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WACKER Complete Expansion of Shanghai Technical Center

The Munich-based chemical Group WACKER has recently finished expansion of its Shanghai Technical Center located at Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. The facility now houses over ten labs for WACKER’s silicone and polymer activities, serving a wide range of industries from construction, coatings and adhesives to electronics, textile, cosmetics and home care.

12 May 2009

New Range of Torsion Testing Equipment Available from ADMET

ADMET Inc., a provider of integrated materials testing systems, is introducing a new line of torsion testing machines, controllers and accessories. Called eXpert 81T, the torsion testers are table top units with capacities to 200 Nm (1,800 lb-in).

From Admet, Inc. - Materials Testing Equipment 12 May 2009

Aluminum Architectural Products Help Green Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh

Alcoa announced today that a range of its Kawneer architectural aluminum products are contributing to the “green” campus of the newly constructed $625 million Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The facility incorporates Kawneer products that maximize daylighting and thermal performance, including curtain wall, sunshades and thermally broken windows and doors.

12 May 2009

PPG to Invest in a New Acid Burner Unit

PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has announced that it will invest nearly $6 million to install a new acid burner unit at its Natrium, W.Va., plant. The new unit, which is expected to be operational by late 2009, will help the...

From PPG Industries Inc. 12 May 2009

UN Stockholm Convention Concludes that only Certain Lower Brominated Diphenylethers are POPs

The 4th meeting of the Convention of the Parties (COP4) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) decided on 8 May to list only certain lower brominated substances as POPs. These substances were...

12 May 2009

Attorneys and Experts to Meet to Discuss Chinese Drywall Disaster

Attorneys and experts will gather in New Orleans on June 18 to share information and network on the latest health and property damage controversy involving building materials: drywall imported from China. They also are g...

12 May 2009

Major Funding for US Research Infrastructure

The National Science Foundation today announced a special opportunity for funding projects that strengthen the research infrastructure in the nation's science and engineering research and education institutions. Funding of $300 million was provided for the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.

12 May 2009

Most Powerful Femtosecond Laser on Show at LASER World of Photonics 2009

Femtosecond lasers (fs-lasers) are the key to ultra-precision processing. Whether in medicine, electronics, aerospace or solar technology, thin coatings can be removed, fiber-reinforced plastics drilled and ceramic components' surfaces structured using fs-lasers.

12 May 2009

New Boat to be Built Entirely of Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Prepreg

Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM), a recognized worldwide leader in nanomaterials applications, unveiled a new boat to be built by Strategic Composites and made entirely with ZPM's next generation carbon nanotube (CN...

12 May 2009

Magnetic Nanoparticle-Containing Biosensor Used to Track Tumors

Such implants could one day provide up-to-the-minute information about what a tumor is doing -- whether it is growing or shrinking, how it's responding to treatment, and whether it has metastasized or is about to do so.

12 May 2009

Nanoscale Features Made to Appear Invisible

Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, any flat surface -- isn't there.

12 May 2009

New Shimadzu Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Incorporates 3-D Optics

The new AA-7000 Series atomic absorption spectrophotometer from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments incorporates recently developed 3-D optics for enhanced flame and furnace analysis.

From Shimadzu Scientific Instruments 12 May 2009

Massive Revenue Drops Predicted Across the Board for the Semiconductor Market

The Semiconductor Metrology/Inspection Equipment market finally outperformed the rest of the overall semiconductor front-end wafer processing equipment market for the first time in three years, according to the report &q...

12 May 2009

Sacmi to Take Control of Negri Bossi

The voluntary takeover bid of 4,336,668 shares of Negri Bossi S.p.A. - 9.84% of the issuer's capital - was concluded positively for the Sacmi Group's Holding company (H.P.S. S.p.A.). The sum of Negri Bossi sha...

12 May 2009

Uhde and Solvay Collaborate on Electrolysis Plants

Uhde and the internationally active Brussels-based Solvay group have agreed to collaborate in the field of brine preparation for chlor-alkali electrolysis plants. "The aim of our partnership is to offer our custo...

12 May 2009