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Tenova to Supply Rotary Furnace and Heat Treating Line to ArcelorMittal Pipe Mill JV

On October 29th 2009, Tenova through its Business Unit Tenova LOI Italimpianti won an important order for the Arcelor Mittal Tubular Products Jubail, in al Jubail Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a seamless pipe mill. The ...

12 Nov 2009

ArcelorMittal Take Almost Full Control of Czech Steel Maker

ArcelorMittal announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire a 13.881% stake in ArcelorMittal Ostrava, a.s. from a subsidiary of PPF GROUP N.V., an international financial and investment group in Central and Easter...

12 Nov 2009

Preparation under Way to Heat Fusion Reactor to Millions of Degrees

Preparations at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching near Munich for the system that is to heat the plasma of the ITER international fusion test reactor to many million degrees have entered a new rou...

12 Nov 2009

Research into Metamaterials for Invisibility Cloaking Nets £4.9 Million Funding Boost

Research into designing and building unique 'metamaterials' has received a £4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust, it is announced today. Metamaterials can be used for invisibility 'cloaki...

12 Nov 2009

Semiconductor Manufacturers Team Up to Deal with Silicon Chips

Designers of high-speed silicon chips have often had to compromise on performance levels for their integrated circuit designs because of physical weaknesses appearing during design verification or even in production. Thi...

12 Nov 2009

New TPE Wire and Cable Products Combine Flare Retardance and RoHS Compliance

A new series of Elexar® thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounds for wire and cable and molded products provides a combination of RoHS compliance, UL-V0 flame retardance, and excellent performance over a wide range of end use conditions, it was announced today by the Thermoplastic Elastomer Division of Teknor Apex Company.

From Teknor Apex 12 Nov 2009

The Search is on for Improved Pressure Suit Gloves for Astronauts

Reporters and the public are invited to attend the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge on Nov. 19 at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., near NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The $400,000 prize challenge is a ...

12 Nov 2009

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Licenses Carbon Nanotube Desalination Technology

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid based separations. Carb...

12 Nov 2009

Measuring the Electrical Current Flowing between Two Buckyballs

The performance of modern electronics increases steadily on a fast pace thanks to the ongoing miniaturization of the utilized components. However, severe problems arise due to quantum mechanical phenomena when conventional structures are simply made smaller and reach the nanometer scale. Therefore current research focuses on the socalled bottomup approach: the engineering of functional structures with the smallest possible building blocks single atoms and molecules.

12 Nov 2009

Photosynthesis May be the Way to Produce Clean, Sustainable Hydrogen

In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-energy process that outweighs the benefits of not using petroleum to power vehicles.

12 Nov 2009

Novel Nanomaterials to Head into Orbit on Space Shuttle

Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.

12 Nov 2009

Outstanding Polymer Researchers Win SPSJ Wiley Award

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), announced today that two outstanding researchers have been selected as the recipients of the seventh annual "SPSJ Wiley Award", which Wiley organizes in conju...

12 Nov 2009

Nanometrics Receives Multiple Orders for Metrology Tools from HB LED Manufacturers

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq: NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing and packaging of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs,...

12 Nov 2009

New iPhone App Reveals which Products Contain Nanotechnologies

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has developed findNano, an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover and determine whether consumer products are nanotechnology-enabled. Nan...

12 Nov 2009

BASF Launches Polyurethane Solutions Brand

The BASF brand is about to become more visible now for BASF's polyurethane customers all over the world. With the launch of the new Polyurethane Solutions brand and associated harmonization of branding across European affiliates, BASF showcases the benefits of the global Verbund for PU customers: Polyurethane Solutions stands for customer focus, innovation, flexibility, consulting and problem solving expertise, and excellent product quality from a global network of more than 35 BASF system houses.

From BASF Corporation 12 Nov 2009