A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, both in Cambridge, came up with a material that can absorb the sun’s heat and store that energy in chemical form, ready to be released again on demand.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., Tokyo, and University of California, Santa Barbara, are extending their successful materials research alliance—the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM) at UCSB—for a new period.
How recycled aluminum is turned into beverage cans This video from the Discovery Channel shows how a nine-ton coil of sheet aluminum is cut and extruded, washed and painted, and turned into featherweight cans.
Novelis, Atlanta, announces that Red Hare Brewing Company will launch the world’s first commercial use of Evercan, the company’s independently certified high-recycled-content aluminum sheet for beverage cans.
Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, has commissioned a high-vacuum production-scale, 2-bar VAH3436 horizontal vacuum furnace with work zone dimensions of 24-in. wide x 24-in. high x 36-in. deep.
