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Creating Super Fast Skis

In ski sports, it’s often only a second that separates the winners from the losers. Using equipment made of the right materials can therefore make all the difference. Researchers are simulating the gliding effects that occur when skis travel over snow – and creating super fast skis.

11 Jan 2010

PPG's Fiber Glass Goving Products Approved for Use in Wind Turbine Blades

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has announced the certification of HYBON fiber glass roving products for wind turbine blades by Germanischer Lloyd (GL), a leading international certification body in the wind energy industry. ...

From PPG Industries Inc. 11 Jan 2010

HITCO to Produce Composite Wing and Nacelle Skins for Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighning II program

HITCO Carbon Composites, Inc., Gardena, California, U.S.A., a subsidiary of SGL Group - The Carbon Company - announced today that Lockheed Martin has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to award HITCO a contract to produce w...

11 Jan 2010

High Performance Polypropylene Replaces Steel in New High Pressure Water Cleaners

A high-performance polypropylene (PP) resin from LyondellBasell Industries has been selected for the production of a new series of industrial cleaning equipment by Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG, the world’s leading producer of cleaning equipment. Moplen EP240T is being used to produce the chassis of the company’s new midclass and high-end range of hot water high-pressure cleaners.

From LyondellBasell Industries 11 Jan 2010

Wacker Broadens Scope for International Training and Competence Centers

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, is expanding the curriculum of its international training & competence centers and will offer more interdisciplinary courses this year. The ongoing content-specific and strategic changes are reflected in the centers’ new name: the WACKER ACADEMY.

From Wacker Chemie AG 11 Jan 2010

Noliac Can Design Piezoelectric Actuators with a Gain of over 1mm and Force Exceeding 1500N

Noliac offers a design of lightweight, temperature stable and highly dynamic amplified piezoelectric actuators. The combinations of stroke and force are numerous; thus, the unique amplified actuator is offered as a custom product only designed for your specific needs.

11 Jan 2010

New Book on Smart Textile Coatings and Laminates

Smart textile coatings and laminates from Woodhead Publishing provides a stimulus for developing new and improved textile products. This important discussion opens with an overview of industry basics and current applications and progresses to consider likely future trends. The concept of interactions and heat and mass transfer are reviewed in the context of testing with attention also given to methods of characterisation.

11 Jan 2010

US Steel File Critical Circumstances Allegation Regarding Dumping of Chinese Pressure Pipe

United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X), along with other petitioning parties in ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations relating to seamless standard, line and pressure pipe from China, announced to...

7 Jan 2010

RPC to Help Develop New Packaging for Nivea Baby

Beiersdorf has chosen RPC Kutenholz as its partner for the development and supply of an enhanced version of its 500ml bottle for Nivea Baby.

7 Jan 2010

Siemens Continues to Expand into Industrial Dewatering Solutions Market

By acquiring the American company Industrial Process Machinery (IPM), Manchester, New Hampshire, Siemens is continuing to expand its dewatering solutions offering for industrial applications. As of December 31, 2009, IPM is part of Siemens Water Technologies, a Business Unit of the Siemens Industry Solutions Division.

7 Jan 2010

Solutia to Supply Heat Transfer Fluid for Spanish Solar Power Plant

Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) announced today that it will be supplying Therminol(R) VP-1 synthetic heat transfer fluid for Solnova 4, a new 50 MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Sevilla, Spain managed by Abener. Sol...

7 Jan 2010

Uhde Wins Contact for Hydrochloric Acid Electrolysis Plant

Uhde has been awarded an engineering and procurement contract for the construction of a hydrochloric acid electrolysis plant by Yantai Juli Isocyanate Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of polyurethane. The plant, with a p...

7 Jan 2010

Title for World's Highest Field resistive Magnet Returns to Florida State University

Physicists who do research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University got a brand new, high-tech toy for the holidays -a world-record magnet. Engineers and technicians in late Dece...

7 Jan 2010

Innovative Low Cost Solar Roof Research Wins Funding

In its seventh year, the program awarded $25,000 to Luis Alberto Juanicó and his team for a project the scientists designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels. They developed an innovative, low-cost solar roof with a sustainable heating and cooling system that offers practical, innovative advantages.

7 Jan 2010

DuPont Support Natural Aprpoach to Chemistry

DuPont is working with the Delaware Department of Education to launch a new chemistry curriculum for high schools next fall. A Natural Approach to Chemistry workshop recently introduced it to 60 high school chemistry teachers.

7 Jan 2010