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| Los Alamos instruments to prospect for water on the moon |
30 December 2001 - DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sometime in the next month or so, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists will gather information bearing on a major question impacting the future of space colonization: does the moon have water? |
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| World's nothernmost wind farm - Havøygavlen in Finnmark |
29 December 2001 - Hydro Aluminium
Norsk Hydro, Nuon and Norsk Miljøkraft have agreed to build a wind farm at Havøygavlen in the municipality of Måsøy in the county of Finnmark, Norway. For this purpose a new company has been established: Arctic Wind A.S. Nuon owns 53,5% of the shares, Norsk Hydro 41,5% and the developer of the windfarm, Norsk Miljøkraft 5%. Havøygavlen will be the world's northernmost windfarm. |
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| Launch of Somos® Raven™ 7620 at Euromold 2001
The latest line of pioneering products by DSM Somos® |
23 December 2001 - DSM Somos
DSM Somos®, leading technology innovators in the rapid prototyping (RP) materials industry, announced the pre-commercialization of its latest innovation in ProtoFunctional® stereolithography resins: Somos® Raven™ 7600 series, at the EuroMold fair in Frankfurt, Germany (November 28th - December 1st 2001). |
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| Steel-and-epoxy superpipe for oil industry |
22 December 2001 - SSAB Tunnplåt AB
A pipe for high pressure conditions with a service life ten times that of alternative pipes, and which can be 70 per cent cheaper, has been developed by Ameron International, one of the world's leading manufacturers of glass fibre-strengthened epoxy pipes. The pipe, Bondstrand SSL, has been constructed with a completely new design. The significantly improved qualities have been achieved by embedding several layers of thin ultra high-strength steel in glass fibre-strengthened epoxy. This gives an extremely strong and corrosion-resistant pipe for the most demanding environments, such as those found in the oil industry. |
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| Fluent announces the release of GAMBIT 2.0 and G/Turbo CFD meshing software |
21 December 2001 - Fluent
Fluent Inc., world leader in computational fluid dynamics software, announces the release of GAMBIT 2.0, its general-purpose preprocessor for CFD analysis.
G/Turbo is an integral part of GAMBIT 2.0 and is designed specifically for meshing turbomachinery applications. 'GAMBIT 2.0 continues to allow engineers easier access into the CFD world,' says Erling Eklund, Fluent's GAMBIT Product Market Manager. 'With improved CAD integration and enhanced meshing tools, GAMBIT 2.0's features set new industry standards in meshing software,' adds Eklund. |
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| Yale study finds integrating medical care into mental health services overcomes barriers |
21 December 2001 - Yale University
Yale investigators have found that integrating primary medical care as part of mental health services for patients with serious mental illness results in significant improvements in their health status and access to medical care. |
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| New compact 150-mA LDO voltage regulators feature low ground current, low noise, and fast turn-on |
21 December 2001 - Vishay Electronic
Siliconix incorporated, an 80.4%-owned subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology has announced the launch of the Si91842 and Si91844, two new 150-mA low-noise low dropout regulators featuring exceptionally low dropout and ground current in a compact package. The new devices are intended for use in battery-powered systems, including cell phones, wireless handsets and modems, PDAs, notebooks, pagers and digital cameras. |
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| Barlo Plastics Announces Product Extension Of Spectar Sheet At Euroshop 2002 |
21 December 2001 - Quinn Plastics
Barlo Plastics exhibits Spectar Sheet during Euroshop 2002, one of the major brands in its broad product family. |
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| Autotype's Finer-Art Film |
21 December 2001 - Autotype International
To enable the development of a unique fine art printing process, London Contemporary Art required a stencil system that would give excellent definition/resolution and a low ink build. The solution has been found: Autotype's new low-profile stencil system - CP Capillex.
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| Antibiotic may be a potential therapy for MS |
21 December 2001 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
A common antibiotic, long used to treat infections in humans, may have potential as a treatment for multiple sclerosis, a devastating disease of the central nervous system, according to a new study published today, Dec. 21, in the Annals of Neurology. |
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| System provides industry-leading productivity for 100nm volume manufacturing on 300mm Wafers |
21 December 2001 - ASML Netherlands B.V.
ASML today announced the first shipment of its dual-stage ArF (193nm) lithography system for 300mm wafer processing. The system was shipped this month to a leading global semiconductor manufacturer. |
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| Rohm and Haas Company begins production of its new low monomer adhesives family |
20 December 2001 - Rohm & Haas Co
Rohm and Haas Company has begun production of its new extremely low monomer adhesives family, the ROBONDSF 3000 series, in Bremen, Germany. The first commercially available product will be ROBOND SF 3100/CR190. |
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| Eastman reaches agreement to close Düsseldorf manufacturing site |
20 December 2001 - Eastman Chemical Company
Eastman Chemical Company has reached agreement with the Works Council of Eastman Chemical Jaeger GmbH & Co. KG to close its manufacturing site in Düsseldorf, Germany. |
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| Power TIG 160/255 DC gives power to industry |
20 December 2001 - ESAB Group
ESAB's Power TIG 160 and Power TIG 255 DC power sources are the ideal choice for industrial use and for advanced repair and maintenance, offering ease of use with low power consumption. The Power TIG range is based on inverter technology, which gives the benefits of lightweight, compact, easily transported equipment with the added benefit of low power consumption. |
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| 3D Systems and DSM Desotech Sign Joint Venture Agreement |
19 December 2001 - DSM Somos
3D Systems Corp. and DSM Desotech Inc. today announced the companies have formed OptoForm LLC, a joint venture that will focus on the development and commercialization of new equipment and materials for rapid tooling and direct and indirect in-line manufacturing processes. |
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| New car drivers exposed to toxic emissions |
19 December 2001 - CSIRO
Research by CSIRO has found high levels of air toxic emissions in new motor vehicles for up to six months and longer after they leave the showroom. Dr Steve Brown, head of CSIRO's Air Quality Control research says, 'Just as air inside our homes and workplaces is often much more polluted than the air outside, so sitting in a new car can expose you to levels of toxic emissions many times beyond goals established by Australia's National Health & Medical Research Council'. |
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| Gamma camera help find land mines |
19 December 2001 - CSIRO
A research team from CSIRO Minerals is developing a novel 3D imaging camera as part a worldwide push for faster and safer ways to clear land mines. The United Nations estimates that 26,000 people are killed or maimed each year by land mines. Of these, 80 per cent are civilians, especially women, children and farmers in developing countries. |
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| New cClass of antibiotics proves effective against resistant anthrax strains |
18 December 2001 - Emory University
Drugs within a new class of antibiotics called ketolides are effective in the laboratory against some strains of anthrax that are naturally resistant to erythromycin and other antibiotics, according to research by Emory University scientist Keith P. Klugman, M.D. Dr. Klugman presented the results of his research on Tuesday in Chicago at the 41st Interscience Congress of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. |
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| Deep space flight ends, but exploration continues |
18 December 2001 - DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
NASA's Deep Space 1 carrying PEPE, or plasma experiment for planetary exploration, an instrument designed and built at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be put to rest today after a successful and event-filled mission in space. |
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| International Conference Success For Autotype Speaker |
18 December 2001 - Autotype International
A conference hosted by DuPont Teijin Films was heralded as a great success by the 35 selected delegates who attended the event in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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| Sandvik Steel extends stock of instrumentation tubing
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17 December 2001 - Sandvik Materials Technology UK
Already claiming one of the largest stocks of seamless stainless steel tubes available to the hydraulic and instrumentation industries, Sandvik Steel has further extended its range with the addition of new sizes and a new highly corrosion resistant steel grade. Over 100 tube sizes and eight different steel grades can now be supplied.
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| Hydro will exit Utkal |
17 December 2001 - Hydro Aluminium
Hydro Aluminium has informed its partners in Utkal Alumina International Ltd.that they wish to exit from the project. |
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| FLUENT 6.0 is released, Fluent Inc.'s Flagship CFD software offers more advanced features, rigorously tested |
17 December 2001 - Fluent
Fluent Inc., announces the release of FLUENT 6.0. This major new offering from Fluent is built on its robust and time-tested, unstructured CFD platform, with particularly notable leaps forward in the modeling of engineering problems involving multiphase physics, rotating equipment, and combustion. Highly advanced tools, which enable the user to create a moving/deforming mesh for analysis of in-cylinder engine performance, also make their debut as a beta capability in this version. |
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| FLUENT 6.0 is released, Fluent Inc.'s Flagship CFD software's newest version |
17 December 2001 - Fluent
Fluent Inc., announces the release of FLUENT 6.0. This major new offering from Fluent contains specific features geared to the accurate simulation of common aerospace engineering challenges, such as flow-induced noise, engine cooling, anti-icing, and turbine engine modeling. Major leaps forward in overall ease-of-use put this CFD code in a class by itself in its ability to work efficiently and integrate with the rest of the design and analysis desktop. |
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| FLUENT 6.0 is released, Fluent Inc.'s Flagship CFD software offers virtual flow prototyping for the HVAC industry |
17 December 2001 - Fluent
Fluent Inc., announces the release of FLUENT 6.0. A new set of features in this version specifically address the needs of HVAC engineers using CFD to build and test virtual prototypes of their designs for fans, pumps, compressors, indoor air quality, duct and environmental flows, heat exchangers, appliances, and many other applications. |
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| Scientists may have found a better way to sample bone calcium balance in humans |
17 December 2001 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Adapting a technique used routinely by geologists to measure the chemical composition of rocks, scientists may have found a better way to sample bone calcium balance in humans. |
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| New tool helps curb oil cost blowouts |
17 December 2001 - CSIRO
CSIRO scientists have developed a new tool to help Australian and international oil companies drill more stable petroleum wells, and cut the cost blowouts associated with collapsing wellbores. |
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| Microbe genes help scientists reconstruct animal origins |
17 December 2001 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Without the help of fossils or any other record from the distant past, scientists have identified what they believe represents a common ancestor of all animals on Earth, a microscopic organism with key genetic traits that, until now, have been found only in true animals. |
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| Aquaporins, the perfect water filters of the cell |
14 December 2001 - Max Planck Society
Water regulation plays a crucial role in the human body. Water flux between cells is facilitated by proteins embedded in the membrane, so-called aquaporins. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen succeeded to unravel the nanomechanics of these universal water channels of cell membranes at atomic resolution using extensive computer simulations. |
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| New technology provides real-world data for distance athletes |
14 December 2001 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professional athletes, including cyclists and distance runners, soon will have a powerful new tool to predict energy expenditure and performance during a race, thanks to a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Saris Cycling Group of Madison. The technology also has potential medical applications, including helping to treat obese children and adults and cardiac patients. |
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| Bayer Rubber Expands Its Polymer Distributorship with Rhein Chemie Corporation |
14 December 2001 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
The Rubber Business Group of Bayer Corporation is pleased to announce a cooperative agreement with Rhein Chemie Corporation. Effective January 1, 2002, Rhein Chemie will become a distributor for Bayer's rubber polymer product line in addition to its rubber chemicals. |
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| Bayer Makrolon® Polycarbonate Resin Helps Traffic, Trolleys, Turtles |
14 December 2001 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
Airplanes, streetcars, trucks and automobiles - all types of heavy traffic - will cross lanes marked by Smartstud low-profile light-emitting diode (LED) lane markers. That's why Smartstud manufacturer, Harding Traffic, needed a virtually indestructible material to protect the lane markers' internal electronic components. |
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| Yale survey finds crying a common experience among medical students & points to its potential value |
13 December 2001 - Yale University
In an essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Yale School of Medicine faculty member reported that the vast majority of Yale medical students cried as a result of emotional encounters with patients during their first year of clinical rotations and that the experience of strong emotions can have an important impact on their education as physicians. |
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| Brain abscess believed linked to tongue piercing |
12 December 2001 - Yale University
An abscess detected in the brain of a young woman was believed caused by an infection resulting from having her tongue pierced one month earlier, two Yale physicians have reported. |
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| Male & female physicians refer women for cardiac diagnostic procedure less often than men |
11 December 2001 - Yale University
In the first large national study on the topic, Yale researchers found male and female physicians were more likely to refer men than women for cardiac catheterization, a diagnostic procedure used to assess blood flow to the heart, after a heart attack. |
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| Boston University researchers locate where Northern Forests store carbon |
11 December 2001 - Boston University
Boston University researchers and their NASA and European colleagues have mapped for the first time the location of forest areas in the northern hemisphere that serve as major 'carbon sinks', specific areas where carbon from the atmosphere is stored in the wood of trees. The researchers also determined that for the past 20 years forests in America, Europe, and Russia have been storing nearly 700 million metric tons of carbon per year. The carbon, taken in by trees as carbon dioxide, comes primarily from the burning of fossil fuels and amounts to about 12 percent of the yearly carbon emissions caused by industrial activity around the world. |
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| Multi-pollutant control system launched by BOC and Beaumont Environmental at Medical College of Ohio |
11 December 2001 - BOC Gases
In one of the first-ever multi-pollutant systems put on-line, BOC’s award-winning LoTOxTM technology has helped to significantly cut smog-forming pollutants from three power boilers at the Medical College of Ohio in a project funded by the Ohio Coal Development Office. |
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| Lightning over oceans more plentiful than expected |
09 December 2001 - DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Storms over the oceans generate more lightning than previously realized, and researchers may be able to use this finding in studies of atmospheric energy distribution mechanisms linked to climate and weather effects. |
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| New brain cells in adult cortex are unlikely |
07 December 2001 - Yale University
There is no evidence that adult primates are able to create new neurons in the neocortex, the most sophisticated part of the brain, Yale researchers have found in a study published in the December 7 issue of Science. |
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| Swift Plasma Cutting Extends to Ductwork Cutting |
07 December 2001 - ESAB Group
ESAB Automation's successful Swift plasma cutting machine can now be used for ductwork cutting and fabrication applications. This breakthrough is the result of the availability of new Camduct software designed specifically for heating and ventilation ductwork manufacturing. Ductwork can be internally lined or externally covered with insulating material and the Swift is still able to provide high quality cutting at high speed using the plasma cutting technique. |
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| Plasma cutting now comes in one handy package |
07 December 2001 - ESAB Group
ESAB is now able to offer the many benefits of high speed, high quality Plasma Cutting in a lightweight portable package operating from just a single-phase 230v power supply. Fully self-contained, the Handy Plasmarc 125 portable cutting package has its own built in mini-compressor, taking away the need for bulky external cylinders or separate compressed air supply. Easy to use, thanks to its fixed output of 11A at 30% duty cycle, Handy Plasmarc will quality cut carbon steel up to 3mm thick and sever up to 4.5mm thick, with machine protection being provided by an overtemperature warning light. |
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| Hydro and NutriSI in production joint venture |
07 December 2001 - Hydro Aluminium
Norsk Hydro, the oil and energy, light metals and agri group, has signed a 50/50 JV Agreement with the Belgian company NutriSI (owned 50% by SQM of Chile and 50% by Rotem of Israel) to establish a joint production company for speciality fertilizer. |
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| AZ-20 used in cooling system for ice rink |
07 December 2001 - Honeywell Specialty Materials Europe
Refrigerant gases supplier Dehon Service Nederland (Son, NL), cooling installation contractor GTI Post Koudetechniek ('s-Hertogenbosch, NL) and HFC refrigerant producer Honeywell Fluorine Products (Heverlee, B) have teamed up to build a high-performance, energy-efficient, environmental-friendly and safe cooling installation for the new 400 metre speed-skating track and hockey rink in Breda (NL). |
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| Plastics and Processing Additives divests Lead Stabilisers business |
07 December 2001 - Akcros Chemicals
Following the announcement in August of this year, regarding its intention to discontinue its lead stabilizers and related rigid plastic applications business, Akzo Nobel’s business unit Plastics and Processing Additives, which trades as Akcros Chemicals, has signed an agreement for a Management Buy-Out (MBO) by a team of key personnel on December 3, 2001. |
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| Half-tone printing made easy with Autotype’s new stencil film |
06 December 2001 - Autotype International
Quality half-tone printing just got a lot easier with the introduction of CP Capillex,' states leading stencil manufacturer Autotype International Ltd. This unique stencil system controls the two most critical stencil variables - stencil profile and flatness, to produce a controlled, ultra thin stencil which dramatically reduces ink build without sacrificing quality. |
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| Russian Perspective, Soviet economic interests in Austria 1945-1955 |
06 December 2001 - Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The history, including the economic history, of the post-war period in Austria is very well researched, at least from a western perspective. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of the Russian archives, which had previously been inaccessible, were opened. |
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| New ASML TWINSCAN AT:850B joins family of high resolution lithography systems |
05 December 2001 - ASML Netherlands B.V.
ASML today introduced the industry's first KrF (248nm) Step & Scan 300mm dual stage lithography system capable of 110nm resolution. The TWINSCAN AT:850B(tm) features Carl Zeiss Starlith(tm)850 advanced projection optics with a numerical aperture of 0.80, which is the highest NA available in a KrF system. |
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| Autotype wins Excellence Award |
05 December 2001 - Autotype International
Autotype International's Capillex CP team, based in Wantage, Oxfordshire, and Schaumburg Illinois, has been awarded the prestigious David Swormstedt, Sr. Memorial Award by the Academy of Screen Printing Technology for 'It's the PITS: Pile Height in Process-Colour UV Printing, Part 2', an article published in the December 2000 issue of Screen Printing Magazine.
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| Long-term treatment with antiepileptic medications can improve quality of life for people with epilepsy |
05 December 2001 - Yale University
Early improvements in health-related quality of life for epilepsy patients were sustained over several years of treatment with the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam, according to new research presented today by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the 55th American Epilepsy Society annual meeting. |
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| New 150-mA LDO voltage regulators |
04 December 2001 - Vishay Electronic
Two new 150-mA low-noise lowdropout regulators designed for use in battery-powered equipmentsuch as cell phones, wireless handsets and modems, PDAs, notebooks, pagersand digital cameras were announced today by Siliconix incorporated, an 80.4%-owned subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology. |
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| Synetix exclusive global distributor for Great Lakes antimony trioxide |
04 December 2001 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation
Synetix has been appointed as exclusive global distributor for Great Lakes' catalyst grade antimony trioxide for use in polyester manufacture. |
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| New BOC temperature control system to aid fine chemicals industry |
04 December 2001 - BOC Gases
The process, which was designed and installed by the company for use at Rhodia ChiRex’s general purpose plant at its Holmes Chapel site, will assist in the control of reaction temperatures during chemical manufacture, which is a critical parameter in many ‘current good manufacturing practice’ pharmaceutical production processes. |
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| BOC takes glass melting technology to the next level |
04 December 2001 - BOC Gases
BOC unveiled its patented BOC Convective Glass Melting system at the recent Conference on Glass Problems, in Urbana, Illinois. CGM is a radical new approach to glass melting that significantly increases furnace capacity and improves glass quality. It can also be used to extend the life and improve the performance of ailing furnaces. |
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| LSND strengthens evidence for neutrino oscillations |
04 December 2001 - DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
A collaboration of university scientists and researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory has published the final paper from the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector experiment. The results, based on six years of data collection, strengthen previously published, but controversial LSND results and provide further evidence of neutrino oscillation and mass. |
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| Putting the squeeze on long-life orange juice |
04 December 2001 - CSIRO
New research is aiming to bring fresher-tasting, additive-free orange juice with a long refrigerated shelf-life to Australian tables. Food Science Australia, in partnership with US-based Flow International Corporation, is researching the use of high pressure processing to kill the food spoilage microbes such as yeast, bacteria and mould that cause off-flavours in aging orange juice. |
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| Akcros Chemicals Invests in the Production of Solid Stabilisers |
03 December 2001 - Akcros Chemicals
Long established in medical and food related applications, significant improvements in performance of the INTERLITE range now make them suitable for more demanding technical applications in plasticised PVC. |
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| New Sandvik medical steel chosen by JRI
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03 December 2001 - Sandvik Materials Technology UK
Sandvik's Bioline High-N (high nitrogen) stainless steel for use in orthopaedic implants represents a breakthrough in the production of a steel, which meets or exceeds all international specifications for micro-cleanliness and other properties but which is also extremely cost competitive.
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| The waiting is over and the secret revealed |
03 December 2001 - Georgia Institute of Technology
'Ginger,' or 'IT,' is the Segway Human Transporter, a two-wheeled, one-person, battery-powered scooter whose inventor claims will revolutionize transportation and cityscapes much like automobiles did in the early 20th century. The Segway is the latest invention from Dean Kamen, a prolific 'idea man' who holds roughly 100 U.S. patents. His other inventions include the heart stent used by Vice President Dick Cheney and an innovative wheelchair that can climb stairs. |
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| Leaf blower's tank relies on DuPont Zytel to show fuel level, withstand rugged use |
03 December 2001 - DuPont Engineering Polymers
Durability, good looks, and 'see-through' practicality come together in a fuel tank for STIHL BR 420 Series backpack blowers and sprayers for professional landscapers. The tank is made from a new translucent, glass-reinforced grade of DuPont Zytel nylon resin. It consists of two injection molded parts, an upper and lower body. They are vibration-welded around their perimeter to produce a leak-resistant seam. The tank material, Zytel FE5322, provides the required combination of translucence, strength, stiffness, toughness and fuel resistance, according to Jorge Theresin, Stihl's production planning and control manager. |
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| Design News selects Moog's new digital interface valve as best fluid power product of 2001 |
03 December 2001 - Moog Controls
Moog’s Digital Interface Valve was selected as a winner by an independent panel of judges reviewing products in the fluid power industry for 'ingenuity and innovation.' Winners were selected in six other industrial categories as well and are all featured in the December 3, 2001, issue of Design News. |
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| New way to naturally enrich cow's milk for improved nutrition |
02 December 2001 - BTG
BTG International announced today that it has signed a commercialisation agreement with the University of Guelph to market the rights to a novel technology for naturally enriching cow's milk with an omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid or DHA. This nutrient is an essential part of a healthy diet for people of all ages but is particularly important during the early stages of a child's development. |
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| Sensor could increase safety of eye surgery |
01 December 2001 - DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Precision is crucial during eye surgery, a slight miscalculation could result in partial blindness and damage to the retina. But a new sensor being developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could reduce those risks by alerting surgeons to the location of critical retinal tissues. |
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