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Cyberlux Corporation Awarded U.S. Patent Claims For Emergency Lighting Technology

Cyberlux Corporation has announced that the U.S. Patent Office has recently awarded protection for the Company’s “Apparatus and Methods for Providing Emergency Safety Lighting.” “Cyberlux Corpo...

7 Nov 2006

Corning Breaks Ground on LCD Glass Finishing Facility in China

Corning Incorporated has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary in the People’s Republic of China hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate finishing facility. C...

7 Nov 2006

Ceradyne Wins $122 Million Ceramic Body Armor Orders

Ceradyne has received two ceramic body armor delivery orders totaling $122.2 million from the U.S. Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The orders are for $57.3 million of ESAPI and $64.9 million of ESBI (side plates...

7 Nov 2006

Caltech Gets $6.5 Million For Research on Solar-Driven Energy

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $6.5 million to found the Center for Sustainable Energy Research at the California Institute of Technology. The center will conduct research on solar-driven renewable-ene...

7 Nov 2006

India Wants to Maintain a Liberal Scrap Import Regime

The new import registration scheme developed by India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) was not intended to diminish the flow of scrap into the country or to deter bona fide exporters, delegates to the ...

7 Nov 2006

Scrap Has Not Gone Out of Style

There were some fears for the future of ferrous scrap when, two years ago, China was investing heavily in gigantic blast furnace-based steel production. However, with substantial new electric arc furnace capacity being a...

7 Nov 2006

Strong Demand for Stainless Steel Likely to Continue

Strong demand for stainless steel is likely to continue for the remainder of this year and probably into the first quarter of 2007. That was the welcome forecast issued to the BIR Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Rou...

7 Nov 2006

Used Tyres on the Priority List on the EU End-of-Waste Criteria

Scrap tyres feature on the priority list of end-of-life streams to be studied by the Environment Committee of the European Parliament in the context of its wider review of when waste ceases to be waste, the latest BIR Ty...

7 Nov 2006

Plastics Recycling Sector Over-Regulated

In his first meeting as Chairman of the BIR Plastics Round-Table, Surendra Borad of Belgium-based Gemini Corporation NV lamented “the imposition of multiple rules and regulations on recyclable plastics” in Eu...

7 Nov 2006

Alcan to Invest US$7 Million into Specialty Sheet Rhenalu Facility France

Alcan will invest US$7 million in its Specialty Sheet Alcan Rhenalu facility at Neuf-Brisach, France to recycle Used Beverage Cans (UBC) made from aluminum. The new capacity is scheduled to come on stream by the beginnin...

7 Nov 2006

MIT and Cambridge Design Silent, Eco-Friendly Plane

MIT and Cambridge University researchers unveiled the conceptual design for a silent, environmentally friendly passenger plane at a press conference Monday, Nov. 6, at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London. "P...

7 Nov 2006

Applied Materials to Acquire Brooks Software for $125 Million

Applied Materials has announced that it has agreed to purchase the assets of Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc., for $125 million in cash. Brooks Software is a leading provider of factory management a...

7 Nov 2006

Physicists Observe New Property of Matter

Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within "excitons," the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductor...

7 Nov 2006

University at Buffalo Installs 6,300 Square Feet of Photovoltaic Panels

It may not look like your typical classroom but the 6,300 square feet of photovoltaic panels just installed on top of Norton Hall at the University at Buffalo have a mission to educate, as well as generate power for the ...

7 Nov 2006

Advanced Glazing Systems Continues to Develop Lighter Higher Strength Glass Products

WFNN continues report on companies to highlight companies believed to have high growth prospects. Dr. Joseph Louis deBeauchamp posted his report on six sites to allow investors to read about these companies. WFNN said...

6 Nov 2006

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

The global semiconductor market has entered an exciting period. Demand for chip technology is both driving the industry as well as hindering it, with current chip shortages predicted to last for some time. Current trends will likely shape the future of the industry, which is set to continue to show

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

The primary distinction between graphene-based batteries and solid-state batteries lies in the composition of either electrode. Although the cathode is commonly changed, carbon allotropes can also be employed in fabricating anodes.

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

In recent years, the IoT is rapidly being introduced into almost all sectors, but it has particular importance in the EV industry.

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Cyberlux Corporation Awarded U.S. Patent Claims For Emergency Lighting Technology

Corning Breaks Ground on LCD Glass Finishing Facility in China

Ceradyne Wins $122 Million Ceramic Body Armor Orders

Caltech Gets $6.5 Million For Research on Solar-Driven Energy

India Wants to Maintain a Liberal Scrap Import Regime

Scrap Has Not Gone Out of Style

Strong Demand for Stainless Steel Likely to Continue

Used Tyres on the Priority List on the EU End-of-Waste Criteria

Plastics Recycling Sector Over-Regulated

Alcan to Invest US$7 Million into Specialty Sheet Rhenalu Facility France

MIT and Cambridge Design Silent, Eco-Friendly Plane

Applied Materials to Acquire Brooks Software for $125 Million

Physicists Observe New Property of Matter

University at Buffalo Installs 6,300 Square Feet of Photovoltaic Panels

Advanced Glazing Systems Continues to Develop Lighter Higher Strength Glass Products

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

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Reshaping Metallographic Sample Preparation

How Advanced Particulate Monitors are Transforming Real-time Air Quality Management

Overcoming Challenges and Perfecting Techniques for Accurate XRF Analysis

1Cost-Effective and Environmentally Benign Aluminum-Ion Battery

2Converting 2D Kaolinite into 3D Amorphous Cement

3Atomic-Scale Platinum Clusters for Efficient Catalysis

4Emerson Helps Oil and Gas Company Meet Emissions Standards with New Electric Dump Valves

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