The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...
Japanese flavours developer Takasago International Corporation has acquired US-based Centre Ingredient Technology (CIT) to expand its natural materials portfolio. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. CIT is a ...
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Toyota has pledged to eliminate CO2 emissions from its factories, and in an attempt to do so the company said that it will begin generating electricity from methane for its Georgetown plant in the US. Methane for the Georgetown plant ...
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A Florida State University engineering professor has developed a new highly efficient and low cost light emitting diode that could help spur more widespread adoption of the technology. "It can potentially revolutionize lighting ...
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PPG Industries has completed a $3.8 million expansion at its coatings manufacturing facility in Laguna de Duero, Valladolid, Spain. The investment provides new, state-of-the-art, mixing and blending equipment at the facility that will ...
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The appreciation event of Sinotruk New Steyr Trucks with Man Technology has been held in Jining City, the fully newly upgraded Steyr trucks for customers on 21 August 2015, which Bao Hongliang, General Manager of Sales Department of ...
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Laminating and coating machines producer Lacom will introduce at ITMA 2015, a new generation machines for the treatment of flexible substrates. According to a Lacom press release, the key feature of the system is that hotmelt's are not ...
OEM Group of Phoenix, AZ, USA (which supplies new and re-manufactured semiconductor capital equipment and upgrades focused on emerging markets) says that a leading LED maker has placed a repeat order for an AGHeatpulse RTP (rapid thermal ...
Switzerland-based robotics and automation technology firm ABB has notched up an order to the tune of $52m for catalyzing the efficiency of new manufacturing unit of Changan Ford Automobile in Harbin, China, with its robots to produce ...
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Axalta Coating Systems has opened a latest generation manufacturing facility in Shanghai to produce waterborne coatings for China’s growing automobile market. The newest and one of Axalta’s most advanced waterborne production ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, has opened a latest-generation manufacturing facility in Shanghai to produce waterborne coatings for China’s growing automobile market. The newest and one of ...
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Ford’s Oakville Assembly plant has commenced production of 2015 Ford Edge, which will be exported to more than 100 countries. The Oakville Assembly plant has also added 400 new employees in addition to the 1,000 employees who will ...
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Although six years have passed since the global financial crisis broke out, many countries have not yet overcome its impact with the global economy is still facing uncertainties. And given the economic slowdown, albeit slight, in China, it ...
Autocam Medical Autocam Medical Devices, LLC (Autocam Medical) announces the completion of its acquisition t of Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based Southeastern Technology, Inc. (SET). Grand Rapids, MI, December 2, 2014– Autocam Medical ...
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Global demand growth for fluorochemicals is forecast to accelerate, rising 3.8 percent per year to 3.8 million metric tons in 2018. Above average growth in higher value products will help drive increases in value demand more than seven ...