BASF Construction Chemicals announced today that it has acquired the assets of Hi Con (Sichuan Pengshan) Concrete Admixture, a major producer of concrete admixtures in China.
Scientists at Rice University have developed a method of forming a thin coat of laser-induced graphene (LIG) on the surface of wood.
Heystaks Technologies, an Irish web-search start up company, has secured €1m (£0.9m) of equity funding from The Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund, which is managed by NCB Ventures.
Biomedical engineers at Yale have created an implantable system of blood vessels.