As part of their global strategy to divest non-core businesses, Bayer will sell of their subsidiary Walothen GmbH to the Finnish company Wihuri. The transaction is due to be completed on September 1, pending regulatory a...
Rohm and Haas have just invested $20 million into India, where they will set up local manufacturing operations in Tajola, near Bombay.
The new plant will have two divisions producing acrylic polymers for use in coatin...
DuPont has just formed a new business unit, DuPont Integrated Circuit (IC) Fabrication Materials. This unit was formed to help their circuit materials push into the advanced materials for integrated circuits arena.
Th...
A team of scientists from the University of Strathclyde, Imperial College, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ITU and the University of Jena have been able to successfully convert the nuclear waste product iodine 129 into a...
American Steel producers US Steel and International Steel Group have signed a letter of intent to exchange assets.
Under the agreement, US Steel will exchange the assets of their plate business, including the plate mi...
Akzo Nobel intend to spend US$30 million on establishing a new research and development facility in the US, as well as a new dispersion plant. Both will be for the benefit of the automotive refinishes business.
They i...
Following Slater Steel’s decision to restructure under Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection, followed by a net loss of $44 to $50 million in Q2 2003, they will undertake a significant restructure of their stainless bar...
Chemcraft Holdings of North Carolina (USA) have signed a letter of intent to acquire Polymer Solutions Inc of California, USA.
Under the agreement, Chemcraft will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding stock in Po...
Oxfordshire-based company, Hardide, have raised £1.6 million to manufacture a unique hard coating that has been designed to increase the life of steel and cemented carbide parts.
Properties of the coating includ...
Simula have announced that they have received another order for small arms protective inserts (SAPI) for the US Marines. The latest order is valued at $3.3 million and is to be delivered by September 2004.
This order ...
AZoM.com, the A to Z of Materials reached yet another milestone in July serving up the 2 millionth visitor session since launching on the web in September 2001.
With over 250,000 visitor sessions per month, AZoM.com i...
By Dr. Cameron Chai
8 Aug 2003
ABB supplied, engineered and commissioned a complete annealing and pickling line for the Ningbo Baoxin Stainless Company in China.
The remarkable part about it was that they were able to supply and commission the stee...
Alcoa and Kobe Steel have announced that they will terminate their joint venture aluminium plants that produce aluminium can stock used in beverage cans. This decision has been undertaken as the joint ventures did not me...
In August 2002, BASF and Dow Chemical Company announced that they would combine their research efforts and technologies pertaining to the manufacture of propylene oxide using hydrogen peroxide as a key ingredient. The te...
Bayer Polymers, a division of Bayer AG will cease production of the rubber cobalt-polybutadiene (CoBR) at its Bayer Buna GmbH plant in Marl. Production is scheduled to end in the first half of 2004.
The decision was t...