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Renewable Fiber Now Available for the Commercial Carpet Industry

DuPont today announced that Sorona renewably sourced fiber is now available for the commercial carpet industry. Carpet made with DuPont Sorona fiber offers customers uncompromised performance plus the added benefit of an...

16 Jun 2009

Cereplast Launches Bio-Based Foamable Resin

Cereplast, Inc. (OTCBB:CERP), developer of proprietary bio-based sustainable plastics, today announced the launch of a breakthrough bio-based foamable resin to compete with Styrofoam and other foamable petroleum-based re...

16 Jun 2009

Alcoa Completes Divestiture of Wire Harness and Electrical Distribution Business

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it has completed the divestiture of its wire harness and electrical distribution business to Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity group. Terms of the divestiture were no...

15 Jun 2009

Nanomaterials Manufacturer Honored with Frost and Sullivan Award

ShengdaTech, Inc. ("ShengdaTech" or "The Company") (NASDAQ:SDTH) , a leading manufacturer of nano precipitated calcium carbonate ("NPCC"), today announced that Frost + Sullivan, a well-known...

15 Jun 2009

Industrial Inkjet Systems Manufacturer to Speak on High Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells

iTi Corporation, is recognized as a worldwide expert in high precision industrial inkjet systems, today announced that board member, John Spiers, will be a featured speaker at the Nano Renewable Energy Summit, held June ...

15 Jun 2009

Study Finds Aluminum Nanoparticles Rapidly Aggomerate and Do Not Pose a Threat as Nano-Sized Particles

Nanoparticles offer multiple benefits to society in areas such as medicine, energy production and conservation, and pollution clean-up. Because nanoparticles is a relatively new technology area, we need to understand the...

15 Jun 2009

Carbon Fiber Marker Expected to Grow Despite Poor Enonomy

Significant changes have taken place in the carbon fiber market in the last 4 to 5 years. There was a shortage of carbon fiber from 2005 to 2006, however due to the global economic recession, the market scenario is rapid...

15 Jun 2009

Degradation of Cement Research Wins Prize

For the seventh year running, the Elhuyar Foundation has organised the Thesis Prize and today the Judging Panel has made the winners' names known. The three prizes have gone to researchers at the University of the Ba...

15 Jun 2009

World's Longest Sofa Ever Built is Environmentally Friendly

The world’s longest sofa was built this weekend in Sykkylven, Norway. More than 800 metres long, seating 1500 persons. It is also the greenest sofa so far that got an environmental product declaration. In the future you can read on a tag that comes along with the price tag whether the sofa of your choice has a large environmental impact, or not.

15 Jun 2009

Multi-Sert, A Direct Replacement for Discontinued Metal Thread Inserts

Yardley Products Corporation a manufacturer of precision engineered threaded metal insert fasteners, today announced the offering of the Yardley Multi-Sert, a direct replacement press-in metal insert for the discontinued Southco 71 and 72 series threaded inserts.

15 Jun 2009

New Self Consolidating Concrete Mixes Available from iCrete

iCrete, a clean technology leader and the world's premier concrete technology company, announced today the introduction of a new family of advanced self-consolidating concrete (SCC) mixes. Said iCrete's Presid...

15 Jun 2009

Chinese Drywall Complaint Center Demands Answers

The Chinese Drywall Complaint Center is now saying, "based on our intake from homeowners, the toxic Chinese drywall situation is getting worse by the week. This week we added Kentucky & Iowa to our list, and Texas & the West Coast scare us to death."

15 Jun 2009

Construction Aggregates Company Takes Ownership of Joint Venture

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE:MLM), announced today that it has acquired three quarries plus the remaining 49% interest in an existing joint venture from CEMEX, Inc. The purchase price for the assets of the three...

15 Jun 2009

Innovative Escalator Design Allows Mobility Impaired People to Travel

People with impaired mobility who move around in wheelchairs, people who are transporting bulky loads and all other users will be able to travel upwards and downwards without assistance using the innovative escalator designed by Jesús Sánchez, a student at the School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

15 Jun 2009

Sunoco Complete Purchase of Ethanol Manufacturing Facility

Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE:SUN) announced today that it has completed the previously announced purchase of a 100 million gallons-per-year ethanol manufacturing facility in Volney, New York from Northeast Biofuels, LP for $8.5 mi...

15 Jun 2009