By John Russell, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By John Russell, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
The University of Akron has unveiled a multi-million dollar expansion of its polymer programme. The University of Akron has unveiled a multi-million dollar expansion of its polymer programme.
Byline: Brad Dawson When Judit Puskas received the chance to join the faculty at the University of Akron's Department of Polymer Science, there was no doubt it would be a good move. The bulk of the major tire and rubber makers have...
Nanotechnology in the Buckeye State Somewhere out there, some transcendent power seems to create out of the future, giving rise to the modern advances such as nanotechnology. The state of Ohio is currently a major player in the materials industry, with the polymer and plastics business developing into a...
A new material inspired by the skin of sea cucumbers goes from firm to flabby in minutes. The substance could find wide use in medicine--including as brain implants. Sea cucumbers tense up in seconds by linking the collagen fibers of their skin into a stiff net. Releasing the...
15-19 June 2008, Salerno, Italy The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS-24) will take place in Salerno, Italy, 15-19 June 2008. Scientists and engineers working in polymer processing and related fields are invited. See program online. The Polymer Processing Society was founded in...
Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land,Texas) will host Rumford IndustrialGroup , Incorporated RIG (Centerville, Ohio) as its special guest onIndustrialinfo.com Radio on Monday, November 19, 2007, as part of theweekly national broadcast of "Industry Today." RIG is the authorizeddistributor of Belzona products in the Great Lakes region. RumfordIndustrial Group, along...
Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land,Texas) will host RumfordIndustrial Group, Incorporated RIG (Centerville, Ohio) as its specialguest on Industrialinfo.com Radio on Monday, August 20, 2007, as part ofthe weekly national broadcast of "Industry Today." RIG is the authorizeddistributor of Belzona products in the Great Lakes region. RumfordIndustrial Group along...
Universal Technology Corp., Dayton, Ohio, is being awarded anindefinite delivery/indefinite quantity with cost-plus-fixed feecontract for $24,900,000. The Collaborative Research and DevelopmentProgram will provide basic, exploratory and development research inthe physical and engineering sciences.This effort will utilize uniqueAir Force Research Laboratory's Materials and ManufacturingDirectorate (AFRL/ML) equipment for thorough investigations andknowledgeable evaluations.The...
HOUSTON -- Solvay Chemicals, Inc. announces the appointments of Marcie Peters, Cameron Berry and Gary Waller to top positions at the company's Houston, Texas headquarters, effective July 1, 2007. Marcie Peters is appointed to the position of Vice President, Supply Chain, where she is responsible for Customer Services...
COLUMBUS, Ohio ENS — -->Tiny plastic fibers could be the key to future self-cleaning surfaces, transparent electronics, and biomedical tools that manipulate strands of DNA. In the June issue of the journal "Nature Nanotechnology," Ohio State University researchers describe how they created surfaces that, seen with the eye,...
M2 PRESSWIRE-19 June 2007-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Nanotube Adhesive Sticks Better Than a Gecko's FootC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18062007 Troy, N.Y., and Akron, Ohio -- Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long...
Does nanotechnology make sense for use in your composite products? If you'd like to find out without the expense and risk of major investment dollars, the University of Dayton Ohio Research Institute UDRI may be able to help. The research center has opened...
Byline: Frank Esposito It's taken the rest of the world more than 20 years to realize what Scott Rickert has been saying all along: Nanotechnology holds the future of plastics and other materials. Rickert co-founded Nanofilm Ltd. - a maker of polymeric...
Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land,Texas) will host http://www.rumfordgroup.com RIG (Centerville, Ohio) asits special guest on Industrialinfo.com Radio on Monday, April 16, 2007, aspart of the weekly national broadcast of "Industry Today." RIG is theauthorized distributor of Belzona products in the Great Lakes region. RIGhas sponsored this "Industry Today"...
Only in Greater Akron is so much happening in the fields of advanced manufacturing, polymers, plastics, composites, and metals. And Newsweek magazine named Akron a top-10 "hot-tech" U.S. city. In Greater Akron, government, businesses, academia, and other institutions work collaboratively to create unique growth opportunities for businesses. Akron and the...
ADAC AUTOMOTIVE INC. - The injection molder in Grand Rapids, Mich., named Jim Teets chief executive officer and president, succeeding Ken Hungerford, who remains chairman. Don Bittner was named chief operating officer. ASHLAND INC. - The specialty chemical company in Dublin, Ohio, named...
Researchers at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA, are concluding clinical trials in South America of nanofibre bandages that could heal wounds faster. Professors Daniel Smith and Darrell Reneker have produced ultrafine polymer fibres using electro-spinning while infusing them with chemicals that...
SUGAR LAND, Texas -- Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) will host Rumford Industrial Group, Incorporated (Centerville, Ohio) as its special guest on Industrialinfo.com Radio on Monday, February 12, 2007, as part of the weekly national broadcast of Industry Today. Rumford Industrial Group RIG is the authorized distributor of Belzona...
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