Momentive Performance Materials Quartz Inc (MPM) has increased and expanded its manufacturing capacity of tantalum carbide coatings (TaC) in response to the growing demand for silicon carbide (SiC) power devices and the increased need for ...
Iron ore demand intensity in China will fall further amid continuous drops in steel market prices and lower steel outputs, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said in its monthly report published on its official website. Chinese ...
The Renault-Nissan Alliance sold a record 8,266,098 vehicles in 2013, propelled by record sales in the car group’s two largest markets, China and the United States. Renault-Nissan's 2013 calendar-year sales, which include sales of ...
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Chi-Huey Wong,professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute(TSRI),has won the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering contributions to the synthesis of compounds vitally important to biology and medicine. Sometimes ...
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Tegra Medical Tegra Medical announces the appointment of Mr.J.Mark King as its new Chief Executive Officer. BOSTON,MA,January 15,2014-Tegra Medical is very pleased to announce the appointment of Mr.J.Mark King as its new Chief Executive ...
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Belarus-based Byelorussian Steel Works (BMZ) has stated that the reconstruction of two important facilities has been finished at its steel melting complex. The electrical-arc furnace No. 1 and the powder-gas catching aggregate No. 1 have ...
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US-based WS Packaging Group is set expand its current business operations in Knoxville by opening a new location in the PBR Building, located at 10215 Caneel Dr. The company, which will also consolidate its Knoxville facilities to the new ...
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From bacteria to plants to humans,all organisms have mechanisms that they use to repair DNA damaged by ultraviolet(UV)light.This fundamental maintenance function is critical to our health because damaged DNA can lead to diseases such as ...
Omnicell,Inc.(OMCL)today announced that its Pandora®business analytics solutions are now available for customers in the Middle East markets.Pandora is a leading medication and supply automation analytics tool in United States hospitals ...
Norway's Statoil on Friday postponed its 2020 output guidance of 2.5 million barrels/day of oil equivalent by up to four years, as it reported a fall in fourth quarter output and an 8% cut in planned investment to $20 billion/year for the ...
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Alfa Laval–a world leader in heat transfer,centrifugal separation and fluid handling–has won an order to supply Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers to an integrated refinery-petrochemical complex in the Middle East. The ...
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Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. The near term supply remains tight and demand continues to look good, but China's celebrating their New Year, which could take them out of the market for a while. However, while there ...
Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors. Their work, published in Physical ...
The warming effect of human-induced greenhouse gases is a given, but to what extent can we predict its future influence? That is an issue on which science is making progress, but the answers are still far from exact, say researchers from ...
Experimentalists searching for strong structural materials have established that nanocrystalline metals, which have average grain sizes smaller than 100 nanometers, are stronger, harder and more resistant to fatigue than coarser-grained ...
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