ANSTO has made progress on a more cost-effective way to produce the medical radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), with less enrichment of uranium-235 (U-235) and producing less waste. ANSTO supplies the ...

Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past ...

Increasingly tight tolerances and rigorous demands for quality are forcing chipmakers and equipment manufacturers to ferret out minor process variances, which can create significant anomalies in ...

The self-taught chemist Ernest Solvay turned the sodium carbonate industry on its head in 1861 when he discovered a one-step process using brine, limestone, coking coal, and ammonia to make the ...

If Boeing’s latest plan succeeds, a single mishandled job will have prompted some of the manufacturer’s most fundamental production-line process changes in decades. That job was supposed to have fixed ...

During World War II, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom approached the largest U.S. chemical and pharmaceutical companies to enlist them in the race to mass produce penicillin ...