The keel laying process for PETRONAS' first floating liquefied natural gas facility (PFLNG 1) has commenced this week, marking another significant milestone in the construction of the facility at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering ...
Tags: Oil News, Gas News, Petronas, Floating LNG
Tamil Nadu Generation & Distribution Corporation Ltd (Tangedco) is likely to finalize the main plant package for the Udangudi thermal power project by December-end. Speaking to Electrical Monitor, a senior project official of Tangedco ...
Tags: coal-fired power, electronics
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, and Intelligent Epitaxy Technology Inc (IntelliEPI) of Richardson, TX, USA, which uses molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) ...
Tags: IntelliEpi, Soitec, engineered substrates, GaAs
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Claudio Facchin as Executive Committee member responsible for the Power Systems division, effective Dec. 1, 2013. He succeeds Brice Koch, who will leave ABB on Jan. 15, ...
Tags: ABB, appoint, Claudio Facchin, executive, Power System
Metso Corporation’s Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held in Helsinki, October 1, 2013, approved the Board of Directors’ proposed plan for partial demerger and decided to demerge Metso into two companies. Metso’s Pulp, ...
Laser markets keep on an even keel 31 Jul 2013 Longbow Research finds vendors reporting no rude surprises, while fiber laser players continue to tussle. Materials processing The fortunes of US laser vendors during the second quarter of ...
Tags: Laser markets, Electrical, Electronics
At the SEMICON West trade show in San Francisco (9-11 July), Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Markus Tacke has been appointed CEO of Siemens Energy Sector's Wind Power Division. The 48-year-old Tacke (in photo) will take the helm August 1, 2013. He succeeds Felix Ferlemann who, at 53, is leaving the company by mutual agreement to ...
Tags: Siemen, Wind Power Division
Topco held its Shareholders conference on June 17, Dr. J. W. Kuo, the chairman of Topco, expressed on the conference that car LED lights and indoor lighting would be its two main development directions in this year, also Topco plans to ...
Tags: Automotive Lighting, Indoor Lighting, LED
The manufacturer, which specialises in fresh prepared foods, announced today (June 13) that it had completed financial negotiations with banks enabling it to pay off some of its debt and extend existing loan agreements. As a result, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, TX, USA, which provides RF power technology for cellular markets, has announced a major initiative focused on demonstrating how its new and existing commercial RF power and microwave RF devices can meet ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has received the 2012 Foundry ...
Tags: TowerJazz, Skyworks Solutions, mixed-signal semiconductor
The UK's largest manufacturing exhibition opened its doors this week attracting a record number of visitors, demonstrating the continuing importance of the manufacturing sector to the UK's economy. "The last twelve months has been ...
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, recently delivered its 1 millionth high-efficiency, multi-junction solar cell to Space Systems/Loral ...
After hydro and thermal power, THDC India Ltd, a joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, is diversifying into solar energy business by investing Rs 800 crore in Uttar Pradesh. The ...
Tags: Solar Power, solar energy business, solar