Monthly Archives: March 2016

‘Key Indian Equity Indices End Flat On Profit-booking’

IANS via Yahoo Maktoob News Mar 17 04:32 am 

Mumbai March 17 IANS Key Indian equity indices which opened higher on Thursday and further surged in line with global cues particularly after the US Federal Reserve kept its key interest rates unchanged ended the day39s trade on a flat note as investors booked profit.

Tongda Group Achieves Remarkable Results In 2015

ACN Newswire via Yahoo! New Zealand Finance Mar 16 09:30 am 

Turnover Rises by 26.8 to HK6074.1 Million Net Profit Increases by 40 to HK702.8 Million HONG KONG Mar 16 2016 - ACN Newswire - Tongda Group Holdings Limited quotTongda Groupquot or the ...

New Fuel Materials Could Make Nuclear Reactors Safer

Newswise Mar 16 10:19 am 

Nuclear power is an important energy source and is essential as a clean energy to reduce current carbon emissions from fossil fuels. However many people feel the risk of nuclear accidents does not outweigh the benefits associated with nuclear energy.

SPE ANTEC 2016 Plenary Sessions Will Focus On Future Of Plastics.

ThomasNet Mar 16 06:09 am 

Taking place in Indianapolis IN from May 2325 ANTEC 2016 will feature 3 plenary sessions Manufacturing and 3D Printing State of the Industry May 23 State of the Plastics Industry Outlook for 2016 and Beyond May 24 and Platform for Novel Lightweight Automotive Composite Design May 25. According to ANTEC 2016 technical conference chair Donna S. Davis these plenary sessions quotwill ...

2017 Acura NSX Review: A Ferrari Minus The Badge

The Christian Science Monitor Mar 16 06:14 am 

The 2017 Acura NSX reasserts the notion that Honda can make a supercar in its own right. The automaker expects to sell just 800 cars in the United States.

Reichhold Announces Price Increase for European Composites Industry

Business Wire Mar 16 05:03 am 

DURHAM N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Reichhold announced today a price increase effective for all orders shipped on or after April 01 2016 in Europe of 80 EURMT on all unsaturated polyester resins vinyl ester resins and ancillary products. This increase is an unavoidable consequence of styrene and other raw materials recent cost rise. We appreciate the understanding of our customers as we continue...

For An Experiment, NASA To Set Large Fire In Space

NDTV Mar 15 11:13 pm 

NASA39s John H Glenn Research Centre is going to light a quotlarge scale firequot in space as part of an experiment that seeks to understand how fire spreads in a micro-gravity environment.

NIST Invents Fleet And Fast Test For Nanomanufacturing Quality Control

SpaceDaily Mar 15 11:45 pm 

Measurements of electrical properties of a plastic tape yellow taken using a specially designed microwave cavity the white cylinder at center and accompanying electrical circuit change quickly and consistently in response to changes in the tape39s thickness.

Campagnolo Launch Potenza 11 Speed Group Pitched Against Shimano Ultegra

Cyclingnews Mar 16 12:17 am 

Including the three EPS electronic shifting versions Campagnolo currently offers eight groupsets from Veloce up to Super Record EPS. In the way that we journos and the great cycling public like to compare different manufacturer39s wares we39ve always thought that Shimano39s popular Ultegra groupset matches up somewhere between Chorus and Athena but it never felt like a fair fight.

FAA to conduct review of 787

Red Deer Advocate Mar 16 01:38 am 

WASHINGTON The U.S. government has stepped in to assure the public that Boeingtrades new 787 Dreamliner is safe to fly even as it launched a comprehensive review to find out what caused a fire a fuel leak and other worrisome incidents this week.

Global and China Aramid Fiber Industry Report, 2015-2018

PR Newswire Mar 15 03:43 pm 

LONDON March 15 2016 PRNewswire -- Aramid fiber a new high-tech synthetic fiber falls into two types meta-aramid fiber and para-aramid fiber with the latter is superior to the latter in terms of technical difficulty and performance indicator.Global aramid fiber capacity has...

Lectra Appoints Jason Adams As President, Lectra North America

PR Newswire Mar 15 10:39 am 

ATLANTA March 15 2016 PRNewswire -- Lectra the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using fabrics leather technical textiles and composite materials is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Adams as President Lectra North America. Based...

Bioceramics Sector Driving Overall Growth In Ceramics Market, Reports BCC Research

Marketwire Mar 15 02:38 am 

WELLESLEY MA --Marketwired - March 15 2016 - Advanced structural ceramics have the potential to resolve many material-based challenges in a host of commercial and industrial markets. BCC Research reveals in its new report that breakthroughs in advanced ceramics technology are having a vast impact on global business and society.

Textechno Wins JEC Innovation Award

materialstoday Mar 15 05:15 am 

Textechno won the JEC World Innovation Award 2016 for a new testing system to access the properties of a fiber to matrix interface.

Wind rush helps Gurit profits rise 132%

Plastics and Rubber Weekly Mar 15 05:29 am 

Gurit the composite parts and components group has seen operating profits increase by 132 to CHF 33m 23.6m boosted by continued strong demand in the wind industry.

Researchers propose a new model for dark matter

Astronomy Now Mar 15 01:24 am 

Indisputable physical calculations state that approximately 27percent of the universe is dark matter but there are indications that we might never see it. Now researchers in Denmark turn this somehow depressing scenario into an advantage and propose a new model for what dark matter might be and how to test it.