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Metal Finish Resists the Corrosion Effects from Seaside Environments

Compass Ironworks, experienced Pennsylvania Dutch craftsman, have made a major breakthrough in the metalworking industry by creating a finish that combats the effects of ocean air on metal railings, gates and décor that adorns beautiful waterfront homes.

16 Oct 2009

America's Watchdog Chinese Drywall Complaint Center Investigates Air Conditioning Coil Failures

Americas Watchdog's Chinese Drywall Complaint Center is the leading consumer advocacy attempting to assist US homeowners stuck in a home that contains toxic Chinese drywall. The group is now expanding its ongoing investigation of air conditioning coil failures with an urgent appeal to homeowners who live in a Florida home/condominium with toxic Chinese to call them if they have lost more than two air conditioning coils since 2002 to the present.

16 Oct 2009

Art, Science and Applications of Reflectance Spectroscopy (ASARS) Symposium

ASD Inc. and IEEE GRSS present the Art, Science and Applications of Reflectance Spectroscopy (ASARS) Symposium February 23-25, 2010, in Boulder, Colorado USA. The symposium is a unique scientific event highlighting advan...

16 Oct 2009

Next Generation Edge Filtration Maybe the Ideal Solution for Grinding Operations

Transor Filter has announced the next generation in "edge filtration" development. According to Transor President Irv Kaage, "In independent testing in the field, Transor's patented and unique edge filtration design continues to outperform other types of filtration available in the market in grinding and EDM applications that utilize oil based coolants.

16 Oct 2009

Metafoam Copper Foam Outperforms Sintered Copper Powder Wick Pipes

Metafoam announces that, following extensive tests with partners as well as with a third party thermal management test specialist, heat pipes using copper foam wick structures developed by Metafoam achieve superior dry-o...

16 Oct 2009

LED Conference and Exhibition Expecting Record Attendance

The exhibit hall at next weeks LEDs 2009 is going to be hopping with excitement as over 700 attendees gather to check out what's new in LEDs. With only a few days left before LEDs 2009 in San Diego, the 10th annual conference will have record attendance and will be one of the most important events of the year!

16 Oct 2009

Advanced Thinking to Revolutionise Welding

A multi-million pound engineering research project is using advanced thinking to revolutionise the welding industry – and offering the prospect of saving lives.

16 Oct 2009

Hydro Increases Aluminium Recycling Efforts

Roland Scharf-Bergmann joins Hydro to lead and support its common activities in aluminium recycling, an area in which Hydro is evaluating further investments.

From Hydro - Aluminium Alloys and Products 16 Oct 2009

Paper Thin Flexible Speaker Wins Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, accepted the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award ...

16 Oct 2009

Weather Resistant UV-Curing Coatings Made Possible with Allophanate Technology

UV-curing coatings formulated with urethane acrylates combine the excellent property profile of polyurethane (PU) systems with the efficiency of photopolymerization. Special urethane acrylates can be used to formulate we...

16 Oct 2009

Bayer Increases Range of Polyurethane Raw Materials for Waterborne, Radiation-Curing Coatings

Bayer MaterialScience has added three new products to its successful Bayhydrol UV range of water-thinned, radiation-curing coating materials. These are ideal particularly for wood and furniture finishing, which demand hi...

16 Oct 2009

Some Hydrides become Stable Metals under Pressure

From detailed assessments of electronic structure, researchers at the University at Buffalo, Cornell University, Stony Brook University and Moscow State University discovered that unexpected hydrides violating standard valence rules, such as LiH6 and LiH8, become stable metals at a pressure approximately one quarter of that required to metalize pure hydrogen itself; findings that were published in an October 5, 2009 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

16 Oct 2009

Gold Nanostars Discovered while Trying to Make Graphene More Useful

To functionalize graphene with gold -- thus controlling its electronics properties -- engineers at Kansas State University embedded gold on graphene. Rather than distributing itself evenly over graphene, the gold formed islands on the sheets' surfaces. They named these islands snowflake-shaped gold nanostars.

16 Oct 2009

Applied Materials and ITRI Collaborate on 3D Chip Stacking Technology

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Applied Materials, Inc. announced today a collaboration to accelerate the development and commercialization of 3D* chip stacking technology. To enable this...

From Applied Materials Inc 16 Oct 2009

Predicted Downward Trend in Steel Prices Materialises for Flat Products

The downward trend in steel prices, predicted by MEPS (International) Ltd. last month, has already begun for flat products in some European countries. Material has been in fairly short supply in recent months because pro...

16 Oct 2009