Evonik to open plant for biodegradable polymers in Darmstadt

Evonik will open a new facility in Darmstadt to host the manufacturing and development of RESOMER? products.

R?chling begins production of semi-finished thermoplastics in India

R?chling has a new plant for thermoplastics in India. The R?chling Engineering Plastics (India) Pvt. Ltd. is located in Savli, Vadodara District, Gujarat/India

BASF to build plant for biodegradable chelating agent

Facility for Trilon? M to start up in 2015; investment responds to growing worldwide demand for phosphate alternatives

New medical elastomers for wire and cable outperform TPVs

Minnesota Wire is using the new styrenic TPE Series in the Medalist? range from Teknor Apex to replace TPVs

Screw tightening torques reduced on ROBA-DS disk pack coupling

ROBA-DS disk pack coupling has an easy to assemble, positive locking conical connection that operates at extremely low tightening torques that are both simple and economical

Strategic alliance improve pump performance for powergens

Kennametal Extrude Hone and Hydro join to deliver improved pump performance task and cost-efficiency

Painting robot lends surgeons a hand

Student invention could help teach doctors to perform complex, robot-assisted surgeries

SolidCAM UK will show force at the MACH 2014

SolidCAM UK will be participating in MACH 2014 on April 7-11 at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) Birmingham

Naeem to head business development at Laserdyne

Dr Mohammed Naeem is appointed as senior manager for business development of Prima Power Laserdyne

Waterjet acquires Flow International

Waterjet Holdings has completed its acquisition of Flow, the world's leading developer and manufacturer of industrial water jet systems for cutting and cleaning applications

IARC: Cancer is now the world's biggest killer

On World Cancer Day 2014, a new report from International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) shows cancer the biggest cause of mortality worldwide – with the number of cases set to explode in coming years

‘Blueprint for Action’ to combat life-saving drug shortages

Ethics, pharmacy, policy and paediatric cancer experts publish recommendations for managing and preventing drug shortages