One simple choice to improve a facility's sustainability profile and obtain LEED credits is to improve indoor air quality through the use of near-zero VOC floor coatings. Indoor air quality is often much worse than outdoor air quality due to toxins c...
Shanghai, China - Sept. 13, 2011 - Recently, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) announced in Berlin that it has entered into an agreement to purchase an equity stake in INPRO, a joint venture (JV) dedicated to collaborative innovation in auto...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13, 2011 - PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) announced recently that it has signed a letter of intent with Harsha Exito Engineering Private Limited (India) to establish a 50-50 joint venture for the manufacture and sale of fiber glass rein...
The Trumpf Group has installed its 20,000th TruFlow laser, a 7 kW high-powered CO2 laser that has been integrated in a TruLaser Cell 1100 at the Fischer Group in Germany, where it will be continuously welding tubes and profiles.
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Many people have inventive and innovative ideas. In most cases though, these ideas don''t progress any further than a rough design. Part of the reason may be because some people are still unaware of the potential of rapid prototyping technology to ef...
JEC Composites has announced the third staging of its Innovative Composites Summit (I.C.S.), to be held in Singapore from 18 to 20 October 2011, as part of its global forums and conferences program showcasing the latest business intelligence and tech...
A team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) was awarded two grants totaling $1.75 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative of Semiconductor Research Corp. to create powerful, ...
Researchers at the US-American National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) set out to discover whether alternative lighting methods could provide more effective lighting and improve safety in the mining environment.
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BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands - August 23, 2011 - Xenoy iQ* resin from SABIC''s Innovative Plastics strategic business unit - chosen by Ford for the pedestrian safety system of its 2011 C-MAX multipurpose vehicle (MPV) - has helped the automaker ea...
The Netherlands, 24 August 2011 - At the forthcoming A+A safety and security trade fair which takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from October 18-21, a number of companies will be introducing protective gloves featuring the latest Dyneema® D...
Facilities in Europe seeking a faster, greener and less invasive way to coat their concrete floors have some attractive new solutions available, thanks to DSM's recent expansion of UVolve® Instant Floor Coatings products for the region. The line ...