The Tetra Pak A3/ Speed filling machine for Tetra Prisma Aseptic portion packs was deployed at the dairy producer after following a successful field test in 2012. Running at a speed of 24,000 packs per hour, or approximately seven packs ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Filling Machine, Dairy Packaging, carton packages
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says that missions in remote, forward operating locations often suffer from a lack of connectivity to tactical operation centers and access to valuable intelligence, surveillance and ...
Tags: GaN E-band MMICs, vehicles, Electrical, Electronics
The top natural gas analyst at Jefferies raised his 2014 gas price forecast 8% Thursday, citing a much higher than anticipated winter price in the first quarter and the end of coal's ability to keep gas prices range-bound. "The era of too ...
Tags: natural gas, analyst, Coal
Bayer MaterialScience is increasing its production capacities in the Asia/Pacific region to meet the continued growth in demand there for raw materials for coatings and adhesives. Ground was broken at the site in Shanghai, China, recently ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coatings
Continuing its ‘Mid-Power March’ series of product announcements, Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that its LUXEON 3535 2D mid-power LED (launched in May 2013) has had its typical flux output boosted by 10%, delivering ...
Tags: MID-Power LED, LUXEON, CCT
Researchers in France have reported on solar cell devices based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [Sirona Valdueza-Felip et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p032301, 2014]. Conversion efficiencies of up to 2% ...
Tags: Solar Cells, InGaN
The UK's imports of thermal coal in January rose 14% on the month and 3% on the year to 3.46 million mt, according to customs data released Friday. The month's jump in imports was driven by an 84% increase on the month in deliveries from ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, thermal coal imports
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
The frenzied pace of infrastructural developments in South Africa and Kenya is growing the market for thermoset resins in both countries. Significant government investment, especially in low-cost housing, road and other non-domestic ...
Tags: Construction, Chemicals, Decoration, Thermoset Resins
Momentive Performance Materials Quartz Inc. (MPM) has increased and expanded its manufacturing capacity of tantalum carbide coatings (TaC) in response to the larger demand for silicon carbide power (SiC) devices and increased need for ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, Decoration
The 092L ultra wide base drive tire pictured here is one of three tires Yokohama will unveil at MATS. Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) will introduce three commercial tires at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS), in Louisville, Ky., March ...
Soraa’s third generation (Gen3) GaN on GaN™ LED achieves world-record setting wall-plug-efficiency, outperforming the nearest competitor by 20% at normal operating conditions. In just one year, Soraa has achieved a remarkable ...
Tags: wall-plug-efficiency, color and whiteness rendering, innovation
Lund University has developed multi-gate (MuG) III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with a cut-off frequency of 210GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 250GHz, “the highest of any reported ...
Tags: effect transistors, fins, plasma, Electrical&Electronics
German polyester fibre specialist Trevira GmbH, Bobingen, has voiced its satisfaction with the past fiscal year in view of annual sales totalling about EUR 250 million (2012: EUR 232 million). Changes in the product mix and a positive ...
Tags: polyester fibre, Textile
From the release of connected bracelets, watches and even a smart toothbrush to a future of one-second high-definition movie downloads, the mobile world is developing rapidly. Here are five major trends to emerge at the four-day World ...
Tags: Mobile World, Consumer Electronics, Electronics, smartphone