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Iron and Steel

New S-920N-C Stainless Steel Dispensing System from Nordson

Nordson ASYMTEK, a leader in dispensing, coating, and jetting technologies, introduces its S-920N-C stainless steel dispensing system that is third-party certified for Class 100 cleanroom use. It is...

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe Begins New Apprentice Training

The new apprentice training year started today at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG. As of September 1 the company has taken on 328 new apprentices in 19 occupations. That brings the total number of Thysse...

NREL Confirms 14.3% Efficiency of Miasole’s Commercial Solar Modules

MiaSolé, the leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laborator...

NanGenex Presents New Pilot Reactor for Constant Production of Nanoparticles

NanGenex Inc., the Proprietary NanoSolution Technology Platform Company presents its latest GMP compliant benchtop and pilot plant reactor for the industrial scale production of NanoActive™ nanopartic...

ThyssenKrupp Nirosta Announces Restructuring of Stainless Steel Service Center Operations

ThyssenKrupp Nirosta is to concentrate all its stainless steel service center operations in a single unit in the future. In addition to the Nirosta Service Center (NSC) based in Wilnsdorf (near Siege...

Aluminum

Ball and Coors Light Together Bring Packaging Innovation to Market

Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) and Coors Light are bringing yet another eye-catching, highly functional packaging innovation to market that is bolder, colder and more portable than ever before. Coors L...

New Tower at LaGuardia Airport Features Alcoa's Aluminum Composite Panels

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that the new 233-foot tall air traffic control tower at New York's LaGuardia Airport, one of the busiest airports in the United States, is clad in Alcoa's lightweight R...

Canadian Steel and Aluminium Producers See Stable Recovery in the U.S. Market

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9a7269/canada_metals_repo) has announced the addition of the "Canada Metals Report Q3 2010" report to their offering. Canada Metals R...

Wagstaff to Deliver Chill Casting Equipment to Ma’aden-Alcoa JV

The Ma’aden-Alcoa joint venture has selected Wagstaff, Inc. to supply the joint venture’s vertical direct chill casting complex with t-ingot, rolling ingot, and extrusion billet casting equipment. T...

New Aluminum Crowd Control Post from Visiontron

Visiontron Corp, premier manufacturer of crowd control products, proudly announces the new environmentally friendly Utility Retracta-Belt Post. This green stanchion is manufactured from recyclable a...

Materials Science

Dr. John Kim to Discuss Axion’s Recycled Plastic Building Material at AREMA Event

Axion International Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: AXIH), producer of the world’s strongest recycled, composite plastic industrial building products, announced today that a paper entitled “World’s First Therm...

Biomedical Materials Science Firm Signs New Licensing Agreements

DSM Biomedical, a global leader in biomedical materials science, and its Berkeley based operation, DSM PTG, today announced the company has entered into six multi-year licensing agreements with global...

ASU Professor Honored for Achievements in Materials Science and Engineering

One of the highest honors in materials science and engineering has been awarded to Arizona State University engineering professor Subhash Mahajan. ASM International, one of the leading professional s...

Research Report on Developments of Industrial Coatings and Thin Films

Research and Marketshas announced the addition of the "Advances in Coatings and Surface Modification Technology" report to their offering. (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ec2eaa/advances_i...

Magical Material Combining Ferroelectric and Ferromagnetic Properties

It's the Clark Kent of oxide compounds, and – on its own – it is pretty boring. But slice europium titanate nanometers thin and physically stretch it, and then it takes on super hero-like properties t...

Economic News

Pending homes sales rise and jobless claims dip

(Reuters) – Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rebounded unexpectedly in July and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, hopeful signs for the sputtering economic recovery. Read the full story HERE. Filed under: employment, housing, Positive Economic News Tagged: employment, existing home sales, jobless claims, pending home sales, unemployment

Wall Street Surges After Upbeat Economic Reports

(NY Times) Wall Street began a new month on Wednesday with a surge on upbeat economic reports from Australia, China and, somewhat surprisingly, on manufacturing in the United States. Markets were higher in Asia and Europe after reports showing manufacturing activity picked up slightly in China in August after several months of slight declines, and [...]

Futures up as economic worries ease

(Reuters) – Stock index futures rose on Wednesday as new signs of growth in China and Australia eased concerns about the global economy’s health and investors awaited data on the labor market and housing. Read the full story HERE. Filed under: Positive Economic News Tagged: economic news, economy

Consumer confidence and home prices edge up

(Reuters) – U.S. consumer confidence rose modestly in August and U.S. homes prices gained more than expected in June, easing some worries the economy is headed for another downturn soon. Read the full story HERE. Filed under: consumer confidence, Positive Economic News Tagged: consumer confidence, economic news, economy, home prices, Positive Economic News

Are You And Economic IronMan

This weekend marked the time of the year where the sun blazes hot and people from around the World descend upon Louisville Kentucky for the Ford Ironman.  This year was no different, hot, humid, and visitors from around the globe.  However I had never paid much attention to it until this year, when my nephew [...]

Welcome to the Notre Dame Chapter Website!

April 2010 meeting details are now available Here.

-Josh (Webmaster)

 

Chapter Specific News

Site Updates & Something Different

Hello all,

I’m writing this posting just to notify of the April 2010 technical meeting updates as well as the April 2010 LINK on the websites.  This part of the post is ordinary, let’s get to the less-ordinary part.

- Josh


Website updated as of January 2010

“The Link” newsletter for January 2010 is available HERE and the January 2010 technical meeting details can be found HERE.  I hope everyone had a great holiday break and is ready to get back and active in 2010!

-Josh (Webmaster)

PS: There will be a new website coming online shortly for the Engineer’s Week dinner which can be found at http://www.Engineers-Week.com Be sure to check it out and place your reservation


October 2009 Link Available

The October version of “The Link” newsletter is now available on the Link page.


Chapter Scholarship Information Posted

As the title says, I got around to posting the chapter scholarship information on the new website. It can be found under the “Events” menu button, or by clicking here. We hope to see many applications this year. Best of luck to you all!


September Technical Meeting Results

Bob and our General Sheet Metal Rep

Bob and Joe at General Sheet Metal

Last night was the September technical meeting.  Our tour took place at General Sheet Metal here in South Bend.

The tour was very interesting and I would like to personally thank the guys (Joe and Seth) from General who led the tour and answered our many questions.  It is no wonder why they are a leader in their field.  We had dinner at Tippecanoe place and it was fantastic as usual.

I would also like to thank the newcomers who attended.  We had a good turnout with over 12 people.  Lets try to get even more next time.


October 2009 – Technical Meeting Information – Available

The October technical meeting details are now available on the website.

Click Here


Website Update – 25AUG09

Just a quick note…The contact form is functional, except there is a bug I’m working on for the comments field.  You can put comments in the name or email field for now.  I’m working to get it resolved.  I have received a couple messages that were missing the comments, which tipped me onto the bug.

-Josh

Update (23SEP09) – The bug is resolved and the contact form should be fully functional again.


First Post

smasmThis is mostly a test post just to allow some website testing.

This will be our official ND-ASM.org blog.  You shouldn’t ever have to actually visit this site (although you can if you want to), I’ll be pulling all of these posts directly into the RSS widget on the left side of the ND-ASM website.  It’s the top accordian file.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.  Webmaster@ND-ASM.org

-Josh