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Rolls-Royce and Timken Partner in Helicopter Parts

Rolls-Royce Corporation and The Timken Company have announced an alliance to increase Timken's technology and service capabilities for Model 250 helicopter turboshaft engine parts and component repair. Timken's a...

From The Timken Co. 15 Dec 2005

DuPont Performance Elastomers Affirms Decision To Close Louisville Plant

DuPont Performance Elastomers, recently reaffirmed to the United Steelworkers International Union (USW) its decision to close its Louisville, Kentucky neoprene manufacturing plant in December 2006. DPE is the result of a...

15 Dec 2005

Michelin Takes Action Against Counterfeit Tires

Sales representatives from Michelin's Truck Tire Division have detected Asian replicas of Michelin tires in the European market. The counterfeiting primarily concerns the tread pattern of Michelin truck tires. It...

15 Dec 2005

Boral to Build New Clay Brick Plant in Terre Haute, Indiana

Boral Limited has announced that it will invest US$55 million to build a new clay brick plant in Terre Haute, Indiana. Boral Bricks is the largest manufacturer and distributor of clay brick in the United States. This...

15 Dec 2005

Huntsman Introduces New Low Foaming Amine With Surfactant Characteristics

Huntsman Corporation has announced the launch of its new, low foaming product, SURFONAMINE® MW 781 amine for metalworking. MW 781 has distinctive amine and surfactant properties, making it multifunctional in an indus...

15 Dec 2005

Celanese to Construct World-Scale Vinyl Acetate Monomer Plant in China

Celanese Corporation, announced that it will build a 300,000 metric ton, world-scale vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant at the company’s Nanjing, China chemical complex. The plant is expected to be operational in la...

15 Dec 2005

Alcoa Recognizes Student for Aluminum Intensive Ferrari of the Future

Alcoa has announced that it has awarded Shigenori Maeda, a design student from the College for Creative Studies of Detroit, a special design prize for Excellence in Design for Aluminum, for his model "612 Lafayette&...

15 Dec 2005

Alcan Celebrates Groundbreaking of St Petersburg Packaging Plant

Alcan Inc. has broken ground at its new packaging site in St. Petersburg, Russia. Originally announced on January 11, 2005, the initial US$30 million investment will see the construction of a state-of-the-art printing fa...

15 Dec 2005

Degussa Joint Venture to Establish Polymethylmethacrylate Plant in Taiwan

Degussa AG and Forhouse Corporation, Taichung/Taiwan, have signed agreements concerning the establishment of a joint venture for manufacturing polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) molding compounds. The joint venture, in which...

15 Dec 2005

BASF Introduces New EPP Foams for Automotive, Toys and Packaging

BASF recently extended its range of Neopolen® P foam types by five new versions which cover a variety of uses. The new products include special types in various colors, including white, and also very smooth, ultra-li...

15 Dec 2005

New Flexible Polyurethane Molded Foams for Electrical Devices Sound-Absorbent and Flame-Resistant

Polyurethane flexible molded foams from Bayer MaterialScience AG have been used for years in vehicle interiors as an effective means of reducing noise. Located in the bulkhead cladding or under the carpet, they absorb so...

15 Dec 2005

JEMA Contracted to Build Power Supplier for Nuclear Fusion Reactor

JEMA has been contracted directly by the European Commission (commissioned through the European Fusion Development Agreement, EFDA) to design, construct and install 4 sources of power supply, each capable of producing 20...

15 Dec 2005

Photonic Crystal Developments to Lead to More Powerful Lasers

A group of professors from the departments of Chemistry, Soil Science, Physics and Applied Mathematics of the University of Navarra is working together in the preparation and characterization of a type of material termed...

15 Dec 2005

AIXTRON Sells MOCVD System to Rainbow Opto for Blue LED Production

AIXTRON AG, a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced the receipt of a purchase order for a Thomas Swan 19x2" Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) gallium nitride (GaN) epit...

15 Dec 2005

Fraunhofer and Max Planck Scientists Combine Efforts to Model and Develop Metals

Scientists at Fraunhofer and Max Planck institutes have teamed up in a joint research project to enhance the development of metallic materials. By combining their different approaches they hope to increase the precision ...

15 Dec 2005