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5N Plus Sign MOU for Long Term Supply Contract with Teck Metals

5N Plus Inc. ("5N") (TSX:VNP), a developer and producer of high-purity metals and compounds for electronic applications is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") ...

From 5N Plus 2 Dec 2009

5N Plus Broadens Product Offerings to Semiconductor Market with Acquisition

5N Plus Inc. ("5N") (TSX:VNP), a developer and producer of high-purity metals and compounds for electronic applications announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Firebird Technologies Inc. (&quot...

From 5N Plus 2 Dec 2009

Packaging Community Moves towards More Environmentally Friendly Products

The Packaging Community has undertaken a survey into decision making in packaging across 9 European countries and concluded that there is a big move towards environmentally-friendly and sustainable products. This is part...

From SABIC Innovative Plastics 2 Dec 2009

Hydro Takes Action to Remain Competitive Despite Weak Aluminium Market

Hydro is intensifying efforts to improve its competitive position by launching new cost-reduction measures, following a year of demanding markets and decisive corrective actions. Hydro’s improvement efforts have resulted in positive downstream earnings, while upstream activities remain challenged by the weak aluminium market and a strong Norwegian krone.

From Hydro - Aluminium Alloys and Products 2 Dec 2009

Hydro to Sell Spanish Rolling Mill

Hydro has entered into an agreement to divest its aluminium rolling mill in Irurtzun, Spain, to the German industrial holding company Bavaria Industriekapital AG.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 2 Dec 2009

Tiny Particles to Take on the Energy Storage Industry

In leading the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's first technology spin-off, Charles Gibson, an inorganic chemistry professor, hopes to make a big impact on the energy storage industry with the tiniest of particles.

1 Dec 2009

Oxford Instruments Collaborate with Neutron Scattering Facilities to Deliver First High Field Helium Recondensing Magnets

Oxford Instruments has collaborated with two World-class neutron scattering facilities, the ISIS Neutron Source (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot) and the ILL neutron facility (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble...

From Oxford Instruments 1 Dec 2009

Rio Tinto Complete Sale of Alcan Composites

Further to the announcement of 22 September, Rio Tinto has completed the sale of Alcan Composites, part of the Alcan Engineered Products division, to Schweiter Technologies for a total consideration of US$349 million. ...

1 Dec 2009

UPM Supplies Environmentally Friendly Paper for UN Climate Change Conference

UPM will supply roughly nine million sheets of copy paper in cooperation with office supplies company Lyreco to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009. Future from UPM's Docell...

1 Dec 2009

Revolutionary Product for the Identification of New Separation Materials

MIP Technologies AB announces today the launch of a revolutionary discovery toolbox for identification of new separation materials, ExploraSep4Process. The product consists of 130 different molecularly imprinted polymers...

1 Dec 2009

LyondellBasell to Shutdown Propylene Line in Germany

LyondellBasell announced today that it will shut down one polypropylene (PP) line in Wesseling, Germany, by the end of 2009. As a result, PP capacity at the site will be reduced by 110KT. "We have concluded that...

From LyondellBasell Industries 1 Dec 2009

MSL Launch New Reactors to Deal with Hazardous Metal Working Fluids

Microbial Solutions Ltd (MSL), an Oxfordshire company that has developed award-winning ecologically friendly bacterial technologies to dispose of metal working fluids, has launched two new bioreactors. Made to an innovat...

1 Dec 2009

Germany's National Metrology Institute Chooses Olympus LEXT to Help Check Specifications of Standards

The Olympus LEXT OLS4000 has been chosen by Germany’s national metrology institute, the PTB, for use in a joint project that aims to develop an assistance system for confocal and interferential microscope users. As an advanced example of the instrumentation that the “Optassyst” project focuses on, the LEXT OLS4000 will help to provide measurements to check the specifications of standards and measurement procedures.

1 Dec 2009

In Line Particle Size Analysis Just Got Simpler Thanks to Malvern

The new ‘Pharma option 3: Parsum View’ user interface for the Parsum IPP 70 in-line particle size measurement probe, available from Malvern Panalytical, simplifies the system’s use as a PAT (Process Analytical Technology) tool for continuous monitoring of granulation, spray drying and fluidised bed operations, for example.

From Malvern Panalytical 1 Dec 2009

3M and TAZMO Sign Agreement for the Manufacture and Sale of Equipment for Temporary Bonding of Ultrathin Semiconductor Wafers

3M, a leading supplier of advanced materials to the semiconductor industry, and TAZMO CO., LTD, a leading supplier of semiconductor and LCD manufacturing equipment, today announced an agreement to allow TAZMO to manufact...

1 Dec 2009