How to provide the same strength yet be ultra-low weight – the new inner tube for mountain bikes from Schwalbe takes on this challenge. The company, the market leader in Europe for bicycle tires and inner tubes, has worked with BASF ...
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Why building toys can offer children of all ages the opportunity to build just about something? A child's interest in construction indicates above-average intelligence in spatial reasoning. Thus, it's even more important for parents to ...
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German mechanical engineering firm Voith has bagged the order for producing carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) for models that carmaker Audi will produce in future. With both the firms joining hands to organize the ramp-up for the ...
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The Saurer Group, a leading textile industry group specialising in machinery and components for yarn processing, has appointed Stefan Kross, the as the new delegate of the Board of Directors. Stefan Kross, a long term textile senior ...
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Germany's annual IT business fair CeBIT said Sunday that the digitalisation of the economy is primary focus at this year's event, and the strong presence from China as partner country is attracting great attention. CeBIT, hosted by ...
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Polycrystalline silicon solar cell maker Tainergy Tech will expand its total annual production capacity from 700MWp currently to 1GWp in 2015, according to the company. Tainergy Tech has annual production capacity of 5MWp for solar cells ...
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The University of Illinois has entered into an agreement with Traffic Powered Renewable Energy System (TPRES) maker New Energy Innovations to improve new traffic powered sustainable source. The sustainable source of clean energy will be ...
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Phoseon Technology has announced the appointment of John North as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. John brings a wealth of experience in worldwide sales and business development to Phoseon. He has developed profitable sales and ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) ® today announced that executives from Bosch, Cisco and Comcast will participate in the Fast Innovation: Disrupt or be Disrupted keynote panel at the 2015 International CES®. Owned and ...
Emcore Corp, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optics market, has named Jeffrey Rittichier as CEO. He succeeds Dr Hong Hou, who has served as president & CEO since March 2008. Rittichier has ...
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The producer of INOTEK, a biomimetic fibre, and technical director at MMT Textiles, a research and development company, Veronika Kapsali, has been named the Innovator of the Year at the ITMA Future Materials Awards ceremony held on 26 ...
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The garment industry in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, is in need of additional skilled workers in order to achieve the target to become a garment supply hub for the southern region and the nation’s fashion centre by 2020, ...
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Austrian steel producer voestalpine has announced that it will invest around €140 million over the next few years, constructing a new plant which will produce premium special steel products for the Chinese market. Construction is ...
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Professor Venkat Selvamanickam at the University of Houston has received a $1,499,994 grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative to produce high-efficiency, inexpensive thin-film photovoltaics. The SunShot Initiative ...
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Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced that it is investing €30 million in the complete modernization of its wire rod mill in Neunkirchen, aiming to secure market share in the premium quality sectors for customers in ...