Industrial lubricants market is full of options today. From a variety of automotive & industrial lubricants and specialty products & lube additives, all kinds of lubrication needs are met here. These are unique blends to enhance performance ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Industrial lubricants
As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the "building blocks" of matter at the nanometer scale. With this in mind, the recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology in which ICFO ...
Tags: Nano-Tweezers, Nano-Objects, nano
More tech companies are rolling out smartwatches, the latest in high-tech gear that, in terms of design, only gadget-lovers can appreciate. But now there is another option for consumers looking for both style and function. Unlike the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, smartwatches
Using graphite pencils to draw on regular paper, researchers can make some very inexpensive piezoresistive (PZR) sensors. Due to the piezoresistive effect, a sensor's resistance changes under an applied strain, allowing it to sense ...
Tags: Sensor, Electrical, Electronics
In our daily lives we tend to think of electrical conductivity as largely static: Copper is a good choice for conduction; clay is not. But heat up that copper wire, and electron conduction slows. Give a flake of that ceramic a good squeeze, ...
Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that, together with Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC), it has completed the acquisition of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, a steel processing plant in Calvert, Alabama, ...
Tags: Thyssenkrupp Steel, ArcelorMittal
Kazakh mining company Kazakhmys Plc has announced that in 2013 it recorded a net loss of $2.032 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.270 billion in 2012. In 2013, the company's revenues fell by 7.6 percent to $3.099 billion as compared ...
Taiwan's industrial production index in January this year decreased by 1.78 percent as compared to January 2013 and was down 2.93 percent month on month, according to the country's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Meanwhile, Taiwan's ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Metal Output
A widely growing segment in the pallet industry is the reuse and recycling of pallets, as most users have become quite comfortable in using such re-conditioned items as they are still in good condition plus they are less expensive. As you ...
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China-based steel manufacturing and trading group Delong Holdings Ltd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Delong Steel Singapore Projects Pte. Ltd. (DSL) has entered into a joint venture agreement with three Thai-based companies, ...
Tags: new steel mill, carbon structural steel, production capacity
Caustic soda or sodium hydroxide or lye is that chemical from which it is impossible to get rid of. May be only heard the name in your chemistry classes during experiments with bases, but just have a look on the labels of cleaning agents ...
Tags: Caustic soda, chlorine production, needs more precautions
As maddening as it is to see litter and other castoff remains of modern civilization in the wild, certain items can be can be a welcome find in a survival situation. One of the most enduring and useful trash items is the beer bottle, which ...
Tags: Glass Beer Bottles, Glass Blade
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 ...
The overall precision surface grinder is a very effective machine tool that is completely capable of very well working to a fine tolerance of plus or minus 0.002 millimetres, or to around plus or minus one ten thousandth part of an inch in ...
Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
Tags: Microfluidics, Microscopy, Nanoparticle, Protein