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Ferro Corp Add Eight New Metallization Products to Its Photovoltaics Range

Ferro Corporation’s Electronic Material Systems business, a leading supplier of materials for fabricating photovoltaic silicon solar cells for more than 20 years, broadened its product line with eight new products ...

6 Sep 2007

New Rheology Modifer from Rohm and Haas Improves Viscosity Stability

Rohm and Haas has announced the launch of a new KU-building rheology modifier based on new technology developed by the company. Acrysol(TM) RM-895 is a solvent-free, nonionic, HEUR rheology modifier that provides outstan...

6 Sep 2007

ExxonMobil to Build World Class Cracker in Singapore

ExxonMobil Chemical Company announced today that it has completed its detailed study of a second world-scale steam cracker complex in Singapore and made the final decision to proceed with construction. The project will b...

6 Sep 2007

Formaldehyde-Free Textile Pigment Printing System from BASF

The latest generation of the established Helizarin® textile pigment printing system from BASF is now formaldehyde-free. As a result, textile producers can now meet all regulatory standards, as well as the requirement...

6 Sep 2007

Novel Laser Measurement System Reduces Rejects when Bending Exotic Alloys

Costly scrap when making precision bends on exotic alloy tubes and pipes is being eliminated, thanks to Unison's novel laser measurement system. A user of a Unison tube bender fitted with the laser system is repor...

6 Sep 2007

American Superconductor Receive Follow-on Order from Major US Semiconductor Manufacturer

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, today announced that a major U.S.-based semiconductor chip manufacturer has placed a follow-on order for AMSC's Power Quality Industrial Vol...

6 Sep 2007

BASF Showcase Colorants and Light Stabilizers at K 2007

At the K 2007 in Düsseldorf, Germany, (October 24 – 31), BASF will be presenting colorants and light stabilizers for innovative products and custom solutions for the entire value chain. At the BASF Stand B21 i...

6 Sep 2007

Scientists Find the Formula for a Spiderman Suit

IOP Publishing is pleased to announce the online publication of “Towards a Spiderman suit: large invisible cables and self-cleaning releasable superadhesive materials” in the widely-respected Journal of Physi...

6 Sep 2007

Prototype Smart Nanobattery Based on Lithium Chemistry getting Closer

AlwaysReady, Inc., a new subsidiary of mPhase Technologies, Inc., said that it is making good progress in its research and development effort as part of the recently awarded grant from the U.S. Army to develop a prototyp...

6 Sep 2007

Toshiba and SanDisk Open New 300mm Wafer Plant for NAND Flash Memory

Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk(R) Corporation today celebrated with a traditional ceremony and reception the opening of Fab 4, the latest 300mm wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations, in Mie Pr...

6 Sep 2007

ISS Appointed Distributor for Tescan in UK and Ireland

Tescan, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of scanning electron microscopes, have appointed the ISS Group as their distributor for the UK and Ireland. Founded in Brno in the Czech Republic in 1991, Tescan have s...

5 Sep 2007

Bayer MaterialScience Double Carbon Nanotube Production Capacity

Bayer MaterialScience AG is opening a second production facility for Baytubes®, its carbon nanotubes, at H.C. Starck GmbH in the town of Laufenburg on the German-Swiss border. The new facility has an annual capacity ...

5 Sep 2007

NASA Carbon Nanotube Fabrication Technology Commercialized

A NASA-developed innovative process is making waves in the nanotechnology field and spurring the development of new companies in the process. A new company based in Austin, Texas, Nanotailor, has licensed NASA Goddard Sp...

5 Sep 2007

Sandia Bids Farewell to Pulsed Reactor

The Sandia National Laboratories Pulsed Reactor (SPR) rides off into the sunset, headed toward Nevada. It leaves behind the operators who are sad to see such an important part of Sandia National Laboratories’ work ...

5 Sep 2007

Non-Stick Packaging Lets You get the Last Drop Out

Shaking and tapping is often the only way to get the last drop of ketchup out of the bottle. But in future, even this final drop will slide out easily onto the barbecued steak – thanks to a special coating on the p...

4 Sep 2007