mar 2010

Linde Open Helium Production Plant in Australia

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced the official opening of its helium production plant in Australia. The plant, located in Darwin in the Northern Territory, is not only the first helium productio...

From Linde plc 3 Mar 2010

DuPont Launches New Family of Nylon Materials for Automotive Under-Hood Applications

DuPont recently announced the launch of a new family of products – DuPont™ Zytel® PLUS nylon – that can significantly extend the performance life of automotive under-the-hood components, enabling further replacement of metals with high-performance plastics for lightweighting of vehicles.

3 Mar 2010

DuPont Vespel Gains Recognition under ISO and API Standards

Long valued for their performance in wear rings and other parts of centrifugal pumps at oil refineries, DuPont™ Vespel® CR-6100 parts have recently gained recognition under the ISO 13709 International Standard and the American Petroleum Institute’s API 610 Standard.

3 Mar 2010

Alcoa Sign Long Term Power Contracts for Australian Aluminum Smelters

Alcoa of Australia Limited and Loy Yang Power today announced new base-load electricity contracts to power Alcoa's aluminum smelter at Point Henry, Geelong, and the Portland aluminum smelter to 2036. The contract...

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 3 Mar 2010

LogiChem 2010 Bolsters Speaker Line Up with 3 Big Names

LogiChem 2010 is proud to announce the addition of three prominent chemical experts to the outstanding speaker line-up: Arno Bingemann, Global Director Supply Chain Planning Processes, BASF Robert Peels, Strateg...

From LyondellBasell Industries 2 Mar 2010

PerkinElmer Unveil New ICP-MS System for Elemental Analysis at PITTCON

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of the NexION™ 300 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) for elemental analysis at PITTCON® 2010, March 1-4, 2010, Booth 2769.

2 Mar 2010

Airgas Unveil New Range of Remote Gas Monitoring Systems at Pittcon

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), the largest U.S. distributor of specialty gases and equipment, unveiled its new line of remote gas monitoring systems for laboratory gases at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry an...

From Linde plc 2 Mar 2010

Airgas Introduce New Line of Specialty Gas Regulators at Pittcon

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), the largest U.S. distributor of specialty gases and equipment, today introduced its new line of analytical specialty gas regulators designed especially for gas chromatography at the 61st Pittsbu...

From Linde plc 2 Mar 2010

Coperion STS Extruder Now Produces 20 per cent Higher Throughput

Well in time for Chinaplas (Shanghai, 19th to 22nd April 2010), Coperion has increased the specific torque of its STS advanced compounding extruder by 15% to 10 Nm/cm³. Thanks to this increase in torque, standard tw...

2 Mar 2010

Arkema Partners with EuroBioRef and BIOCORE Projects

With its long-standing experience in the processing of vegetable raw materials, Arkema now partners the EuroBioRef (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing) and BIOCORE (Bioco...

2 Mar 2010

New Hydrogen Sensor from NTM Sensors

NTM Sensors, a newly created division of NexTech Materials, Ltd., is pleased to announce a new hydrogen sensor, SenseH2™. With the tag line "We sense a GREEN future" NTM Sensors intends to introduce sever...

From Nexceris 2 Mar 2010

Wyatt Launch Instrument to Measure Macromolecular Mobilities at Pittcon

Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, announces the launch of its Möbiuζ™ mobility instrument on booth #972 at Pittcon 2010, being held February 28 -March 5, in Orlando.

1 Mar 2010

ShengdaTech Producing Nano-Precipitated Calcium Carbonate at Maximum Capacity

ShengdaTech, Inc. ("ShengdaTech" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:SDTH), the leading manufacturer of nano-precipitated calcium carbonate ("NPCC") in China, today announced that the first phase of t...

1 Mar 2010

Rio Tinto's Divestments Top US$10 Billion

Rio Tinto's divestment programme has passed the US$10 billion mark with the completion of the sale of its Alcan Packaging Food Americas division to Bemis Company, Inc for a total all cash consideration of US$1.2 bill...

From Amcor PLC 1 Mar 2010