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BASF Establish New Training Center for Automotive Spray Painting Professionals

The training center will further strengthen BASF Coatings’ competencies in providing enhanced refinish coatings solutions – high quality products bundled with the best application techniques and training.

19 Sep 2008

QinetiQ Release New Software Tool to Help Aviators Reduce Fuel and Flight Time

A new software tool that allows pilots to easily adjust altitude settings based on a visual display of wind data is helping aviators to reduce fuel use and mission time. Called Vertical Visual Optimiser (VVO), the so...

From QinetiQ 19 Sep 2008

The PRIMA Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) Saw "First Light"

The PRIMA instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) recently saw "first light" at its new home atop Cerro Paranal in Chile. When fully operational, PRIMA will boost the capabilities o...

19 Sep 2008

Siemens Install Integrated Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to Improve Productivity for Russian Steel Producer

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies installs an integrated Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in the Cherepovets production complex of the Russian steel producer CherMK OAO Severstal. Severstal will thus have its own p...

19 Sep 2008

Diamon-Fusion to Apply Nano-Coating to Nike World Headquarter

The first phase took place this month on the John McEnroe Building facade along its exterior glass walls and windows. An extensive restoration process on the existing concrete-leached glass was completed utilizing DFI's proprietary restoration products prior to fashioning the Diamon-Fusion® nano-coating.

19 Sep 2008

IBM and ITRI Explores "Racetrack Memory" - An Entirely New Approach to Solid State Memory

IBM announced today that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to further explore "Racetrack Memory," an entirely new approach to ...

19 Sep 2008

Master Bond Release New Epoxy Adhesive for High Performance Bonding Applications

EP30 features very low viscosity along with outstanding chemical resistance, dimensional stability, hardness and superb optical clarity.

From Master Bond Inc. 19 Sep 2008

Geographers Use Satellite Imagery to Analyse Effectiveness of Troop Surge in Iraq

By tracking the amount of light emitted by Baghdad neighborhoods at night, a team of UCLA geographers has uncovered fresh evidence that last year's U.S. troop surge in Iraq may not have been as effective at improving...

19 Sep 2008

Schnitzer Steel Signs Agreement to Acquire Scrap Metal Processing Plant

Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ponce Resources of Salinas, Puerto Rico (“Ponce”). Ponce is engaged in the business of collecting, pro...

19 Sep 2008

Scientists Concern Fullerenes' Potential to Accumulate in Living Tissues

Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, pe...

19 Sep 2008

QinetiQ Awards Employees for Innovative Ideas at Award Ceremony

A video system for stabilising CCTV images and X-Net®, an innovation that can stop vehicles in seconds, were among 80 inventions that were showcased by international defence and security technology company QinetiQ at an awards ceremony recently.

19 Sep 2008

Timken Invest $14 Million to Expand Production Capacity of Steel Plant

The Timken Company today announced that it has invested $14 million in a new thermal treatment facility at its steel plant in Canton, Ohio. The investment will increase Timken’s capacity to produce heat-treated ste...

From The Timken Co. 19 Sep 2008

Development of the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer to Perform a Quadrillion Calculations Per Second

Iowa State University researchers will be part of a research consortium helping to develop the world's most powerful supercomputer. That machine will deliver sustained performance of a quadrillion calculations per...

19 Sep 2008

New Bluetooth System Designed to Assist Pedestrians and Blind People

A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as they pass them. The Talking Poin...

19 Sep 2008

Research Groups Craft 'Green Gasoline' from Sugar and Carbohydrates

Following independent paths of investigation, two research teams are announcing this month that they have successfully converted sugar-potentially derived from agricultural waste and non-food plants-into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and a range of other valuable chemicals.

19 Sep 2008