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PPG Honors Excellent Suppliers

PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has presented six Excellent Supplier Awards for superior performance in 2008. Award criteria included product quality, delivery, documentation, innovation, responsiveness, continuous improv...

From PPG Industries Inc. 16 Jun 2009

Malvern Instruments Technical Director Wins Prestigious Award

Malvern Panalytical’ Technical Director, Dr E Neil Lewis is to be presented with the prestigious Anachem Award by the Detroit Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at this year’s Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) conference.

From Malvern Panalytical 16 Jun 2009

Find Out How Synchotron Techniques Help Develop New Materials and Nanomaterials

Science fact surpasses science fiction at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron's 12th Annual Users' Meeting Thursday, June 18 at the Radisson Hotel in Saskatoon. Conference participants will hear about som...

16 Jun 2009

New Book on Mixing in Single Screw Extrusion

iSmithers Rapra Publishing has announced the release of Mixing in Single Screw Extrusion. Written by Martin Gale, a former Principal Consultant at Smithers Rapra, and the inventor of the cavity transfer mixer.

From Smithers Rapra Technology Ltd 16 Jun 2009

Bodycote Testing Group becomes Exova

Bodycote Testing Group, the worldwide testing and advisory business has been renamed Exova. The creation of a new name and identity which reflect the company's new direction, vision and values, has been prompted by the sale of the business by Bodycote plc last year.

16 Jun 2009

Bismuth Telluride May be the Replacement for Silicon for More Efficient Computer Chips

Move over, silicon-it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.

16 Jun 2009

Metal that Doesn't Expand When Heated

By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does no...

16 Jun 2009

Light Emitting Transistor Sets New Record

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.

16 Jun 2009

Are There Similarities between Nanoparticles and Asbestos

New Study Compares Emerging Nanomaterial Risk Concerns With Disclosure Failures That Preceded Billions of Dollars in Asbestos Litigation Losses; Reform Roadmap for FASB, SEC to be Laid Out. Are companies and investor...

16 Jun 2009

Magnetic Superatoms May be the Secret to Data Storage of the Future

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table – that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.

16 Jun 2009

Progress on Making Fuel Cells a Commercial Possibility

The high cost of manufacturing fuel cells makes their large-scale production for power generation next to impossible, but researchers at Arizona State University are working to change that so cars, electricity and much more can run on the "green" technology.

16 Jun 2009

Environmentally Friendly Material is a Direct Replacement for PVC in Packaging

Spartech Corporation, a leader in the development and design of green packaging materials, has answered the demand for an eco-progressive, sustainable replacement for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) with new UltrosRenu. &quo...

From Spartech Corporation 16 Jun 2009

Nanosilica Reinforced Adhesive Takes Epoxies to a New Level

Master Bond Inc. of Hackensack, NJ is proud to announce an incredible breakthrough in polymer technology. Master Bond UV22 is a nanosilica reinforced, UV curable epoxy system that offers a combination of properties not available in conventional epoxy systems.

From Master Bond Inc. 16 Jun 2009

Russian Steel Maker Named Best Exporter

NLMK has been recognized as "Best Exporter in Industry" by the Russian Federation Ministry of Industry and Trade in the 2008 Best Russian Exporters competition. The competition was held as part of the State...

16 Jun 2009

DSM's New Plant in India gets Coperion Polymer Extruders

DSM’s new compounding facility in Ranjangeon/India, situated not far from the city of Pune, has now been equipped with ZSK MEGAcompounder PLUS compounding extruders from Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart.

From Coperion GmbH 16 Jun 2009