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| New Araldite® Methacrylate Adhesives Optimise Processing Flexibility |
31 January 2004 - Huntsman Araldite
A new line of surface-activated methacrylate adhesives, designed to increase customer bonding options, has been introduced by Huntsman Advanced Materials. |
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| ABB helps build the 'modern dream' with its intelligent building management system - i-bus EIB |
31 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
The new series revisits Tom Perry's ambitious self-build Cloud 8 project located in an area of outstanding beauty in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire. |
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| Food grade paste added to lubrication family |
30 January 2004 - Dow Corning - Molykote
Molykote has added an NSF H1-approved paste to its family of food and beverage lubricants. |
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| New innovative online game enabling customers to discover its amazing world |
30 January 2004 - 3M Europe
Global innovation technology company, 3M, today announced the launch of its' web-based game which combines mouse interaction with moving video. The new game demonstrates how 3M's diverse technologies and products touch nearly every aspect of modern life. |
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| Computer scientist designs immersive tools for designers |
29 January 2004 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
VE software tools have not been particularly intuitive or user friendly, and do not include high-level functionality, says Doug Bowman of Blacksburg, assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is addressing the problem by designing three-dimensional interaction techniques and a software framework explicitly targeted to design and construction. |
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| Willis elected auditor for Ashland Inc. |
29 January 2004 - Ashland Inc
J. Kevin Willis has been elected general auditor, and a corporate officer, by the Board of Directors for Ashland Inc., effective January 31, 2004. The announcement was made by James J. O'Brien, Ashland Inc. chairman and chief executive officer.
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| During earthquakes, mineral gel may reduce rock friction to zero |
29 January 2004 - National Science Foundation
Researchers have discovered a mineral gel created when rocks abrade each other under earthquake-like conditions. If present in faults during a quake, the gel may reduce friction to nearly zero in some situations, resulting in larger energy releases that could cause more damage. |
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| Millennium P650's fan-less TripleHead and Dual-display plus TV output support considered a must |
29 January 2004 - Matrox VITE
Audio professionals and musicians alike came in droves to the 2004 NAMM show in Anaheim for four days of workshops, seminars and product demonstrations. |
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| New 250-V N-channel TrenchFET Power MOSFETs |
28 January 2004 - Vishay Electronic
Siliconix incorporated, an 80.4%-owned subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., today released a trio of 250-V n-channel TrenchFET power MOSFETs that offer the lowest on-resistance available in the SO-8, PowerPAK SO-8, and D2PAK packages for this voltage rating. |
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| DSM Akulon PA6 said to outperform PA66 formulations on price/performance |
28 January 2004 - DSM Engineering Plastics
The choice of a polyamide (PA) thermoplastic for an engineering application, particularly between PA6 and PA66, often focuses on heat aging or strength and stiffness - and cost. Akulon PA6 from DSM Engineering Plastics offers performance equal to or better than many competitive PA66 formulations, with significantly better price/performance when processability is factored in. |
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| Great Lakes launches Firemaster BP411 brominated polystyrene flame retardant |
27 January 2004 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation
Great Lakes Chemical Corporation has launched Firemaster BP411, a brominated polystyrene flame retardant additive for electrical component applications.
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| GT Builds One-of-a-Kind Steam Skid for Pharmaceutical Testing |
27 January 2004 - Greene Tweed & Co Benelux BV
The pharmaceutical industry can't ignore quality, compliance and safety. Qualified testing is imperative for all products and materials used in pharmaceutical processes. |
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| Sustained technology development promises effective explosive detection systems to curb terrorism |
27 January 2004 - Frost & Sullivan
This analysis, part of the Technical Insights Homeland Security Alert, provides a detailed assessment of technologies in use and under development for explosive detection systems. |
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| Carnegie Mellon engineering students design product to help Kennametal improve customer productivity |
27 January 2004 - Carnegie Mellon Universtity
Imagine a device that would enable an amazing $200-per-day production savings. Well, a Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering project class imagined just such a device and designed a product that could save time and money for Kennametal, Inc. customers. |
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| ESAB offers endless marathon pac |
26 January 2004 - ESAB Group
With launch of the ESAB Marathon Pac Endless system, the term uninterrupted welding takes on a new meaning. Precision butt welding of the wire ends of Marathon Pacs in series makes it possible to provide a genuinely continuous supply of wire to an automated welding process. As a result productivity is enhanced as down-time for wire change and lost production following run-out is eliminated. Run-out weld defects and wire wastage resulting from 'just-in-case' wire changeover are also avoided. |
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| DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ revolutionises design potential for laminated glass
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26 January 2004 - DuPont Engineering Polymers
DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions has commissioned a series of graphic works from Michael Young, one of the most exciting Young British Designers of his generation. |
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| New pharmacological strategies could help smokers quit |
26 January 2004 - Yale University
'Different smokers respond to different medication treatments because of different biological subtypes of nicotine dependence,' said lead author, Tony George, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. 'For example, nicotine replacement therapy doesn't seem to work as well for women as it does for men. Women may respond better to Buproprion or Naltrexone. In this article, we review all the relevant medications and weight the evidence for and against their use as a smoking cessation aid.' |
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| New type of Nanotube made of gold or silver created at the Weizmann Institute |
26 January 2004 - Weizmann Institute of Science
Weizmann Institute scientists have created a new type of nanotube built of gold, silver and other nanoparticles. The tubes exhibit unique electrical, optical and other properties, depending on their components, and as such, may form the basis for future nanosensors, catalysts and chemistry-on-a-chip systems. |
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| Hair dye use increases risk of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma |
23 January 2004 - Yale University
'An increased risk of NHL was found only among women who began using hair-coloring products before 1980,' said principal investigator Tongzhang Zheng, associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health at Yale School of Medicine. 'Women who used darker permanent hair coloring products for more than 25 years showed the highest increased risk. We also found that the risk of NHL associated with hair coloring product use appears to vary based on subtype of the disease.' |
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| Negotiating the Supply Chain Minefield new booklet on managing component obsolescence |
23 January 2004 - Component Obsolescence Group (COG)
New guidance on managing the issue of component obsolescence to maximise supply chain efficiency has been issued by the Component Obsolescence Group, in the third of its series of information booklets. According to COG, if a component within a piece of equipment becomes obsolete, failure to get suitable replacement parts quickly or at all could incur considerable costs. It could mean that the equipment has to go out of service or parts of it may need to be re-designed, and in extreme cases, it could significantly damage an organisation's reputation and customer relationships. |
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| Harris to Lead Composite Polymers, Ashland Specialty Chemical Company |
23 January 2004 - Ashland Inc
Theodore 'Ted' L. Harris has been named vice president, Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, and general manager, Composite Polymers, according to Mike Shannon, senior vice president, Thermoset Resins, Ashland Specialty Chemical, a division of Ashland Inc. |
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| Ashland Inc. names Baker vice president, Global Operations and Engineering |
23 January 2004 - Ashland Inc
Ashland Inc. Senior Vice President and Group Operating Officer Gary A. Cappeline announced today that Larry A. Baker has been named vice president, Global Operations and Engineering, effective January 26. Baker will be based in Dublin, Ohio, and will report to Cappeline.
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| Two new steels at BAUMA |
23 January 2004 - SSAB Oxelosund
Visitors at BAUMA2004 can get acquainted with two new products from SSAB Oxelösund, the structural steel plate WELDOX 800 and the wear plate HARDOX HiTuf.
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| Georgia Tech Engineers test new flare decoys on military aircraft |
23 January 2004 - Georgia Institute of Technology
Because these missiles vary in their schemes for rejecting decoys, researchers are trying to develop a one-size-fits-all flare pattern. They are running thousands of computer simulations to examine as many flare pattern combinations as possible. Then they test the best ones in the field. |
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| Next Generation Perfluoroelastomer - Chemraz® 639
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22 January 2004 - Greene Tweed & Co Benelux BV
Greene, Tweed's Semiconductor Group continues to provide the semiconductor wafer processing industry with innovative seal solutions with the introduction of a new perfluoroelastomer - Chemraz® 639. |
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| Hydro sells share in Snøhvit |
22 January 2004 - Hydro Aluminium
Hydro has entered into an agreement to sell its 10 percent stake in production licences PL064, PL077, PL078, PL097, PL099, PL100 and PL110 in the Norwegian offshore sector, including the Snøhvit gas field development. The buyer is Statoil ASA. |
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| Glass Polymer - the alternative to glass? |
22 January 2004 - Eastman Chemical Company
Glass Polymer looks and feels like glass and it offers differentiation on the shop shelf because of its extended design possibilities. |
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| Machines still kill |
22 January 2004 - HSE InfoLine
Following the latest fatal accident at a large paper baler, the Health and Safety Executive has issued a warning to all industries of the dangers of clearing machinery blockages or carrying out running repairs without proper isolation procedures and / or interlocking. |
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| Estrogen makes the brain more vulnerable to stress |
21 January 2004 - Yale University
This finding may explain why stress-related mental illnesses occur at least twice as often in women as in men. It also may explain why the discrepancy in prevalence begins in women at puberty, continues through the childbearing years, and then declines in postmenopausal years, said Becca Shansky, a graduate student in neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study to be published in the March issue of Molecular Psychiatry. |
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| ABB launches new comprehensive pressure transmitter range |
21 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
ABB's new FieldIT 2600T pressure transmitter series offers one of the most complete ranges of pressure measurement equipment currently available. A vast selection of options, including basic model types, materials, working pressure, fill fluids, remote seal options and communications standards, enables the 2600T series to offer a host of customisable pressure transmitter solutions for a host of applications. |
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| New complete guide to nine model pastillation range
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21 January 2004 - Sandvik Materials Technology UK
With details of all nine Rotoform models plus an introduction to the principle behind this 1,000+ installation pastillation technology, Sandvik Process Systems' latest brochure is its most comprehensive granulation guide to date.
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| PSA Peugeot Citroën chooses Akulon PA6 for its manifolds |
21 January 2004 - DSM Engineering Plastics
For the production of two manifolds, PSA Peugeot Citroën has selected Akulon PA6 for offering superior heat ageing resistance, better weldability and easier processability compared to PA66. |
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| Staff Consultant to Provide Complex Technical Assistance to Customers |
20 January 2004 - Ashland Inc
Ashland Casting Solutions has named 35-year casting industry veteran, Tom Wade, to the position of Senior Principal Consultant. In this new role, Wade will provide customers around the world with complex technical assistance, including capability assessments, process optimization and tooling design. |
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| Fruit bar marketer pears up with ExxonMobil Chemical to package unique new product |
20 January 2004 - ExxonMobil Chemical Co
You might find this product in any number of exotic locations, from the camouflage rucksack of a young American marine, to a storage bin aboard the Space Shuttle or even the coat pocket of a mountain climber high atop the Himalayas. It's not a high-tech compass or a new, multi-purpose cell-phone; it's what Gorge Delights advertises as an all-natural fruit bar that uses ExxonMobil Chemical's BICOR® and OPPalyte® oriented polypropylene film to achieve an astounding two-year shelf life. |
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| Study shows that perception is tied to movement |
20 January 2004 - Weizmann Institute of Science
Our fingers run over surfaces; our eyes are in constant motion. This is all a part of 'active sensing,' key principles of which have now been uncovered by a Weizmann Institute study. |
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| Weizmann Institute scientists reveal key part of nerve regeneration mechanism |
20 January 2004 - Weizmann Institute of Science
A new study conducted by Weizmann Institute scientists has now uncovered a key process leading to the regeneration of peripheral nerves. Nerves in the peripheral nervous system (any part of the body aside from the brain and spinal cord) are capable of regenerating, though often they do so poorly or slowly. |
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| Our cells are resourceful when it comes to copying DNA, even when the DNA is damaged |
20 January 2004 - Weizmann Institute of Science
Millions of cells divide every day in our bodies to replace those that wear out. To be able to do so, their DNA must be copied. A new Weizmann Institute study shows that the molecules in charge of the task of copying DNA, called DNA polymerases, are able to improvise in order to achieve this crucially important goal. |
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| Lighter seed bags to reduce agricultural handling problems |
20 January 2004 - HSE InfoLine
There should be fewer bad backs among workers in agriculture when an agreement to switch to smaller bags for seed comes into effect. The agreement was initiated by the Health and Safety Commission's Health in Agriculture Group. |
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| IMEC extends collaboration with ASML to immersion lithography |
20 January 2004 - ASML Netherlands B.V.
IMEC, Europe’s largest independent microelectronics and nanotechnology research center, extends its long-term collaboration with ASML to immersion lithography and will launch an industrial affiliation program on 193nm liquid immersion lithography that will run in parallel with its 157nm lithography IIAP. |
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| Shadows original, found by Prof. Ray Carney, gets world premiere at Rotterdam Film Festival |
20 January 2004 - Boston University
The never-released original version of pioneer independent filmmaker John Cassavetes’ first feature film has been found after a 17-year hunt by Boston University film studies Professor Ray Carney. The 16 mm rendition made in 1957-58 has been presumed destroyed. A second version, with two-thirds of the original footage replaced with new material, was released in 1959. The newly found original “Shadows” gets its world premiere this weekend at the Rotterdam Film Festival. |
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| Cabot breaks ground on new fumed silica facility in Jiangxi, China |
20 January 2004 - Cabot Corporation
Cabot Corporation today broke ground on its new world-class fumed silica manufacturing facility located in Jiangxi province, China. The facility is a project of Cabot Bluestar Chemical (Jiangxi) Company Ltd., a joint venture between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cabot (China) Limited, and Bluestar New Chemical Materials Co., Ltd., a part of the China National Chemical Group. Cabot is investing approximately US $30 million to construct the plant scheduled for completion in the first half of 2006. |
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| Ice, a Hot research topic |
19 January 2004 - Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
There are 18 different types of ice and one of them was only recently discovered in a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. This project was done at the University of Innsbruck and it got a lot of attention because it precisely determined the temperature and pressure required for creating a wide variety of ices. This allows the production of ultra-pure ice for subsequently analysing its structure. |
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| Carnegie Mellon Scientists use atomic force microscopy to discover effects of experimental Alzheimer's drugs |
19 January 2004 - Carnegie Mellon Universtity
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have used atomic force microscopy to shed light on molecular scale processes underlying the formation of insoluble plaques associated with Alzheimer's Disease. Results of this work suggest that AFM could lead to a better understanding of the disease process and help guide the search for new diagnostic and treatment approaches. The report will be published in the Jan. 23 issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology and appears online at www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions/journal/00222836. |
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| ExxonMobil Chemical introducing new wave of achieve Metallocene Polypropylenes |
19 January 2004 - ExxonMobil Chemical Co
ExxonMobil Chemical Company is introducing a new wave of Achieve™ metallocene polypropylenes that will benefit many markets, beginning with nonwovens. These new products extend the reach of the Exxpol™ technology that in 1995 produced the first metallocene-catalyzed polypropylenes. |
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| ADAM-8000 EAutomation I/O for today and the future |
18 January 2004 - Advantech UK
The ADAM-8000 represents low-cost and future-oriented automation solutions. From centralized controllers to distributed controllers, from PLC to PC-based control, from the best connections in distributed structures up to integration into the IT world and more: the ADAM-8000 optimizes I/O systems and makes them efficient and successful. Users just deploy different CPU modules with fieldbus connection, and they can easily implement PLC control system or PC-based control system without changing any ADAM-8000 I/O or remoteI/O modules. |
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| Advantech unveils a new front-end access industrial control PC |
18 January 2004 - Advantech UK
Advantech, a leading industrial ePlatform provider, announces the release of the Advantech industrial control PC- the ATM 4000 Series. The ATM- 4023, a brand-new front-end access and wiring industrial computing chassis platform, is a trailer-made flagship computing platform for Test and Measurement Market. |
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| SCADA/HMI software provides collaboration & Web browser connectivity for control systems |
18 January 2004 - Advantech UK
One of the most powerful , integrated collections of automation tools has become even better with the release of Advantech's A-Studio V5.1 SCADA/HMI development system. |
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| Successful commissioning of a new bumper assembly cell for Stadco |
17 January 2004 - Stadco
Stadco, the leading European supplier of body-in-white stampings and sub assemblies to the automotive industry, has announced the successful commissioning of a new bumper assembly cell at its 'just in time' facility located adjacent to Jaguar's Halewood plant. |
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| Robot programming time reduced from weeks to days, or even hours. |
16 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
ABB introduces TeachSaver, a new software product that can dramatically reduce robot-programming time from weeks to days, or even hours. |
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| New Solutions Centre & Robot Training Centre deliver the ABB Experience |
16 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
ABB has invested over £300,000 in key new customer service facilities at its Automation Technologies Division operations centre in Milton Keynes, as part of a strategy of continuous development of services to users of its industrial robot technology. |
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| Advice for designing reliable nanomaterials |
16 January 2004 - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Stronger or tougher? For designers of advanced materials, this tradeoff may complicate efforts to devise efficient methods for assembling nanometer-scale building blocks into exotic ceramics, glasses and other types of customized materials. 'Not all properties may benefit from microstructural refinement, so due caution needs to be exercised in materials design,' writes the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Brian Lawn in the January issue of Journal of Materials Research. |
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| Corus helps advance Road Safety |
16 January 2004 - Corus Automotive
Corus, the international metals company, has developed a roadside barrier system for elevated highways and bridges designed to meet the requirements of a new European standard that redefines the standard for the containment of vehicles in the event of a crash, and gives far greater consideration to vehicle occupant protection.
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| Detjen to lead Ashland Inc. global ERP project |
16 January 2004 - Ashland Inc
Larry L. Detjen has been named an Ashland Inc. vice president and selected to lead the implementation of the SAP® software as the global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for Ashland Distribution Company, Ashland Specialty Chemical Company and The Valvoline Company, wholly owned divisions of Ashland Inc. The announcement was made by Gary A. Cappeline, Ashland Inc. senior vice president and group operating officer, to whom Detjen will now report. |
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| Thermoplastic elastomer has strength to handle positive and negative auto engine air flows
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16 January 2004 - DSM Engineering Plastics
A new offering in Arnitel thermoplastic elastomer ether ester block copolymer (TEEE) compounds from DSM Engineering Plastics, Arnitel PB582-H, combines excellent temperature resistance, strength and flexibility for automotive engine airduct needs.
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| Borealis prepares for new Borstar polyethylene plant and new products |
16 January 2004 - Borealis A/S
Today Borealis broke ground for its new 350,000 tonnes per year polyethylene plant at its petrochemical site at Schwechat, Austria. Scheduled to come onstream towards the end of 2005, the new plant, to be built by Tecnimont, will utilise Borealis’ proprietary Borstar technology. It will replace two old LDPE lines and a HDPE line, and will focus on LLDPE. |
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| APAC, Inc. sells asphalt terminal in North Carolina to Associated Asphalt |
15 January 2004 - Ashland Inc
APAC, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ashland Inc., announced today that it has sold its asphalt storage terminal in Greensboro, N.C., to Associated Asphalt, headquartered in Roanoke, Va. The announcement was made by Garry M. Higdem, president of Ashland Paving And Construction, Inc., the parent corporation of the APAC group of companies. The sale price was not disclosed.
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| General Meeting approves capital reduction and demerger |
15 January 2004 - Hydro Aluminium
An extraordinary General Meeting of Norsk Hydro ASA today approved the Demerger Plan for the separation of the business area Agri as a listed company named Yara International ASA.
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| ABB's crisp response restores power to Walkers Snack Food production line |
15 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
A 3am call to an ABB duty engineer was the start of a series of rapid response events following the shutdown a production line at Walkers Snack Foods in Leicester, restoring power and production in very short order. |
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| M&G Plans for Capacity Expansions for 2004 in Latin America
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15 January 2004 - M&G Group
The M&G group today announced it will increase the production rate at its facility in Altamira , Mexico to 1200t/day (438kt/y – 965MM lbs/y) by early Q2 2004. |
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| Working together for safe health services |
15 January 2004 - HSE InfoLine
The Health and Safety Executive and the General Medical Council today signed a Memorandum of Understanding which codifies their commitment to working together in the interests of patients and everyone involved in delivering health services. |
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| TripleHead upgrade kit permits users to drive three displays and features fan-less design for silent operation |
15 January 2004 - Matrox VITE
Matrox Graphics Inc., is pleased to announce a new TripleHead upgrade kit for the Millennium P650 graphics card, extending the single display and DualHead capabilities of this 64 MB graphics board to revolutionary TripleHead Desktop mode. The new upgrade kit includes a DVI-to-dual HD-15 cable and TV output connector, along with a special utility for enabling TripleHead and Dual-display plus TV output functionality with the Millennium P650. This unprecedented solution offers audio professionals tremendous support by providing desktop space to extend multiple audio tracks across one, two or three displays and a fan-less design for silent operation, a crucial component in sound production. |
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| Coffee-shop research probes understanding of politics |
15 January 2004 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
When Katherine Cramer Walsh picked up a coffeepot and started pouring java for the regulars in a Michigan coffee shop one morning, she began three years of intimate research that revealed how ordinary people make sense of politics through casual conversation. |
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| Scientists combine chemistry and Bioremediation to Clean Cadmium From Soil |
15 January 2004 - DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised a way to combine chemical treatment with 'pollutant-busting' bacteria to remove cadmium from contaminated soil. |
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| Double pulsar find to test relativity |
14 January 2004 - CSIRO
An international team of scientists working in the UK, Australia, Italy and the USA has made an astronomical discovery that has major implications for testing Einstein's general theory of relativity. |
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| New 0805-size surface-mount power metal Strip resistor matches 0.25 W rating of 1206-size resistor |
14 January 2004 - Vishay Electronic
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today announced the release of a new 0.25 W surface-mount Power Metal Strip resistor with a power rating that matches that of larger 1206 size resistors while offering superior overload and pulse-handling capability. |
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| Possible new form of Supersolid matter |
14 January 2004 - National Science Foundation
Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University are announcing the possible discovery of an entirely new phase of matter: an ultra-cold, 'supersolid' form of helium-4. |
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| Key Akulon appointment for DSM Engineering Plastics |
14 January 2004 - DSM Engineering Plastics
DSM Engineering Plastics has announced the appointment of Peter van Paridon to the post of Business Manager Akulon. |
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| Moving up to a new generation of helicopters |
13 January 2004 - Hydro Aluminium
From January 2005 the most modern helicopters available will be used for passenger transport to and from Hydro’s North Sea platforms. |
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| Bayer MaterialScience Increases MDI Capacity |
13 January 2004 - Bayer MaterialScience AG
Bayer MaterialScience, a subgroup of Bayer AG, plans to increase capacity for the polyurethane raw material MDI (diphenyl methane diisocyanate) at its sites in Tarragona, Spain, and Baytown, Texas. The production of aniline, a base product for the manufacture of MDI, in Antwerp, Belgium, is to be expanded at the same time. |
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| Tmax a new generation of circuit breakers from ABB |
13 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
ABB's new generation of Tmax moulded case circuit breakers is designed to cover virtually any low voltage application up to 250 A in a range of just three frame sizes T1,T2,T3 with a common frame depth of 70 mm which alllows standardisation of fixing supports. |
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| Globus Toolkit 3.0 delivers Grid standards |
13 January 2004 - DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grid computing takes a major step forward today with the first implementation of emerging standards known as the Open Grid Services Architecture. The Globus Project issued its alpha release of the Globus Toolkit 3.0, a set of open-source software and services whose earlier versions have transformed the way on-line resources are shared across organizations. |
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| Lasers have been harnessed to an entirely new purpose: slicing cheese |
12 January 2004 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lasers do everything these days, from removing tattoos to playing music on compact discs. Now, in the great dairy state of Wisconsin, lasers have been harnessed to an entirely new purpose: slicing cheese. |
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| RTP Company introduces wet-grip thermoplastic elastomers |
12 January 2004 - RTP Company
Specialty compounder RTP Company introduces additional new grades to its RTP 6000 Series of functional thermoplastic elastomer compounds. These compounds, which have been designated RTP 6011, are the latest addition to RTP Company's growing range of TPE compounds and are designed specifically for improved wet-grip performance. |
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| Mussel-powered proteins stick to Teflon, even under water |
12 January 2004 - National Science Foundation
Researchers have discovered that iron in seawater is the key binding agent in the super-strong glues of the common blue mussel, Mytilus edulis. This is the first time researchers have determined that a metal such as iron is critical to forming an amorphous, biological material. In addition to using the knowledge to develop safer alternatives for surgical and household glues, the researchers are looking at how to combat the glue to prevent damage to shipping vessels and the accidental transport of invasive species, such as the zebra mussel that has ravaged the midwestern United States. |
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| Motor vehicle repair businesses now just one click away from health and safety advice |
12 January 2004 - HSE InfoLine
About 40,000 businesses involved in the repair or recovery of motor vehicles are being encouraged by the Health and Safety Executive to bookmark its Motor Vehicle Repair website as one of their Favourites so that they are only one click away from advice and guidance on health and safety. |
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| DSM expands TPE-E capacity |
12 January 2004 - DSM Engineering Plastics
DSM Engineering Plastics expands Arnitel co-polyester capacity by 25% in response to growing global demand |
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| Sandvik and Philips cooperate in shaver development
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12 January 2004 - Sandvik Materials Technology UK
Innovation and new product development are the lifeblood of consumer product manufacturers and where competition is fierce, market share is the critical measure of success. |
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| DSM Somos® Introduces NanoForm™:ProtoComposites™ and nanotechnology combined for new stereolithography applications
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12 January 2004 - DSM Somos
DSM Somos®, an innovation leader in the development of rapid prototyping materials, introduces the first composite stereolithography material to incorporate nano-particle technology.
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| Capillex CP helps Emery Colours achieve high and consistent levels of print quality |
09 January 2004 - Autotype International
Stoke-on-Trent based Emery Colours, one of the UK’s leading designers and producers of high volume transfer prints, is using Capillex CP from Autotype on its fully automated print systems for the production of transfers for candles and mugs. |
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| Website in Chinese for DSM materials and applications |
09 January 2004 - DSM Engineering Plastics
DSM Engineering Plastics (DEP) has launched a material and applications database in Chinese, powered by MBase (http://www.m-base.de). |
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| Nomination Committee proposes Yara board |
09 January 2004 - Hydro Aluminium
Norsk Hydro ASA will arrange an Extraordinary General Meeting on 15 January 2004. On the agenda is the demerger of Norsk Hydro ASA, where Hydro's Board proposes that the business area Agri is established as a separately listed company named Yara International ASA. |
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| ABB launches standard drive for easy installation and use |
09 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
A new range of intuitive, standard drives, designed to be sold off-the-shelf with few optional extras, has been launched by ABB. ABB's class of standard drives is rated from 0.75 to 355 kW, 200 and 400 V. It is targeted at standard applications, such as pumps, fans and conveyors, and has been designed for easy use and accessibility. |
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| Studies of baker's yeast may lead to new drugs to fight HIV |
08 January 2004 - National Science Foundation
Studies on common baker's yeast have led to the discovery of what may be a long-sought mechanism in the life cycle of retroviruses, including the human immunodeficiency virus. Knowing the details of this step in the infection process could help pinpoint targets for new classes of drugs to fight HIV. |
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| New findings pose a challenge for cold dark matter theory |
08 January 2004 - National Science Foundation
'The universe is always more complicated than our cosmological theories would have it,' says Nigel Sharp, program officer for extra-galactic astronomy and cosmology at the National Science Foundation. Witness a collection of new and recently announced discoveries that, taken together, suggest a considerably more active and fast-moving epoch of galaxy formation in the early universe than prevailing theories had called for. |
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| Spring house brain cancer study finds no association with workplace |
08 January 2004 - Rohm & Haas Co
An 18-month epidemiological case-control study of 12 malignant brain cancers and 3 benign tumors among approximately 6,000 Spring House employees over the past 40 years has found no statistically significant association with workplace chemicals, according to the study's director, Dr. Arvind V. Carpenter, Director of Epidemiology and Global EHS and Sustainable Development. An outside panel of experts has reviewed the study design, exposure assessment procedure and analytical techniques as well as the study results. |
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| Construction industry 'Healthy Handling' initiative |
08 January 2004 - HSE InfoLine
Some of the biggest causes of ill-health and injury in construction are the focus of a Health and Safety Executive initiative that will culminate in an inspection blitz of sites throughout London, East and South East England during March 2004. The initiative, titled 'Healthy Handling', is being brought to the attention of clients, designers, planning supervisors and contractors across the region. |
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| New graphics technology features fan-less three screen support for maximum audio workstation productivity |
08 January 2004 - Matrox VITE
Matrox Graphics Inc. invites you to see the unveiling of a unique fan-less TripleHead graphics card tailored specifically to audio professionals at the NAMM Show in Anaheim. This new graphics technology, based upon the Millennium P650 graphics card, offers audio professionals the unprecedented ability to run their software across one, two or three displays, in complete silence, dramatically enhancing mixing and sequencing productivity. |
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| Morgan to Upgrade Moroccan Rod Mill
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07 January 2004 - Morgan Construction Company
Morgan Construction Company has received a contract from Groupe Sonasid, headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco, to upgrade the company's double-strand rod mill.
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| Higdem named president, Ashland Paving And Construction, Inc. |
07 January 2004 - Ashland Inc
Garry M. Higdem, P.E., formerly with Granite Construction (Watsonville, Calif.), has been named to succeed David J. D'Antoni as president of Ashland Paving And Construction, Inc., the parent corporation of the APAC group of companies, the nation's premier transportation construction enterprise. The announcement was made by James J. O'Brien, chairman and chief executive officer of Ashland Inc., APAC's parent company.
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| Veterinary College researchers seeking to clone mad cow disease resistant cattle strains |
07 January 2004 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
As federal and state government officials grapple with strategies to limit the economic and health risks associated with the troublesome discovery of the nation's first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease, Drs. Will Eyestone and Bill Huckle are conducting important research with the little understood molecules believed to cause the deadly brain-wasting disease. |
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| ASML, Government Institutions & Technology leaders join to promote trans-Atlantic innovation and business |
07 January 2004 - ASML Netherlands B.V.
ASML Holding NV today announced its participation in High Tech Connections, a first-of-its-kind initiative to promote technological exchanges and strategic alliances between American and Dutch high technology companies. ASML’s role is that of a founding member and anchor company in this unique forum that brings together governments, academia and corporations to drive innovation and identify business and investment opportunities. |
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| RAD FCD-155 CLE Terminal Mux deploys with TranSwitch EtherMap-3 |
06 January 2004 - RAD Data Communications Ltd
TranSwitch Corporation today announced that its highly integrated EtherMap-3 Ethernet over SONET/SDH mapper has been incorporated into RAD Data Communications’ |
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| Distrupol trains to ensure delivery on its promise |
06 January 2004 - Distrupol
Distrupol has contracted with KSi, a leading UK industrial sales training firm with global experience. |
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| Medical Alloys Now Sold Online Through Carpenterdirect.com™ |
06 January 2004 - Carpenter Technology Corporation
Carpenterdirect.com, the e-commerce site of Carpenter Technology Corp. announced today at the Medical Design and Manufacturing-West trade show (Booth #2061) that it has expanded its online catalogue to include several popular medical alloys in bar form. |
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| Flowserve becomes exclusive Greene, Tweed Distributor for WR Components in North America |
06 January 2004 - Greene Tweed & Co Benelux BV
Flowserve Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of fluid motion and control products and services, announces an alliance agreement for Greene, Tweed's WR® line (non-metallic engineered wear components) to be available to Flowserve's served aftermarket. |
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| 50-year-old magnetic mystery solved; quantum structure obeys classical physics |
06 January 2004 - Ohio State University
Ohio State University physicists and their colleagues have demonstrated for the first time a type of magnetic behaviour that was predicted to exist more than 50 years ago. |
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| ABB FBP (FieldBusPlug) devices provide a universal solution for all fieldbus systems |
06 January 2004 - ABB Limited (Group Headquarters)
ABB's new FBP(FieldBusPlug) concept is designed to bring simplicity and flexibility to fieldbus applications by allowing devices to be quickly connected to any bus for a 'plug and produce' solution. Instead of having to offer multiple variants to suit a large number of industrial fieldbuses, such as Profibus DP, DeviceNet, AS-i and so on, ABB is now able to offer control equipment such as its new FBP motor controllers and starters in one standard version, with a neutral fieldbus-independent interface. All the installer has to do is attach the appropriate ready-made bus-specific FBP connection cable to suit their fieldbus. |
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| New materials testing catalogue published |
05 January 2004 - Lloyd Instruments
To meet growing demands for advanced materials testing solutions in manufacturing, research and quality control, Lloyd Instruments has produced a new Materials Testing Solutions catalogue for easy ordering from its vast choice of test instruments and accessories. |
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| New method tracking single atoms may lead to improved drug design |
05 January 2004 - Weizmann Institute of Science
Until now, scientists studying the workings of ultra-microscopic forms have had to rely on the scientific equivalents of still photos, something like trying to fathom driving by looking at a photograph of a car. |
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| Metastasis of colon cancer cells reversed in vitro |
05 January 2004 - Weizmann Institute of Science
Weizmann Institute scientists have succeeded in reversing the metastatic properties of colon cancer cells, in vitro. The findings, published in the Nov. 24 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology, uncover a key process involved in the metastasis of colon cancer cells and raise hopes that target-specific drugs might be devised to prevent, or reverse, the invasive behavior of metastatic colon cancer cells. Colon cancer is the second most prevalent type of cancer in men and third in women in the Western world. |
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| Premature babies grow to lower IQs, fewer risks |
04 January 2004 - Case Western Reserve University
Babies weighing less than two pounds at birth are more likely to have lower IQs and fail to graduate from high schools or enroll in four-year colleges as young adults, but they are less likely to use alcohol or drugs or become pregnant. |
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