AOC has today announced a price increase of €100 per ton for its entire composites portfolio sold in Europe and Middle East. The price increase will take effect for all new deliveries after 15 November 2020 or as soon as contracts allow, the company said. ‘The pricing of our key raw materials has been steadily […]
Sauber Engineering AG has received two new certifications for additive manufacturing (AM). ISO 9001 and DIN SPEC 17071 for metal and plastics production were issued by TÜV SÜD as part of a combined audit, its first in the field of AM. According to the company, DIN SPEC 17071 is the first guideline for quality-assured processes […]
Chemical company Evonik and Siemens Energy have been contracted to build a pilot electrolysis plant that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The pilot plant, located in Marl, Germany, will also use electricity from renewable sources and bacteria. It is part of the Rheticus I and II research projects, which are sponsored by the […]
Italy PM company Mimete Srl has launched two new iron-based powders: standard Duplex MARS F51 and Super-duplex MARS F53. According to the company, the powders are suitable for parts in oil and gas, power generation and aerospace applications. They can also be used in a range of additive processes, coating and hot isostatic pressing (HIPping). […]
We showed that the natural shell structure could be disrupted in a gentle way and that the new, higher surface area material had some useful propertiesFrancesca Kerton Researchers from the Memorial University of Newfoundland have produced a spongey form of calcium carbonate from mussel shells that could find uses as components in biomedical materials or in energy […]
If you own a Tesla, you might be accustomed to waiting a long time when your car needs a repair. You might have also noticed there aren’t a lot of independent shops able to take on the job. But that could start to change soon, thanks to a groundbreaking new “right-to-repair” law Massachusetts voters approved […]
Nine samples of caesium-based halide perovskite with different compositions, from pure CsPbBr2I (left) to pure CsPbI3 (right). Image: H. Näsström/HZB. Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) in Germany have printed and explored different compositions of caesium-based halide perovskites (CsPb(BrxI1−x)3). Over a temperature range from room temperature to 300°C, they observed structural phase […]
Cara Hoffman was a young reporter in 1994 when she covered an explosion at a chemical plant in Buffalo, New York. She remembers a toxic plume coating nearby lawns in white. Gardens wilted. Pets died, and goldfish floated lifeless in bowls next to open windows. Without an evacuation plan, people in the neighborhood went on […]
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, or ICARDA, fled their beloved gene bank in Tel Hadia, 20 miles south of Aleppo. Syria’s civil war, which had broken […]
As much as the ideal of the “intelligent enterprise” speaks to a company’s prowess with Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and robotic process automation (RPA), the intelligence with which industrial manufacturing organizations manage another asset, their workforce, will be just as important to their success in the next normal. Noting […]