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PFPC Daily - June 2, 2004 Fluorine in the News Today ScienCentral News reported of Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell University, and his research team who are working on rubbery coatings made of non-toxic types of plastic. Ober adds fluorine, used to make water-repellent coatings for cookware, like Teflon. "We've designed our nanometer-thick coatings to be heavily fluorinated, and we've done it in a special way so that our materials are even more non-wetting than a material like Teflon," Ober explains...."Just as you would paint the walls of your house with a latex plastic, we plan to coat ships with our special type of plastic." The research was co-sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. Read More: ScienCentral News: “Barnacle Free Boats” (June 3, 2004) http://makeashorterlink.com/?K20C52678
The stock of Japanese Stella Chemifa Corp, a manufacturer of high-purity chemicals based on fluorine, went up 4.07 percent at 1,920 yen after Daiwa Institute of Research on Tuesday raised its rating to "2" from "4", citing the possibility of strong earnings due to a planned price rise in the company's main products. Read more: Forbes, June 1, 2004 http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2FB21678 The Paducah Sun reported that after lengthy delays, abandoned fluorine cells will be moved out of the Paducah uranium enrichment plant this summer. PACRO has an agreement with Los Angeles-based ToxCo to recycle the cells, creating 10 jobs and saving the Energy Department about $2.5 million in cleanup costs. Read More: http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2EB22678
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