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New High Performance Plastics for Automotive Applications

The DuPont Vespel parts
and shapes business has expanded its high-performance portfolio with new Vespel
SP-2515 polyimide parts, initially targeted for the global automotive and commercial
vehicle industries, where tight tolerances, durability and improvements in energy
efficiency are demanded.

2 Apr 2009

Silicone Rubber Helps Reduce Water Waste Helpuing to Combat Global Warming

Less is more - as the world seeks to find solutions to global warming
and rapidly depleting water levels, Dow
Corning develops rubber silicone technology to help control water efficiency
on plantations by at least 40%.

From Dow Corning 2 Apr 2009

Corus Opens Aerospace Service Centre in China to Deal with Market Demand

Corus has today opened
a new service centre in China to supply the country's growing aerospace
industry.

2 Apr 2009

Alcoa Completes Deal Taking Ownership of Norwegian Aluminum Production Capacity

Alcoa today announced it has completed its exchange of stakes with ORKLA
ASA for its Elkem Norwegian smelting partnership, which includes aluminum smelters
in Lista and Mosjoen, as well as one of the world’s most modern anode
plants, also in Mosjoen.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 2 Apr 2009

Aluminum Giant Seeks to Preserve Jobs Despite Production Cuts

In an innovative example of a private corporation and a public entity partnering
to retain jobs during the economic downturn, the New York Power Authority
and Alcoa, today announced they have reached
an agreement that will save hundreds of jobs at Alcoa.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 2 Apr 2009

Air Products to Play Key Role in World's First Full Demonstration of Oxyfuel Carbon Capture

Air
Products announced it will play a key role in the world's
first full demonstration of oxyfuel carbon capture and sequestration with the
signing of an agreement with Vattenfall AB, one of Europe's leading energy companies.

From Air Products PLC 1 Apr 2009

Rio Tinto Receives Approval for Partnership with Chinalco

Rio Tinto notes that Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) has received approval from the German Federal Cartel Office for Chinalco’s proposal to enter into a strategic partnership with Rio Tinto, as announced o...

1 Apr 2009

New Test Bench under Development for High Temperature Fatigue Testing of Gas Turbine Alloys

TECNALIA Technological Corporation participates in the development and manufacture of a test bench for carrying out high temperature CCF (Combined cycle fatigue) tests and FCC tests on alloys currently used in gas turbin...

1 Apr 2009

New Superthin Flexible Louspeaker Developed

A groundbreaking new loudspeaker, less than 0.25mm thick, has been developed
by University of Warwick
engineers, it's flat, flexible, could be hung on a wall like a picture, and
its particular method of sound generation could make public announcements in
places like passenger terminals clearer, crisper, and easier to hear.

1 Apr 2009

Do the US and European Steainless Steel Makers Need and Alloy Surcharge?

Why do the US and EU stainless steelmakers need an alloy surcharge mechanism
to set market prices? The answer is that they do not.

1 Apr 2009

Toshiba Take Full Control of LCD Joint Venture

Toshiba Corporation and Panasonic
Corporation announced that
today the two companies have signed a share transfer agreement under which Toshiba
will acquire all of Panasonic's shares in Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology
Co., Ltd. (TMD), a joint venture that develops, manufactures and sells liquid
crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light emitting displays (OLEDs).

1 Apr 2009

Innovative Mould Design Allows the Production of More Comfortable Car Interiors

The innovative Varysoft slide-table mould developed by Georg
Kaufmann Formenbau AG, Busslingen/Switzerland, enables the production of
particularly comfortable passenger compartment parts: it is now possible, for
the first time ever, to vary the thickness of the layer of soft-touch foam via
the mould geometry.

1 Apr 2009

Alloy Wheel Maker Utilises New Technique to Cut Wheel Weight

TSW Alloy Wheels, an industry
leader in the development of innovative and striking aftermarket alloy wheels,
has introduced an aggressive face-forward multi-spoke wheel, the Asan.

1 Apr 2009

Investment Casting Specialist Purchases Air Blast Room

In late-August 2008, Pacific Cast Technologies (PCT), an investment casting
foundry located in Albany, Ore., purchased an Air Blast room for their facility.
PCT (acquired by Ladish in 2000) offers precision shell cast technology, in
particular, for titanium investment castings. The company has the technology,
equipment and expertise to cast titanium parts in some of the largest sizes.

1 Apr 2009

Three Leaders and Innovators to be Inducted in Thermal Spray Hall of Fame

Three leaders and innovators who have shaped the past, present and future
of thermal spray technology will be inducted into the Thermal Spray Hall of
Fame this May.

From ASM International 1 Apr 2009