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Clariant Win Important Brazillian Paint Award for Fourth Year Running

For the fourth consecutive year, the Pigments & Additives Division of Clariant, a world-leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, has received several important supplier awards in Brazil.

13 Jun 2008

BASF to Take Over Leading South African Auto Body Parts and Paint Centre

BASF Coatings Services (Pty) Ltd. is set to take over the business of MAB Auto Body Parts and Paint Centre Ltd. in Johannesburg, South Africa. MAB sales activities related to automotive refinish products, non-paint produ...

13 Jun 2008

Intellection Lends More Support to International Minerals Industry Research

Intellection has expanded its support for international minerals industry research, becoming an industry sponsor of AMIRA International’s P9 project for the Optimisation of Mineral Processes by Modelling and Simulation.

13 Jun 2008

BASF Construction Chemicals Opens A New Plant for Concrete Admixtures

Today, the BASF Construction Chemicals division is to open a plant for concrete admixtures in Kolkata (Calcutta), East India. The new plant is BASF's response to soaring Indian construction industry demand for high-quality concrete admixtures in East India, North East India and West Bengal.

13 Jun 2008

DuPont Donate Sustainable Building Materials to Tornado Ravaged Community

DuPont and four-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Jeff Gordon today announced that DuPont will partner with customers and make an initial donation of more than 30 innovative products and services worth nearly $750,000 to help rebuild homes and businesses in tornado-ravaged Greensburg, Kan.

13 Jun 2008

Quantum Dots Produced by Low Cost Microwave Synthesis

Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a simplified, low-cost process for producing high-quality, water-soluble “quantum dots” for biological research.

13 Jun 2008

AMETEK Acquire Manufacturer of High Speed Digital Imaging Systems

AMETEK, Inc. announced the acquisition of Vision Research, Inc., a leading privately held, manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems used for motion capture and analysis in numerous test and measurement applicat...

13 Jun 2008

Bruckner gets Chinese Plastic Film Manufacturers up and Running on Schedule

Throughout the international plastics film industry, Brückner is renowned for their absolute reliability when it comes to commissioning film production lines, thus ensuring customers an early return on investment.

From Brückner Group USA Inc. 13 Jun 2008

Malvern Particle Characterization System Grows in Popularity with the Abrasives Industry

Continued growth in sales into the abrasives industry is highlighting the value of the Sysmex FPIA-3000 particle characterization system from Malvern Instruments for products whose performance is sensitive to particle shape.

13 Jun 2008

American Polysteel and ARXX Merge to Provide More Solutions for Domestic and Commerial Builders

ARXX® Corporation, a leading provider of green building envelope solutions, announced today its merger with American PolySteel®, LLC. With the addition of PolySteel, ARXX will be able to expand into new marke...

13 Jun 2008

Ausmelt Open Metals Recovery Smelter

Ausmelt Limited has officially opened its new smelter in Whyalla, South Australia. The new smelter, known as a Resource Recovery Facility, is using Ausmelt technology to recover metals from waste materials. The plant&...

13 Jun 2008

BHP Billiton Forced to Rebuild Furnace at Nickel Smelter

BHP Billiton today announced that, as a result of a deterioration of the Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter furnace in Western Australia, it would bring forward the furnace rebuild. Planning and preparation for a major rebuil...

13 Jun 2008

Europe Leads the World in Production of Flexible Electronic Displays

Flexible electronic display technology developed by European researchers has allowed companies on the continent to make inroads in a market dominated by Asian firms.

12 Jun 2008

NIST Pioneer New Technique for Fabricating Nanoscale Fluidic Devices

While the results may not rival the artistry of glassblowers in Europe and Latin America, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called “nanoglassblowing” that creates nanoscale (billionth of a meter) fluidic devices used to isolate and study single molecules in solution—including individual DNA strands.

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 12 Jun 2008

Dow Start Work on New Propylene Oxide Plant in Thailand

The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) announced today that the SCG-Dow Group, a joint venture between Dow and The Siam Cement Group (SCG), has broken ground on a propylene oxide (PO) facility in Thailand. The world-scale plant,...

12 Jun 2008