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NuSil Increases Silicone Offerings for the Aerospace Industry

NuSil Technology, a cutting-edge manufacturer of silicone-based materials for aerospace, aircraft, electronics and photonics industries, announces the launch of an extension to its line of adhesives and sealants. R-3930 ...

17 Jun 2009

ClearCurve Bend-Insensitive Fiber Stes a New Standard for Data Centers

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced worldwide a new optical fiber data center solution that addresses the critical issues facing today's chief information officers (CIOs) and also will meet the demands of...

17 Jun 2009

Nanotech Big Guns Join Forces and Attack Semiconductor Market

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq: NANO) and Zygo Corporation (Nasdaq: ZIGO), each leading providers of optical metrology technologies to the global semiconductor and related industries, today announced that Nanometrics h...

17 Jun 2009

Timken Bearings Help Polish Miners Reduce Downtime

The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) is supplying tapered roller bearings for longwall shearer loaders used in underground coal mines in Poland. The loaders are produced by FAMUR Group of Poland, the largest mining machinery m...

From The Timken Co. 17 Jun 2009

Coal Briquettes and More Efficient Stoves Could Help China Reduce Pollution

Scientists in China are recommending that the Chinese government consider phasing out the direct burning of traditional chunks of coal in millions of households. It suggests that the government substitute coal briquettes and improved stoves for cooking and heating to help reduce the country’s high air pollution levels.

17 Jun 2009

Algae Could Solve the Global Energy Crisis

Scientists in Canada and India are proposing a surprising new solution to the global energy crisis — “milking” oil from the tiny, single-cell algae known as diatoms, renowned for their intricate, beautifully sculpted shells that resemble fine lacework. Their report appears online in the current issue of the ACS’ bi-monthly journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

17 Jun 2009

Boeing Successfully Tests Sustainable Biofuels

Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a team from across the aviation industry today released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of pioneering test flights performed favorably in com...

17 Jun 2009

Hardware, Software and Services to Help Process Manufacturers Save the Environment

Honeywell today announced Energy Management Solutions, a customisable portfolio of new and existing hardware, software and services to help improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The sol...

17 Jun 2009

Exxon Mobil Upgrades Pegasus Pipeline to Provide 50% More Capacity

Exxon Mobil Pipe Line Company, an affiliate of ExxonMobil Pipeline Company, has completed a project that will increase capacity by 50 percent, or about 30,000 barrels per day, of its 858-mile Pegasus Pipeline that operat...

17 Jun 2009

Shaw group Wins Contract to Help EPA Evaluate Hazardous Waste Treatment Technologies

The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR), a leading global provider of technology, engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, fabrication, manufacturing, consulting, remediation and facilities management services for go...

17 Jun 2009

Silicon on Insulator Industry Consortium Adds More Expertise

The SOI Industry Consortium, an international group chartered with accelerating silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into broad markets by promoting the benefits of SOI technology and reducing the barriers to adoption, ...

17 Jun 2009

Jenoptik to Equip Thin Film Solar Cell Manufacturing Plant

The order to JENOPTIK Automatisierungstechnik GmbH comprises a total of four systems. With these, Jenoptik is equipping important steps in the entire manufacturing process of thin-film solar cells to the Taiwanese manufa...

17 Jun 2009

Simulation of Electrical Current Moving through a Futuristic Transistor at the Atomic Level

A simulation of electrical current moving through a futuristic electronic transistor has been modeled atom-by-atom in less than 15 minutes by Purdue University researchers.

17 Jun 2009

Physicists Freeze a Tiny Glass Sphere

University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical vibrations to a near standstill.

17 Jun 2009

Homeowners in Teaxs Being Warned About Toxic Chinese Drywalling

The Chinese Drywall Complaint Center is warning homeowners in Texas about toxic Chinese drywall, in 1000's of new homes built since 2004, in the metro areas of Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and other Texas ci...

17 Jun 2009