Canonical will produce its Ubuntu Edge smartphone for launch in early 2014, despite failing this week to achieve the $32m funding it sought on crowd-funding website Indiegogo. According to CEO Jane Silber, the company will push ahead ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
IAF’s 29th World Fashion Convention has managed to create a well balanced mix of speakers covering subjects from different and crucial areas of the supply chain. Its speakers are a mix of Chinese apparel tycoons, European and US ...
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Germany-based steelmaker Salzgitter Group has announced that in the first half of the current year its performance was largely determined by the structural crisis in the European steel industry. Severe competition resulting from scarce ...
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A few days ago, the entire 3rd-phase project of oriented silicon steel production line of Baosteel was fully completed, which marked the above-mentioned line has reached an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons. Having gone into ...
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Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. posted net income of $35 million on net sales of $884 million for its second quarter ended June 30, 2013. That compares to net income of $52 million on net sales of $1 billion for the same period last year. ...
Tags: Cooper Tire, Auto Parts
Columbus, Ohio-based Worthington Industries announced Wednesday that it closed on an agreement with Wuhan Iron and Steel Company (WISCO) to become the majority member in Tailor Welded Blanks (TWB), its laser welded blanking joint venture. ...
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Mexico's increasing competitiveness is expected to be a boon to those companies, including American companies that design the original product and their contract manufacturers – the companies that manufacture the American ...
Tags: Textile Production, Textile
Cree has added to its residential-targeted LED retrofit lamp family with a BR30, while Soraa appoints execs, MaxLite expands its engineering department, and Dialog closes iWatt acquisition. Cree Lighting has announced a 9.5W BR30 LED lamp ...
Tags: Cree, BR30, Lights&Lighting
REEL Solar Inc (RSI) of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic module size, achieving a 1.5 square meter module. Conventional cadmium telluride (CdTe) modules measure 0.72 square meters, a ...
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Within five years, higher manufacturing exports due to a widening cost advantage over China and other major economies could add $20 billion to $60 billion in output to Mexico's economy annually. And due to the North America Free Trade ...
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The main aims of the common project are to improve the efficiency and service life of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). In addition, production costs have to be minimised to ensure that OLEDs can be successful in the general lighting ...
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystal growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has introduced a silicon ...
Tags: Silicon, Electrical, LED, solar, electronics
Gallium-nitride-on-silicon architecture inches closer to sapphire-based LED performance levels but a significant gap remains. Plessey Semiconductors has announced the PLB010350 LED that it is manufactured on its gallium-nitride-on-silicon ...
Power Integrations introduced its LYTSwitch-0 ICs on June 18, a new series of devices within the LYTSwitch family. LYTSwitch-0 ICs come with a unique combination of simplicity, reliability and efficiency. These new LED driver ICs would be ...
Tags: Power Integrations, LED Lamps, LED Driver, ICs Low Power
A breakthrough has been achieved in the design and manufacturing raw materials of wind turbine blade, which is planned to be nationalized, and the technology went through a test a few days ago. The project was undertaken by Sinomatech ...
Tags: raw materials, wind turbine blade