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JEOL NeoScope SEM Wins Award for Nikon Instruments

The JEOL NeoScope benchtop SEM, born from the combined expertise of Nikon Instruments and JEOL, is the winner of the SelectScience Scientists’ Choice Award for Best New General Lab Product 2008.

26 May 2009

Sandstone Textured Composite Doors

Special-Lite, Inc. has introduced a new fiberglass reinforced polyester (FRP) face sheet with a more aesthetically-pleasing, fine-grained texture for use on exterior flush doors. The exclusive new "sandstone texture...

26 May 2009

America's Watchdog Calls for Obama to Weigh in Chinese Drywall Crisis

According to Americas Watchdog, "its high time for President Obama, & the US Congress to embrace a national disaster involving 100,000's of US homes, that contain toxic Chinese drywall. We need to treat the US toxic Chinese drywall disaster like a natural disaster, and a meaningful federal response is long overdue."

26 May 2009

Cabot Receive Award for CMP Polishing Slurries

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (Nasdaq: CCMP), the world's leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries and growing CMP pad supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced toda...

26 May 2009

Steelmaker Revamps Lime Rotary Kiln to Reduce Dust Emissions

Novolipetsk Steel has begun to revamp its lime rotary kiln dedusting systems in the refractory shop. This new environmental project will enable the Company to reduce dust in gases released by process facilities by two ti...

26 May 2009

Goodyear to Cease Making Consumer Tires at French Plant

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company today announced a plan that would discontinue consumer tire production at a plant in Amiens, France, as part of its strategy to reduce high-cost manufacturing capacity globally. &q...

26 May 2009

Molecular Imprints Announce Major Expansion for Lithography Business

Molecular Imprints, Inc., the market and technology leader for nanopatterning systems and solutions, today announced an expansion plan that includes increasing its workforce with the addition of 30-50 employment opportun...

26 May 2009

Unmanned Aerial Miliatry Vehicle to be Powered by the Sun

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), the most recent company created by ITN Energy Systems who established AST in 2005 to manufacturer state of the art, thin-film monolithically-integrated CIGS flexible photovo...

26 May 2009

Obducat Ready to Launch New Lithography System

Obducat's new lithography system is ready to be launched. The system, named Sindre 400, is the world's first fully automated system for high volume manufacturing of LEDs. Sindre 400 is a vital contribution to the...

26 May 2009

Veeco Launch Confocal Metrology Optical Profiler Systems

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leader in scientific and industrial metrology, today announced the launch of its Veeco Confocal Metrology (VCM™) Optical Profiler Systems. Veeco's new VCM Profilers provide a compact and easy-to-use non-contact metrology solution for applications requiring data acquisition from steep slopes, high surface roughness, or beneath transparent layers.

From Veeco 26 May 2009

ABTech Completes First Optics Module Assembly for Astrophysics Laboratory

ABTech Inc, an ultra-precision air bearing motion system manufacturer in Swanzey, New Hampshire, has completed the first of two cylindrical optics module assembly machines for Columbia University's Nevis Astrophysics Laboratory. The culmination of eight months of design and manufacturing is a multi-axis air bearing machine platform optimized for the construction of high-energy x-ray telescopes.

26 May 2009

Thin Film Silicon Solar Cell Developer Successfully Demonstrates High Throughput Manufacturing Process

Xunlight Corporation, a leader in the development of flexible and lightweight thin-film silicon solar modules, announced today that it has successfully demonstrated its high-throughput, wide-web, roll-to-roll photovoltaic manufacturing process for the production of high-efficiency thin-film silicon PV modules.

26 May 2009

DOMINANT Extends Its Range of Primax LEDs

In order to complete the Primax product portfolio and fulfill lighting market demand, DOMINANT is now extending this series with high Color Rendering Index (CRI) products in 0.2-Watt white and warm white versions, NA2W-PSC and NA2F-PSC. These high CRI products are compliant to United State Energy Star guidelines; fulfilling minimum CRI required of 75.

26 May 2009

New SEM at WVU to Help Development of Nano Devices

The city of Morgantown, West Virginia, home to West Virginia University, is making national headlines as an "economic oasis." It is one of the few U.S. locations to be successfully isolated from the current recession, offering diverse opportunities for employment and research plus a low cost of living.

26 May 2009

Sandia and Japan's AIST to Share Materials Information

Sandia National Laboratories and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have signed an agreement to conduct and share research of mutual interest. Areas of immediate importance na...

26 May 2009