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Recticel to Restructure Activities to Improve Competitiveness

Recticel today notified the works council of the Wetteren plant (Belgium) that it plans to restructure a number of activities. Interior Solutions (Automotive) has been particularly hard hit by the structural problems...

17 Nov 2009

New Company to Commercialize Large Area Screen Printed Electronics

The nanoelectronics research center IMEC, Hasselt University and the Belgian screen printing company Artist Screen announce the start of their spin-off Lumoza NV. The new company develops and commercializes large area sc...

17 Nov 2009

Novel Technique Makes Analyzing Complex Mixtures Simple

The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze complex solutions containing particulates or other contaminating materials often find that the first part of the process isn't so easy.

17 Nov 2009

Researchers Develop New Source of Entangled Photons Using Quantum Dots and Lasers

To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement-the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even when they are completely shielded from one another. Now,...

17 Nov 2009

Graphene - The Hottest New Material in Physics

First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made o...

17 Nov 2009

Swansea University is to Take Delivery of the UK's Most Versatile Electron Microscope

Swansea University is to take delivery of the UK's most versatile electron microscope. Scientists will be able to magnify objects 800,000 times to devise new treatments for cancer and other life-changing technologies...

17 Nov 2009

Rice Researchers Create Bose Einstein Condensate of Strontium Atoms

Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie. The Rice lab of physicist Tom Killian...

17 Nov 2009

Olympus are Hosting Tech Tours on Materials Research

Olympus America's Tech Tours program is coming to the University of Alabama-Huntsville this week. Tech Tours is a series of educational events where researchers and engineers interactively learn from leading experts ...

17 Nov 2009

Stork Now Has a Certified NFRC Certified Similator for Fenestration Lab

Stork TCT is proud to announce Fenestration Laboratory Manager Brian Amberg's new status as a Certified Simulator as authorized by the National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC).

From Element Materials Technology 17 Nov 2009

ASM International Working to Develop Industry Certified Thermal Spray Certification Program

ASM International, the technical and educational society for materials science and engineering, is working closely with the ASM Thermal Spray Society (TSS) to develop the thermal spray industry's first certification ...

From ASM International 17 Nov 2009

Shell Chemicals Starts Up World-Scale Monoethylene Glycol (MEG) Unit

Shell Chemicals Limited has announced the successful start-up of its new world-scale monoethylene glycol (MEG) unit at the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex in Singapore. The unit started up as initially planned. ...

17 Nov 2009

Next NPE International Plastics Exposition Scheduled for April 2012 in Orlando, Florida

NPE2012, the next edition of the triennial NPE international plastics exposition, will take place April 1-5, 2012 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, it was announced today by SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association.

17 Nov 2009

American Superconductor to Supply $10m Worth of Wind Turbine Parts to China

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global power technologies company, today announced that it has received a follow-on order for $10 million worth of wind turbine core electrical components from China&...

From American Superconductor 17 Nov 2009

Expanded Polystyrene Provides Thermal Insulation for Back-Ventilated Curtain Facades

Back-ventilated curtain facades extending to the high-rise building limit can now be efficiently thermally insulated with expandable polystyrene (EPS). This innovation became possible thanks to insulation materials made from Neopor®, the EPS from BASF.

From BASF Corporation 17 Nov 2009

Hydro's Aluminium Building System to Deliver Energy Efficient Solution for Spiegel

Hydro's Wicona brand is going to deliver energy-saving aluminium building systems for Spiegel Group's new headquarters in Hamburg. This is a prestigious project that will change the look of the city and its harbor area.

From Hydro - Aluminium Alloys and Products 17 Nov 2009