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Oxford Instruments NanoScience Place 2nd at British Engineering Excellence Awards

Oxford Instruments NanoScience Ultra Low Temperature engineering team achieved "highly commended" runners up place at the 2009 British Engineering Excellence Awards ceremony held at the Globe Theatre in London on Oct 1st, 2009. The award was made in the New Product of the Year (Mechanical) category for a Cryogen-free integrated dilution refrigerator TritonTM200 with magnet in recognition of the product design enhancements, cost reduction, first time pass rate and market growth achieved since the radical redesign project was implemented in July 2008.

From Oxford Instruments Nanoscience 13 Oct 2009

Freeman Powder Rheometer Provides Rapid, Consistent Characterisation of Powders

Use of the FT4 Powder Rheometer from Freeman Technology is enabling organic chemists at Clarochem (Ireland) Limited, to incorporate some fundamental aspects of material science into their crystallization work. This is proving to be a significant point of differentiation in their field.

From Freeman Technology 13 Oct 2009

OSRAM Wins Design Award for Automotive Lamp Boxes

The international contest for the red dot design award is one of the largest design competitions in the world with the red dot trophy considered to be an international hallmark of design quality. Munich-based lighting ma...

From Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 12 Oct 2009

US Steel Sells Out of Wabush Mine

U. S. Steel Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Limited ("Consolidated&quo...

12 Oct 2009

BASF and Dow Announce Support for Patent Asset Index

BASF SE (Deutsche Börse: BAS) and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: Dow), the world's two largest chemical companies, today jointly announced their support for the Patent Asset Index, a new methodology that measur...

From BASF Corporation 12 Oct 2009

DuPont - Helping Produce More Efficient Cars

DuPont designs and develops more than 100 products used in every major system in vehicles.

12 Oct 2009

Dow Corning to Introduce Soft Armor to Personal Protection Market

Dow Corning Corporation's Impact Protection Business Development Manager Dr. Liz Mallen will present "The Dow Corning Active Protection System: Two Years on New Learnings, New Challenges, New Opportunities and T...

From Dow Corning 12 Oct 2009

Copper Oxide Ceramic Puzzle Solved Bringing High Temperature Superconductivity Closer

A team led by physicists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have resolved a decade-long puzzle that is set to have huge implications for use of one of the most versatile classes of materials available to us for future technology applications: copper oxide ceramics. The results are published online this week in the journal Nature Physics.

12 Oct 2009

Alcoa Names Top 10 Scrap Suppliers

Alcoa North American Rolled Products (NARP) Scrap Purchasing announced today the Top Ten Scrap Suppliers, as we continue to apply the same high purchasing standards used with our supply base for the past five years. The ...

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 12 Oct 2009

State-of-the-Art LED Video Display Welcomes Casino Goers

Federal Heath Sign Company has installed a state-of-the-art LED video display at the Isleta Casino & Resort, located in Albuquerque, NM. The Complex has completed its multimillion dollar expansion, featuring a dramat...

12 Oct 2009

Qteros Commences Construction of Final Stage of Biofuel Plant in Chicopee

Business leaders, politicians, and venture capitalists were on hand today as Qteros officially launched the build-out of their cellulosic ethanol pretreatment plant site in Chicopee. Located adjacent to the Westover Air ...

12 Oct 2009

New Four Axle Servo-Control CNC Saw Grinder from Jeffer Machinery

ASG-550 is a four axle servo-control CNC saw grinder; the grinding angles, the teeth numbers, and the teeth depth can be automatically set up and controlled. No mater face grinding, top grinding or saw grinding, all of these actions can be done in one time.

12 Oct 2009

New Military Version of the Backpack Power Plant

Bourne has completed a new version of its Backpack Power Plant (BPP-1) hydrokinetic system, a zero-fuel continuous 24/7/365 power generator that is ultra-portable. The original 30-pound, 500W BPP-1 has garnered considera...

12 Oct 2009

Electric Cars to Benefit from New Type of Redox Flow Battery

A new type of redox flow battery presents a huge advantage for electric cars. If the rechargeable batteries are low, the discharged electrolyte fluid can simply be exchanged at the gas station for recharged fluid – as easy as refilling the petrol tank.

12 Oct 2009

Waterjet Manufacturer Jet Edge Broadens Product Offering through Acquisition

Waterjet manufacturer Jet Edge, Inc. of St. Michael, Minn., is pleased to announce that it has acquired Calypso Waterjet Systems of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1992, Calypso Waterjet Systems had been a world-leading ma...

From Jet Edge Waterjet Systems 12 Oct 2009