Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced full-year sales 2012 from continuing operations of CHF 6.038 billion compared to CHF 5.571 billion in the previous-year period. This corresponds to an increase of 8% in local ...
INVISTA Technologies S.à r.l. and Arzeda Corp. announce collaboration for the development of new technologies to enable novel bio-derived processes. The agreement brings together complementary technologies: INVISTA's capabilities ...
Scientists at Imperial College London are set to receive over £4.5 million of public funding to investigate how the 'super material' graphene can drive improvements in high-tech industries, such as aerospace design and medical ...
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BP is to establish a $100 million international research center known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or BP-ICAM. This center will lead research aimed at advancing the fundamental understanding and use of materials ...
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Research from the European Space Agency has resulted in an aircraft grade titanium and aluminum alloy that has properties similar to nickel superalloys but weighs half as much.The research was conducted by participants in the Intermetallic ...
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Evonik recently celebrated 50 years of making isophorone chemicals. The first plant for isophorone production commenced operation at the Herne site of Hibernia, as a predecessor company of Evonik Industries in 1962. Discovered as a ...
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced sales of CHF 1.923 billion in the third quarter 2012, up 3% compared to CHF 1.865 billion in the previous-year period. In local currencies, sales were 3% lower. In the third ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Chiromics have partnered to discover classes of small molecules against biological targets. The collaboration will leverage Chiromics' compound collections of accessible complexity, Chalis, hit recognition ...
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Clariant, a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, announced to expand the production capacity for Houdry dehydrogenation catalysts. The expansion will be achieved by a low double-digit million Swiss francs investment at its current ...
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New measuring technique'brings closer'improvements in solar fuel development. Prof.Bert Weckhuysen:"This research promises improvements to solar fuels. "Detailed molecular-scale measurements of a chemical reaction accelerated by ...
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US market for Conductive Polymers is projected to reach US$1.6 bln by the year 2017, as per Global Industry Analyst. Growth will be primarily driven by expanding new applications in advanced organic light emitting diode screens, sensor ...
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