Formulating with Less Salt

Food processors should address the needs of consumers who can greatly reduce their risk of hypertension by making better food choices

Science Catches Up with Tradition

Researchers are formulating nutricosmetics based on age-old beauty secrets

Nutricosmetics Go Mainstream

When a trend such as natural & organic goes mainstream, you know that it is a permanent or significant change in lifestyles. Here, we see that the trend to beauty inside and out has gone mainstream, writes STEVE BIDINGER.

Single solution for multiple applications

No one has a better grasp of exactly what the new TRUMPF laser processing cell can do than LICOS Trucktec GmbH, which is based in the town of Markdorf on Germany’s Lake Constance. As one of TRUMPF’s trial customers, the company has spent the last five months testing out a TruLaser Cell 3000.

NCSIMUL machine simulation

Vero Software and SPRING Technologies are celebrating the first anniversary of their partnership in May, which has led to manufacturers fully simulating how NC programs will perform, before they start cutting metal on their CNC machines.

Sustainable construction using unique formwork elements

An architectural technically sophisticated construction is currently being built in Al Ain - the Desert Learning Centre. For the realisation of this freely accessible walk-in sculpture, PERI developed a formwork solution using special elements based on proven products.

Starbucks Moves to the ‘Espresso’ Lane in China

Mix it!

Ultra-short pulsed lasers mix and deposit the ingredients of complex coating systems on flat panel displays and solar cells in a single step.

ABB wins US$16 million power order to support industrial infrastructure in Iraq

ABB, the power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around US$16 million from Mass Global Investment Company for the construction of a substation and SVC Light (static var compensator) system that will supply electricity to a new melt shop and steel rolling mill in northern Iraq. The order was received in the first quarter.

Neurosurgeons offer treatments for movement disorders, pain

NYU Langone's Neuromodulation Center offers innovative treatment for movement disorders, chronic pain and other neurological conditions through targeted stimulation technology, navigation techniques

Skin transplant offers new hope for vitiligo patients

Henry Ford Hospital dermatologists say skin transplant surgery is safe and effective for restoring skin pigmentation caused by the skin disease vitligo. In a first study of its kind in the United States, researchers followed 23 patients for up to six months after surgery and found that the treated area regained on average 43% of its natural skin color. In eight patients with localized vitiligo, the treated area regained on average 68% of its natural skin color.

New technology treats dry eye symptoms

Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education, is first in Southwest USA to treat evaporative dry eye using LipiFlow thermal pulsation system