Tekni-Plex has agreed to acquire Sancap Liner Technology, a manufacturer of cap and closure sealing materials to the global market, for undisclosed amount. Sancap is a producer of heat-seal, pressure-sensitive and gasket-sealing liners ...
About 100 students take pump classes at ITC each year. The objective is to deepen the students’ understanding of pump structures and to learn how to control the pumps, using real pumps during the classes. Around 90 university ...
Tags: Pump classes, ITC, Cambodia, Ebara
Jameson and Pearlfisher London have collaborated with Dublin street artist James Earley to create the 2016 Jameson limited edition St Patrick’s Day bottle. This year's bottle - the 5th limited edition St Patrick's Day bottle - was ...
Tags: St Patrick's Day, Jameson and earlfisher, James Earley
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced its line-up of fiber-optic transceivers designed to drive the data-center transition from 40Gb/s to 100Gb/s and ...
Tags: Oclaro, Transition, OFC
Ford has disclosed that it is developing a driver-less car which can be driven under snowy conditions. The company uses LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology to create 3D maps of the roads that the AV (Autonomous Vehicles) will ...
Tags: Ford, Drive-less car, LiDAR, 3D maps, Snow
The universities of Virginia and of Texas in the USA have been developing avalanche photodiodes (APDs) based on aluminium indium arsenide antimonide (AlInAsSb) alloys. Two papers from the group detail the implementation of a staircase ...
Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, South Korea has introduced a full line-up of chip-scale LED packages (CSP), including 0.6W-class and 3W-class packages, CSP arrays, and PoW (Phosphor on Wafer) packages. Samsung says that its CSP ...
Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd has launched a version of its low-mid-power 5630 package series that attains what is claimed to be record luminous efficiency of 210-220lm/W (at a color temperature of 5000K), as well as a tight ...
Tags: Everlight LEDs, LED designs
Smyth Companies, has acquired Pure Pack Technologies , which specializes in the conversion of flexible packaging materials. "Smyth's acquisition of Pure Pack Technologies immediately enhances our flexible packaging product offerings ...
Tags: Pure Pack Technologies, Smyth
Bewildering tax structures begone; Facebook is finally going straight in the UK. Facebook has agreed to pay “millions of pounds more in tax” in the UK, according to a new report. The social network giant is said to be ...
Researchers in Korea have been developing improved non-alloyed contacts for gallium arsenide (GaAs) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Seung-Hwan Kim et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
Optomec will feature its LENS 3D Printers for metal additive manufacturing applications at the Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) Conference in Orlando, Florida, US. Jim Cann, LENS Business Development Manager for Optomec, will give a ...
Tags: Optomec, LENS 3D Printers, LAM, Metal additive manufacturing
For Nevijo Mance, a vice-president of BMW China, buying a car would always be more than just looking for mobility. A car can also express your value, the group of people you think you belong to. And in the near future, a really good car ...
Tags: Driverless Cars, BMW China, dominant market
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016) in Barcelona, Spain (22–25 February), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Transistors