Finland-based HKScan has signed a deal to sell its 50% stake in Saturn Nordic Holding to Danish Crown, which holds the remaining 50% holding in the firm. As per the agreed terms, the company will receive €180m in cash as well as a ...
About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
Henkel recently launched Loctite Safe Coat an anti-corrosion coating for the agricultural Sector in India. Henkel said that it launched Loctite Safe Coat to address the problem of corrosion of the rotors of submersible pumps used for water ...
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that the US imported a total of 3,172,000 net tons (nt) of steel in January 2014, including 2,409,000 nt of finished steel (up 26.6 ...
Tags: Steel Imports, finished steel, Mineral
Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) in France and EpiGaN nv in Belgium have claimed a record combination of specific on-resistance and breakdown voltage for a double heterostructure field-effect transistor ...
February 24, 2014 Sophie Langley Australian-based dairy businesses have coped differently with 'difficult' market conditions Food and beverage company Lion has announced its Dairy and Drinks business experienced “significant ...
Tags: Bega, Lion Dairy, WCB, RTD
lllustration: University of Colorado Boulder Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a model of a thermoelectric material that can insulate itself from heat transfers while still allowing electricity to flow. Such ...
Tags: Nanopillars, Thermoelectric Material, conducting electricity, voltage
The Solvay Group announces its 4th quarter and full year 2013 Business Review Q4 Highlights • Group net sales at € 2,417 m, down (5)% yoy, with volumes (1)%, prices (3)%, forex (4)% and scope 3%. Allowing for CER phase ...
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The Pew Research Center released this week its Pew Research Internet Project findings on how Americans view the Internet's impact on their lives and relationships. The findings are Part 2 of the think tanks's overall look at the "The Web at ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Rumors have been swirling since news broke this week of a possible meeting between Apple's top executive for acquisitions and the CEO of electric car maker Tesla. Citing a person familiar with the matter, The San Francisco Chronicle ...
Tags: iCar, new model, Google Maps, Tesla
Crocs Inc. reported a loss of $66.9 million in the fourth quarter, partly due to $49.2 million in non-recurring restructuring charges. Revenues increased 1.6 percent. Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Highlights: GAAP revenue ...
Tags: Restructuring Charges, Crocs, Revenue, GAAP
Lockheed Martin-Led team Lays Keel on nation’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship Friday, Feb 21, 2014 The Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the ...
Tags: Combat Ship, Gibbs&Cox, LCS 3, MMC
Jakobshavn Isbr (Jakobshavn Glacier) is moving ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean at a speed that appears to be the fastest ever recorded. Researchers from the University of Washington and the German Space Agency (DLR) measured ...
Tags: Jakobshavn Isbr, Fastest Glacier, Greenland, DLR
USDA left the U.S. ending stocks number for soybeans unchanged in its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, deflating hopes of what some market-watchers said could be a bullish jolt for that pit. At the ...
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has stated that its Hebei-based subsidiary Chengde Iron and Steel Co. exported a total of 51,000 mt of finished steel products in January of the current year, up 11 percent ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Mineral