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XI'AN, China, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power Equipment" or "the Company", OTC Bulletin Board: CPQQ), the designer, manufacturer, and distributor of a new generation of energy saving electric transformers and transformer cores in the People's Republic of China, today expressed its sympathies to the citizens of Japan as they deal with the tragic and devastating earthquake, aftershocks, and tsunami waves that hit northeastern Japan this...

PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) announced today that its tubular products subsidiary, U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc., has entered into an agreement with Surface Enhancement Technologies (SET), part of Lambda Technologies Group, to permit U. S. Steel Tubular Products to be the exclusive tubular products manufacturer to utilize Low Plasticity Burnishing (LPB®), an advanced, patented technology that can be applied to a variety of...

In her search to understand one of the most basic human senses "“ touch "“ Mitra Hartmann turns to what is becoming one of the best studied model systems in neuroscience: the whiskers of a rat. In her research, Hartmann, associate professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, uses the rat whisker system as a model to understand how the brain seamlessly integrates the sense of touch with...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced today that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has issued an air quality permit for its direct reduced iron making facility that will be located in St. James Parish. Issuance of the air permit will allow the company to begin the process of ordering equipment and commencing construction immediately. The permit allows for the construction and operation of two plants with a combined annual...

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...

Amorphous palladium-based alloy demonstrates unprecedented level of combined toughness and strength; could be of use in biomedical implantsGlass is inherently strong, but when it cracks or otherwise fails, it proves brittle, shattering almost immediately. Steel and other metal alloys tend to be tough"”they resist shattering"”but are also relatively weak; they permanently deform and fail easily.The ideal material, says Marios Demetriou, a senior research fellow at the California Institute...

First model of rapid phase change in storage materialAlthough the storage of films and music on a DVD is part of our digital world, the physical basis of the storage mechanism is not understood in detail. In the current issue of the leading journal Nature Materials, researchers from Jülich, Finland, and Japan provide insight into the read and write processes in a DVD. This knowledge should enable improved storage materials to be developed. (DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2931)Information is stored in a...

VANCOUVER, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ - Kiska Metals Corporation ("Kiska" or the "Company") is pleased to report the results of initial metallurgical studies carried out on copper-gold mineralization from its Island Mountain Prospect, Whistler Project, Alaska. Tests on two composite samples utilizing open circuit flotation followed by cyanide leaching of flotation tailings returned average copper concentrates grading 23% copper with recoveries averaging 67% for copper and 82% for gold. "Given the...

The ability of phase-change materials to readily and swiftly transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or "flash" memory and data storage. Now an entire new class of phase-change materials has been discovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley that could be applied to phase change random access memory (PCM) technologies and possibly optical data...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Dan Oman, RMT Vice President, was recognized by the American Foundry Society (AFS) with the James P. Keating Founders' Freedom Award and the Jonathan Stone Outstanding EHS Contribution Award for his commitment to the metalcasting industry. "We honor Dan's outstanding service to not only AFS, but the entire industry," said Jerry Call, AFS Executive Vice President. "He has worked tirelessly as an AFS member and on several Division 10 (EHS)...