Two new courses, designed to help furniture companies identify suitable job opportunities for the less able, have been developed following a two-year international project. Supported in the UK by British Furniture Manufacturers (BFM), the ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
Victoria’s Minister for Regional Development Jaala Pulford has announced the next step in the Ararat freight and logistics hub, with the appointment of strategic consulting firm WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff. WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff ...
Researchers from the US Department of Agriculture are developing a packaging film made of milk proteins. The researchers presented their work at the 252nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Researchers ...
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The payoff of Taiwanese fastener makers' effort on going upmarket is a major growth drive for the industry's sustainable development (in the photo are the high-strength, quality-approved bolts and fixings for rail construction). Although ...
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Tom Dixon unveils new minimalist stationery COG A series of super-functional accessories, inspired by great British engineering and made from brass-plated solid aluminium. Creating a sense of the tooled and the machined, these pieces ...
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Sun Chemical has opened a new coatings lab at its research and development facility in Carlstadt, New Jersey, US. The new lab will enable Sun Chemical to provide enhanced services to the graphic arts and packaging markets. Featuring ...
For second-quarter 2016, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA – which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials – has reported revenue of $20.5m, down slightly on $21m a year ...
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Ford Motor and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working together on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services for ride-hailing and ...
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Health and hygiene company RayVio Corp of Haywood, CA, USA, which is commercializing deep-ultraviolet (UV) LEDs and consumer disinfection solutions, is expanding a research program with Boston University to develop new treatments for ...
Hyundai Motor has established Project IONIQ Lab in South Korea for future mobility innovation through research and development. Project IONIQ Lab is part of Hyundai’s Project IONIQ, which itself is a long-term research and ...
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A new study has found that metal from the almost 5 trillion cigarette butts littered annually across the world may be leaching into the food chain. Published late last week by the online journal, Tobacco Control, Iranian scientists ...
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The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the first GRAS classification for any rice protein to Axiom Foods for their clinically-studied Oryzatein organic brown rice protein ingredient. Axiom's Vegotein pea protein was also awarded a ...
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At a ceremony at the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) National Centre for Power Electronics Annual Conference 2016 in Nottingham, UK, a post-graduate team from Imperial College London received the £2000 ...
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The corrugated trays allow fruit and vegetables to extend shelf life when compared with reusable plastic crates (RPCs), according to a research by Italy's University of Bologna. The research found that corrugated trays reduce the risk of ...
Tags: Plastic Crates, Fruits