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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reacting to previews of key messages expected in President Obama's State of the Union address, Thomas J. Gibson, president and CEO, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), said, "We strongly support the President's declaration that 'his No. 1 focus is going to be making sure that we are competitive, and that we are creating jobs, not just now, but well into the future.'" Gibson said that AISI has consistently supported the need for...

CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) today announced the February 18 retail availability of the new Callaway® RAZR X(TM) line of irons, which includes the RAZR X, RAZR X Tour and RAZR X Forged irons. Callaway's new RAZR platform of products represents the Company's most premium technology offerings, and the RAZR X line has been designed to provide consistent distance and accuracy through the set for tighter shots, shorter putts and lower...

WEST CHESTER, Ohio, Jan. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AK Steel Corporation (NYSE: AKS) said today that it has prevailed in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against the company by two French units of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer. The suit, heard in U.S. District Court in Delaware, alleged that AK Steel and two other steel producers have infringed upon a U.S. patent for aluminum-coated, boron-bearing carbon steels, used primarily for high-strength automotive...

EM-Gold has been reformulated with new, highly potent ingredients that enhance the drink's regenerative properties by aiding in immune system, organ and metabolic health. Alto, TX (PRWEB) January 14, 2011 TeraGanix, Inc. the exclusive US distributor for Dr Higa's original EM Technology® products in the USA, has announced the introduction of EM-X® Gold to US and Canadian customers. EM-X® Gold replaces the older EM-X product, using a more potent formula. The new and...

In the vast ocean where an essential nutrient"”iron"”is scarce, a marine bacterium that launches the ocean food web survives by using a remarkable biochemical trick: It recycles iron.By day, it uses iron in enzymes for photosynthesis to make carbohydrates; then by night, it appears to reuse the same iron in different enzymes to produce organic nitrogen for proteins.The bacterium, Crocosphaera watsonii, is one of the few marine microbes that can convert nitrogen gas into organic nitrogen,...

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cargill today announced that it had reached an agreement with Magnetation, Inc. of Nashwauk, Minn. under which the companies will explore opportunities to develop and utilize Magnetation's proprietary mineral processing technology. According to Magnetation, the patent-pending Rev 3(TM) Separator technology allows mining operators to recover a marketable, high-grade iron ore concentrate from low-grade hematite iron deposits, including material left...

By Louis Bergeron, Stanford UniversityA new method of capturing detailed, three-dimensional images of minute samples of material under extreme pressures is shedding light on the evolution of the Earth's interior. Early results suggest that the early Earth did not have to be entirely molten to separate into the rocky crust and iron-rich core it has today. Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are leading the group pioneering the technique, which could lead...

Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and tracked by NASA's Near Earth Object astronomical network. Now in a series of 20 papers for a special double issue of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, published on December 15,...

Fortified with iron: It's not just for breakfast cereal anymore. University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated a simpler method of adding iron to tiny carbon spheres to create catalytic materials that have the potential to remove contaminants from gas or liquid.Civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Rood, graduate student John Atkinson and their team described their technique in the journal Carbon.Carbon structures can be a support base for catalysts, such as iron and other...

Ground-breaking research from Professor Douglas Kell, published in the journal Archives of Toxicology, has found that the majority of debilitating illnesses are in part caused by poorly-bound iron which causes the production of dangerous toxins that can react with the components of living systems.These toxins, called hydroxyl radicals, cause degenerative diseases of many kinds in different parts of the body.In order to protect the body from these dangerous varieties of poorly-bound iron, it...