The unexpected shutdown of Spanish Abengoa's 480 million liter/year Rotterdam ethanol plant in mid-December has helped boost grains-to-ethanol crushing margins in Northwest Europe to multi-month highs, data compiled by Platts show. ...
Tags: European Ethanol Margins, Chemicals, Abengoa
PCB manufacturers are being offered a technique for flash/HIPOT (2kV) testing of unpopulated boards. Clare has developed a system using its HAL104 instrument connected to a test enclosure for flash testing of PCBs during the initial ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics, PCB
With oil prices still elevated and operator appetite for offshore drilling seemingly limitless, Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 appears headed for vigorous bidding and dollar totals that may match or even surpass 2012's collective ...
Tags: Chemicals, Central Gulf, Mexico Sale
OneChip Photonics Inc of Ottawa, Canada, which designs optical chips and transceivers based on monolithic photonic integrated circuits (PICs) fabricated in indium phosphide (InP), says that it is working with both pure-play epiwafer foundry ...
Chinese buyers were bargain-hunting in the seaborne market against a backdrop of generally bearish demand and were heard Friday to have snapped up two Capesize spot cargoes of 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal for $83.50-84.75/mt CFR south China, with ...
Tags: Chemicals, CFR Cargoes Trade, Chinese Market
Intersil has created a single software platform for all of its PMBus-enabled power management products. The PowerNavigator software will be introudced at this year's Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in Long Beach, California on ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Chips, USB interface
Wireless technologies are used by 98% of small businesses in their operations, according to the 2013 AT&T Small Business Technology Poll. The survey conducted on a 1,000 small businesses in the US, revealed that 56% of smartphones used by ...
Clicking "install app" on a mobile device does not amount to personal data consent, according to EU privacy watchdog, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. Much of this data is processed to provide a revenue stream, which the ...
Tags: app, mobile device, software
Retailer Argos is giving away cinema tickets for Disney's Wreck-It Ralph movie. Those who spend £20 or more in an Argos store will receive a free kids' cinema ticket. The voucher is valid for one free child ticket to a single ...
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Character Options is teaming up with Entertainment One for a special nationwide Peppa Pig Twitter party. The event will take place on March 26th, and will be hosted live from UKMums.tv, with a second party hub on-site at Peppa Pig World ...
The 11.8m Euro pan-European project NEWLED (‘Nanostructured Efficient White LEDs based on short-period superlattices and quantum dots’) is aiming to develop a new generation of 50-60% energy-efficient white light-emitting LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, LEDlighting
The Siemens Drive Technologies Division has supplemented its Simotics XP portfolio with explosion-proof 1MB10 motors which are available in efficiency classes IE1, IE2 and IE3. The 1MB10 motors have been designed to enable pumps, fans and ...
Tags: Siemens, 1MB10 motors, low-voltage motors
Marge Carson sales reps learn about the high-end manufacturer's products in a sales meeting at company headquarters in Pomona, Calif. POMONA, Calif. — Marge Carson, a manufacturer of high-end home furnishings, hosted more than 30 ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
This is the Beautyrest Recharge Station at the new Sit 'n Sleep Store in Chino Hills, Calif.CHINO HILLS, Calif. - Mattress powerhouse Sit 'n Sleep recently opened its 29th store here and is gunning for more growth in the sprawling Southern ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
March 13, 2013 - The IEEE IAS Electrical Safety, Technical & Mega Projects (ESTMP) Workshop provides a forum for exchanging and advancing industry knowledge in the areas of safety, engineering design and system reliability of electrical ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics