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Prometheus Materials achieves ASTM certification for Bio-Cement
Prometheus Materials achieves ASTM certification for Bio-Cement Prometheus Materials, a leader in sustainable building materials, has achieved foundational certifications ASTM C129 for nonloadbearing...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Slope of Crude after new job data
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Slope of Crude after new job data Bitumen Report – February 8, 2023 Pressure on crude knocked the price down by 7 percent. Singapore fuel was volatile as oil but bitumen s...
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Chinese research team develops Polymers with a Metal Backbone
Chinese research team develops Polymers with a Metal Backbone Until now, you can have a metal or a plastic, but not both in one. However, things don’t have to stay that way. In the journal Angewandte...
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Historic Zagreb Cathedral preserved with MCI CorrVerter Technology
Historic Zagreb Cathedral preserved with MCI CorrVerter Technology The famous Zagreb Cathedral is the tallest and one of the most beautiful buildings in Croatia that attracts thousands of tourists wor...
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MIT researches driving objects through granular materials
MIT researches driving objects through granular materials Pushing a shovel through snow, planting an umbrella on the beach, wading through a ball pit, and driving over gravel all have one thing in com...
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CEMEX puts the Future into Action with RUBBERMIX crumb rubber asphalt
CEMEX puts the Future into Action with RUBBERMIX crumb rubber asphalt CEMEX is proud to present RUBBERMIX ASPHALT, a crumb rubber solution which offers an alternative recovery option for used tyres by...
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Braskem explores production of Bio-Based Polypropylene
Braskem explores production of Bio-Based Polypropylene Braskem the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial...
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Asahi Kasei explores recycling of high-quality Carbon Fibre
Asahi Kasei explores recycling of high-quality Carbon Fibre Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, has developed a new technology for recycling carbon fibre plastic compounds toget...
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Circular use of Aggregates could reduce emissions and save Europe €6B per year
Circular use of Aggregates could reduce emissions and save Europe €6B per year A new report by Sweco found it possible to reduce costs for raw material by approximately EUR 6 billion per year in Europ...
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Kebony calls for Sustainable Timber to be the new normal
Kebony calls for Sustainable Timber to be the new normal Norman Willemsen, Chief Executive Officer of Kebony, a global leader in the production of sustainable wood, today spoke out in support of Europ...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Movements of Markets
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Movements of Markets Bitumen Report – 9 Jan, 2023 Financial markets have started 2023 on Wednesday and crude oil initiated by falling further. Bitumen stayed in the former...
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CorroLogic is the logical Corrosion solution for the Oil and Gas Industry
CorroLogic is the logical Corrosion solution for the Oil and Gas Industry The stakes of corrosion in the oil and gas industry can be astronomical, ranging from high maintenance and repair costs, to do...
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Making new Crystalline Materials with two or more elements
Making new Crystalline Materials with two or more elements Argonne National Laboratory scientists have found a new way to make materials for batteries, magnets and microelectronics. The world’s best a...
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Producing hydrogen using a Sponge Iron
Producing hydrogen using a Sponge Iron RUDN University environmentalists have proposed a new catalyst for converting methane into hydrogen – an alternative energy carrier. The catalyst itself is...
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Lafarge Canada turns Nova Scotia Cement Plant green
Lafarge Canada turns Nova Scotia Cement Plant green Lafarge Canada has been consistently advancing in their journey to Net-Zero. The largest provider of sustainable and innovative building solutions i...
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Empa researchers find the cause of brittle concrete walls
Empa researchers find the cause of brittle concrete walls “Our houses are crumbling!” reads a banner at a demonstration in Dublin. “100% reparation,” reads T-shirts worn by par...
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Vapor Barrier System mitigates brownfield Site Contamination
Vapor Barrier System mitigates brownfield Site Contamination Land Science®, a division of REGENESIS® and the leading provider of contaminant vapor mitigation systems, has been granted a U.S. patent fo...
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Teesside University Researchers are helping to create Carbon Neutral Cement
Teesside University Researchers are helping to create Carbon Neutral Cement An environmentally sustainable building material which could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the construction i...
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Cambridge scientists find dynamic fractals in clean magnetic crystal
Cambridge scientists find dynamic fractals in clean magnetic crystal The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensi...
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New Weld Filling Wire invented for high-strength Steel Repair
New Weld Filling Wire invented for high-strength Steel Repair The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense teamed up to create a series of weld filler materials that could dramatically improve high-stre...
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Cemblend and OCL Regeneration developing Clinker-Free Low-Carbon Products
Cemblend and OCL Regeneration developing Clinker-Free Low-Carbon Products Bespoke powder blending solution provider, Cemblend, today announced it has struck a collaboration agreement with OCL Regenera...
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Australian project explores Self-Healing Concrete using sloppy sludge
Australian project explores Self-Healing Concrete using sloppy sludge Water treatment sludge could be used to prevent 117,000 kilometres of sewer pipes in Australia from cracking in future, without an...
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The Toughest Material on Earth
The Toughest Material on Earth Scientists have measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel (CrCoNi). Not on...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Geopolitical Risks adds Up to Energy Crisis
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Geopolitical Risks adds Up to Energy Crisis Bitumen Report – December 12, 2022 Petrochemicals and fuel fell further along with oil. Crude got to its lowest price in 2022. B...
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Shell and Connect Plus accelerate Decarbonisation of Road Construction
Shell and Connect Plus accelerate Decarbonisation of Road Construction Shell has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Connect Plus – a consortium that includes Edge Orbital Holdings L...
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Construction of Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 accelerated by PERI Customised formwork
Construction of Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 accelerated by PERI Customised formwork At the south end of Frankfurt Airport, Terminal 3, with its futuristic design, is currently one of Europe’s largest...
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New sustainable Green Gantry in Austria made from Wood
New sustainable Green Gantry in Austria made from Wood With the “Green Gantry”, Kapsch TrafficCom introduced a gantry made from local and renewable resources that paves the way for sustain...
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Global Polymer Concrete Market forecast to reach $757.7m by 2026
Global Polymer Concrete Market forecast to reach $757.7m by 2026 The Global polymer concrete market is forecasted to reach USD 757.7 Million by 2026, according to a new report by Reports and Data. A s...
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New Nanoparticle structure opens the door to special material properties
New Nanoparticle structure opens the door to special material properties Alex Travesset doesn’t have a shiny research lab filled with the latest instruments that probe new nanomaterials and measure th...
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Research finds Concrete breaks down in Vegetable Oil
Research finds Concrete breaks down in Vegetable Oil Factories in various industries use vegetable oils. These can be both edible oils and technical ones, which are used, for example, for lubricating...
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Cool approach could make Heat Resistant Materials
Cool approach could make Heat Resistant Materials High-entropy alloys are a new class of alloys that are composed of four or more metallic elements in approximately equal amounts. For example, convent...
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Bio-based alternative to petroleum-based Asphalt Additive could extend pavement life
Bio-based alternative to petroleum-based Asphalt Additive could extend pavement life It all started about 12 years ago when a high school teacher visiting Iowa State University for a summer program as...
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New machine-learning technique could help reduce Potholes
New machine-learning technique could help reduce Potholes Researchers have developed new “intelligent compaction” technology, which integrates into a road roller and can assess in real-time the qualit...
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Designing next-generation Metals for longer-lasting Batteries
Designing next-generation Metals for longer-lasting Batteries How can studying metals manufacturing lead to longer-lasting batteries and lighter vehicles? It all comes down to physics. Researchers at ...
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Superfast method discovered to manufacture Thermoelectric Devices
Superfast method discovered to manufacture Thermoelectric Devices Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborators Alexand...
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Scientists use electricity to find Materials that can Learn
Scientists use electricity to find Materials that can Learn Scientists used the Advanced Photon Source to watch a non-living material mimic behaviour associated with learning, paving the way for bette...
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Lafarge Canada donates Low-Carbon Concrete for Pic Mobert First Nation Sports Park
Lafarge Canada donates Low-Carbon Concrete for Pic Mobert First Nation Sports Park Lafarge Canada was proud to announce an in-kind donation of ECOPact low-carbon concrete, with a market value of over...
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ACO launches Drainage Specification e-commerce platform
ACO launches Drainage Specification e-commerce platform ACO’s Building Drainage division has unveiled its new e-commerce site aimed at streamlining the selection and specification process for bu...
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Biofuel research promises to reduce Vehicle Carbon Emissions
Biofuel research promises to reduce Vehicle Carbon Emissions Argonne collaborates with US laboratories on research to identify promising biofuels for different engine types. Biofuel is closer to becom...
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Cortec MCI-2040 tackles Concrete Corrosion Vertical Repairs
Cortec MCI-2040 tackles Concrete Corrosion Vertical Repairs Cortec® Corporation, the home of MCI® Technology, is pleased to announce its new, improved MCI®-2040 High Performance Vertical/Overhead Repa...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: More Crude Bullishness by new IEA Reports
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: More Crude Bullishness by new IEA Reports Bitumen Report – November 8, 2022 The above 4% growth of crude during the first week of November made many hopefuls for $100 oil....
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Window Coating could keep Buildings cool without using any energy
Window Coating could keep Buildings cool without using any energy As climate change intensifies summer heat, demand is growing for technologies to cool buildings. Now, researchers report in ACS Energy...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Economic Turmoil and Political Tensions
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Economic Turmoil and Political Tensions Bitumen Report – November 1, 2022 Crude, stalled in the range of 92 to 94 during the last week of October, shows that the market is...
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Cosmic Magnet Manufacturing could reduce need for Rare Earth Elements
Cosmic Magnet Manufacturing could reduce need for Rare Earth Elements Researchers have discovered a potential new method for making the high-performance magnets used in wind turbines and electric cars...
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Turning Carbon Dioxide into solid minerals underground
Turning Carbon Dioxide into solid minerals underground A new high-profile scientific review article in Nature Reviews Chemistry discusses how carbon dioxide (CO2) converts from a gas to a solid in ult...
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Thinnest ever ferroelectric material will lead to new energy-efficient devices
Thinnest ever ferroelectric material will lead to new energy-efficient devices The discovery of intriguing material behaviour at small scales could reduce energy demands for computing. As electronic d...
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Miniature Magnets can now be printed on a 3D Printer
Miniature Magnets can now be printed on a 3D Printer Scientists from the Ural Federal University and the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences are determining the optimal conditions for 3D pr...
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X-ray CT inspection of 3D-printed parts improved by Deep Learning
X-ray CT inspection of 3D-printed parts improved by Deep Learning A new deep-learning framework developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is speeding up the process of insp...
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Smart materials and Metal Cations respond to Temperature
Smart materials and Metal Cations respond to Temperature Often referred to as smart materials, temperature-responsive or thermoresponsive polymers are gaining attention for their ability to respond to...
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Storing Hydrogen in salts
Storing Hydrogen in salts Hydrogen gas could someday replace fossil fuels as a “clean” energy source, producing only water and energy. However, handling large quantities of gaseous hydrogen is cumbers...
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