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Arkema speeds up its development in Asia and in green chemistry with the closing of the acquisition of Hipro Polymers and Casda Biomaterials

02-03-2012 Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Chinese companies Hipro Polymers, a producer of specialty biosourced polyamides 10.10, and Casda Biomaterials, a producer of sebacic acid processed from castor oil.«This acquisition represents a large development potential for Arkema. It offers signif ... more

Carl Zeiss opens new customer office in South Korea

02-03-2012 Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significant ... more

AkzoNobel invests €80 million to supply new Suzano pulp mill in Brazil

02-03-2012 AkzoNobel is planning to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp Chemical Island facility in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, will supply the Suzano Maranhão pulp mill. This is AkzoNobel's second largest investment i ... more

Yara acquires controlling stake in Burrup Holdings

02-03-2012 Yara acquired 16% of Burrup Holdings Limited (BHL) for USD 143 million, increasing its ownership share in the company to 51%. Concurrently, Apache Energy has acquired the remaining 49% of the shares in BHL, and signed a new shareholders' agreement with Yara."We are pleased to secure majorit ... more

Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures

02-03-2012 Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. Above that, it polymerizes, i.e. builds larger molecules or structures. “This is very surp ... more

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Photonics Innovation Award for WITec

02-02-2012 WITec has just received the Photonics Prism Award 2011 for the development of TrueSurfaceTM Microscopy. This internationally respected product innovation award recognizes cutting-edge products that break conventional ideas and improve life through photonics and is presented each year by SPI ... more

Hamilton Storage Technologies Breaks Ground on New Headquarters Facility

02-01-2012 Hamilton Storage Technologies announced that it has broken ground on a new 52,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, Mass., more than quadrupling its space. The facility will serve as the East Coast hub for Hamilton Company.According to Matt Hamilton, vice president, the new facility will ho ... more

Guinness World Record: X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie

02-01-2012 It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the famous Guinness Book of World Records lists an interval of a mere 50 femtoseconds between two frames for FLASH. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second, meaning that the t ... more

The first atomic X-ray laser

01-27-2012 A group of scientists headed by Nina Rohringer from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) realized the first X-ray laser based on atoms at the Californian research centre SLAC. Using neon atoms, they generated ultra-short X-ray bursts of unique colour purity. In many cas ... more

World's best metronome enables slow-motion pictures of atoms and molecules

01-26-2012 The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion pictures from the world of molecules and atoms, scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institu ... more

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Arkema speeds up its development in Asia and in green chemistry with the closing of the acquisition of Hipro Polymers and Casda Biomaterials

02-03-2012 Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Chinese companies Hipro Polymers, a producer of specialty biosourced polyamides 10.10, and Casda Biomaterials, a producer of sebacic acid processed from castor oil.«This acquisition represents a large development potential for Arkema. It offers signif ... more

Carl Zeiss opens new customer office in South Korea

02-03-2012 Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significant ... more

AkzoNobel invests €80 million to supply new Suzano pulp mill in Brazil

02-03-2012 AkzoNobel is planning to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp Chemical Island facility in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, will supply the Suzano Maranhão pulp mill. This is AkzoNobel's second largest investment i ... more

Yara acquires controlling stake in Burrup Holdings

02-03-2012 Yara acquired 16% of Burrup Holdings Limited (BHL) for USD 143 million, increasing its ownership share in the company to 51%. Concurrently, Apache Energy has acquired the remaining 49% of the shares in BHL, and signed a new shareholders' agreement with Yara."We are pleased to secure majorit ... more

Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures

02-03-2012 Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. Above that, it polymerizes, i.e. builds larger molecules or structures. “This is very surp ... more

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Coperion secures majority stake in PELL-TEC

01-20-2012 With effect from January 1, 2012, Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, has acquired a majority stake in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology GmbH, Niedernberg, Germany. Established over ten years ago, PELL-TEC supplies pelletizing systems to customers operating in the plastics processing and recycling indu ... more

Price increase of Arkema's Evatane EVA copolymers

01-06-2012 Arkema announces an 80 €/MT price increase across its Evatane® range (High Content Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Copolymers) effective February 1st 2012.    This price increase has become necessary as the cost of raw materials is again rising in January 2012 whereas EVA market prices seriously det ... more

Huntsman Acquires Turkish Polyurethanes Systems House

01-04-2012 Huntsman Corporation announced that it has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., an MDI-based polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey. As a result of the deal, EMA will become part of Huntsman’s Polyurethanes division and will be known as Huntsman-EMA. EMAs’ two majo ... more

Rubber Excellence Partnership with DIK and Qingdao University

12-22-2011 A Rubber Excellence Partnership was announced by representatives of LANXESS, the German Institute of Rubber Technology DIK (Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie e.V.) of Hanover, Germany, and Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China, at the LANXESS Green Rubber Day in Beij ... more

Sustainability as an Economic Driver – Ceresana Analyzes the Booming Bioplastic Industry

12-09-2011 The market research institute Ceresana Research expects the global bioplastics market to reach revenues of more than US$2.8 billion in 2018 – corresponding to average annual growth rates of 17.8%. High expectations will be placed on the bioplastic industry in future. Bioplastics are suppose ... more

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Hamilton Storage Technologies Breaks Ground on New Headquarters Facility

02-01-2012 Hamilton Storage Technologies announced that it has broken ground on a new 52,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, Mass., more than quadrupling its space. The facility will serve as the East Coast hub for Hamilton Company.According to Matt Hamilton, vice president, the new facility will ho ... more

WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG: Changes in the Management

01-12-2012 Konrad Kreuzer is leaving WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG. Konrad Kreuzer had been managing the company since 2003 as its sales manager. Managers Jürgen Liebsch and Peter Wanner will now manage WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG together with Helmut Hirner, CEO. The duties an ... more

RETSCH relocates to new, larger premises

01-10-2012 RETSCH, the leading manufacturer of laboratory instruments for the preparation and characterization of solids in the context of quality control, has built new headquarters on a 25,000 m2 estate in Haan-Gruiten. Several million Euros have been invested in an office building with application ... more

Agilent Technologies Names Gooi Soon Chai Senior Vice President, Order Fulfillment and Supply Chain

12-20-2011 Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Gooi Soon Chai has been appointed senior vice president, order fulfillment and supply chain, effective immediately. In this position, Gooi now leads a new, centralized organization created to help Agilent leverage its strength in manufacturing, procu ... more

Starna Scientific appoints Nathan Hulme as Director

11-15-2011 Starna Scientific, has appointed Nathan Hulme as a Director to help guide the company’s expansion plans.  Hulme’s main responsibilities will include assisting in setting out an overall business strategy for the company that will address communications with customers and dealers as well as i ... more

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DEKRA expands materials testing in Germany

01-20-2012 The international expert organisation DEKRA is acquiring all shares of the testing company INCOS GmbH Ingenieurbüro in Ingolstadt. In doing so, DEKRA significantly expands its portfolio in Germany for non-destructive testing (NDT) of materials. INCOS has locations in Ingolstadt and Nurember ... more

BIS Group strengthening its position in Finland with the acquisition of successful E/I&C specialist

12-19-2011 Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services Group (BIS Group) is acquiring Are Oy Industrial Services (Are IS), a specialist in electronic instrumentation and control technology (E/I&C) in Finland. The company has around 230 employees and generates annual revenues of some EUR 25 million. The selle ... more

ITT Completes Acquisition of YSI Incorporated to Enhance Its Water Instrumentation Business

09-08-2011 ITT Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of YSI Incorporated, forming a water-focused analytics business with annual revenue of approximately $300 million. YSI is a leading developer and manufacturer of sensors, instruments, software, and data collection platforms for ... more

Sartorius closes 2010 with strong gains in sales revenue and earnings

02-09-2011 Sartorius successfully closed the year 2010. Sales revenue and earnings substantially surpassed the year-earlier figures. Financial guidance for the Group, which was raised during the course of 2010, was met and even exceeded for some targets. For the current fiscal year as well, manage ... more

Bilfinger Berger acquires ATG

01-26-2011 Bilfinger Berger has acquired British industrial service provider ATG, expanding its capacity in measurement, control and automation engineering in the United Kingdom. ATG generates an annual volume of €25 million and employs 250 people. The company had previously been owned by its mana ... more

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DEKRA: Change in management of Business Unit Industrial

02-02-2012 At its meeting on 26 January 2012, the Supervisory Board of DEKRA SE appointed Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Ivo Rauh (52) as a new member of the Management Board of DEKRA SE. Rauh will assume responsibility for the business unit Industrial effective 1 April 2012, taking over from Mark Thomä (43), wh ... more

Rockwell Automation Reports First Quarter 2012 Results and Reaffirms Guidance

01-31-2012 Rockwell Automation, Inc. reported fiscal 2012 first quarter sales of $1,473.9 million, up 8 percent from $1,365.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. Acquisitions contributed 1 percentage point to the increase and currency translation reduced sales by 1 percentage point. Net incom ... more

DEKRA streamlines international sales activities

01-25-2012 DEKRA is reorganising how it works with its major customers globally. Erik Wakolbinger (44) will lead Group-wide key account management (KAM) and coordinate DEKRA’s sales activities across the Automotive, Industrial and Personnel business units. DEKRA is thus setting a course for stronger o ... more

GEA sees strong order intake in fourth quarter

01-13-2012 The engineering group GEA confirmed at an investor conference in New York that order intake had proved stronger in Q4 than in any other quarter in 2011. “2011 was a very good year for GEA. Order intake continued strong until the end of the year, after already in November we had reported sev ... more

ABB wins cable order from Statoil for world’s largest offshore gas platform

01-13-2012 ABB has won an order worth around $25 million from Statoil to supply AC subsea power cables to the world’s largest offshore gas platform, Troll A, about 70 kilometers off the west coast of Norway. The order was booked in the fourth quarter of 2011. ABB’s scope of supply includes 69 kilomete ... more

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