Thomas Swan Company

The technology has been commercialized, in collaboration with the Thomas Swan company, for the manufacture of trimethyl cyclohexanone by Pd-catalyzed hydrogenation of isophorone (Fig. 7.22) [77]. 

Thomas Swan Company Ltd., 43 Unit Associde au Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, 59 University of Leeds, 43 University of New South Wales, 128 University of Southern Mississippi, 1,429 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 297,474... 

Thu umalai Chemicals Ltd., 176 Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, 309 Thomas Register of European Manufacturers, 309 Thomas Swan Co. Ltd., 213 Thorium and Thorium Compomids, 128 3M Coi poration, See Minnesota Mrnriig and Manufacturing Company (US), 250... 

University spin-off companies continue to make news and Cambridge-based Screen Technology Ltd, a 1996 Cambridge University spin-off which raised 8 million at its AIM debut in August 2005 is no exception. The company s shareholders include Thomas Swan Ltd, the Consett Co., Durham, UK manufacturer of Elicarb single wall and multi-wall carbon nanotubes. Swan s nanomaterials manufacturing capabilities are supported by research and development collaboration with Cambridge University s Departments of Material Science and Chemistry. 

First practical lightbulb (Thomas Alva Edison) Twenty-two people have invented lightbulbs before Edison and Joseph Swan, but they are impractical. Edison s is the first to be commercially viable. Eventually, Swan s company merges with Edison s. 

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