In the second quarter of this year, order bookings in the German machine tool industry increased by one percent year on year, according to the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW). Given the dominance of the German industry in ...
Jim Peterson is Coatings for Industry's new industrial sales manager. Coatings for Industry has hired Jim Peterson as its Industrial Sales Manager. In this role, Peterson will be in charge of business development and will service existing ...
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James Tumbridge, intellectual property lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman, considers the implications of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) for Europe and whether it will help or hinder the UK’s electronics sector. The Unified ...
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Coatings for Industry (CFI), a direct-to-contractor supplier of industrial coating products, announces it has hired flooring industry veteran Jim Peterson as its Industrial Sales Manager. In this role, Peterson will be in charge of ...
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BASF is providing 22 chemical and mechanical engineering students the opportunity to spend this summer working as interns at its Geismar, Louisiana site -- the global company's largest manufacturing facility in North America. The interns, ...
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Texas Tech University researchers recently discovered that low-grade cotton made into an absorbent nonwoven mat can collect up to 50 times its own weight in oil. The results strengthen the use of cotton as a natural sorbent for oil, said ...
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Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply compact heat exchangers for the caustic evaporation plant of AkzoNobel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The ...
Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced that it is investing €46 million in the modernization of rolling mills, including €30 million for the rolling stand in V?lklingen and €16 million for the wire mill in ...
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Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy ...
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a structural supercapacitor that stores and releases electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the ...
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded ...
Duisburg, Germany-based steel and metal distribution company Kl?ckner & Co. has reported a net profit of €3 million for the first quarter this year, compared to the net loss of €16 million in the same quarter of the previous year. ...
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SSPC recently announced the approval of STMCOATECH as an authorized licensee for the SSPC Protective Coatings Inspector Program (PCI) in Turkey. Established in 2013, STMCOATECH is comprised of a team of highly experienced paint inspectors ...
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In the first quarter of this year, order bookings in the German machine tool industry increased by 10 percent year on year, according to the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW). Given the dominance of the German industry in the ...
Picodeon, a Finnish coating technology specialist announced that Fergus Clarke has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. Clarke brings over 25 years of global high technology management experience. His appointment comes at a point ...
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