At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics
Recently, Baosteel successfully rolled the world's thinnest ultrahigh strength steel for cars. Its thickness was only 0.5mm, which was comparable to kraft paper; the strength reached 980 MPa, which rivaled commonly used submarine steel. At ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Nature's Reward, a new line of compostable bags manufactured and marketed by Lindamar Industries, an ISO 9001-2008 certified, California-based plastic packaging manufacturer, recently received the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) ...
US-based food-grade recycled PET or rPET producer CarbonLite has installed Buhler's SORTEX Sorting Technology to increase its output quality to near-perfect purity. Bühler's technology has the ability to conduct simultaneous, ...
Tags: recycled PET, Packaging
In its third edition of the latest study, Ceresana forecasts global revenues generated with pigments to increase to US$34.2 billion in 2020. Pigments are mainly used in the production of paints and varnishes as well as the coloring of ...
Tags: Pigments, Construction
NanoString Technologies has announced new results from a combined analysis of the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group 8 (ABCSG-8) and Trans-Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination (TransATAC) studies. These results, which ...
U.S. and European researchers say they may be able to explain the biological mechanism resulting in the therapeutic effects of meditation. Study author Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the ...
After selling MSM Transportation to Wheels Group last year, Mike McCarron joined Wheels to oversee mergers and acquisitions in a bid to consolidate the Canadian 3PL space. To gain a greater understanding of where the freight brokering ...
The bedtime you select for your toddler may be out of sync with his or her internal body clock, which can contribute to difficulties for youngsters attempting to settle in for the night, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder ...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is unreliable and does not effectively evaluate trucking companies' safety, the American Trucking Associations said in a white paper. ...
Tags: Transportation, truck, Auto
Wooden dowels too often seem like one of those things that stacks up around the house or workshop -- you buy some for a project, you use what you need, and then you have leftovers that have no discernible uses. Suddenly, you look down one ...
Tags: wooden dowels, decoration
There is no question Surfaces is the industry’s largest all-encompassing trade show in North America. And in 2014, it promises to be even bigger and better with the addition of a new trade show, TileExpo running in conjunction with ...
Tags: decoration, surface
Only 5 percent of those using a restroom wash their hands long enough to kill the germs that cause infection, a U.S. researcher says. The study, published in the Journal of Environmental Health, indicates a third of the people involved in ...
Tags: health, clean hands
Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso is set improve the efficiency and environmental performance of Tambrite packaging board by reducing the basis weight. The manufacturer will introduce the new, lower grammage range Tambrite ...
Tags: Stora Enso, Tambrite Packaging
North American provider of recycled printing paper FutureMark Paper Group has made enhancements to its high-recycled label paper Future Label. The coated one sided (C1S) label product contains more than 85% of recycled content and serves ...
Tags: FutureMark, Sustainable Packaging