Metalfoam.net - Newsletter No. 4

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1) Company news: Cymat Corp. (Canada) has acquired the aluminium foam

activities from Norsk-Hydro (Hydro-Aluminium) to form the World's 

leading aluminium foam manufacturer.



see: http://www.metalfoam.net/cymat.pdf (press release)

     http://www.cymat.com (Cymat's home page)



for more information.

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2) Second International Conference on Cellular Metals and Metal Foaming

   Technology (MetFoam 2001), 18-20 June, Bremen, Germany



  - 117 abstracts were submitted



  - the programme can be downloaded from

    http://www.metalfoam.net/metfoam.html



  - also available: abstracts of most contributions



  - the programme for oral contributions is closed, but poster

    submissions can be accepted until 31 May 2001.



  - registration information: mail to metfoam@ifam.fhg.de

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3) The German metal foam programme has an English home page now. Visit:

  

   http://www.spp-metallschaeume.uni-erlangen.de  

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