An extensive experimental database of inorganic thin-film materials that organizes a decade’s worth of research at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is now publicly available (‘An open ...
Tags: Thin-film, PV, Thin-Film Materials
Chinese multinational technology firm Baidu has secured first batch of licenses to carry out road tests for autonomous vehicles in Beijing. At the launch ceremony today, five cars powered by Apollo, the open autonomous driving platform by ...
Tags: Baidu, Autonomous Driving Vehicles
CCL Industries, a provider of specialty label, security and packaging solutions, has agreed to acquire Treofan America and Trespaphan Mexico from their parent firm M&C in a deal worth $225m. The entities considered for acquisition ...
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Unilever’s UK tea brand PG Tips said that it will make its tea bags with new plant-based material that is 100% renewable and biodegradable. The move is part of the company's plan to enhance the impact of products on the environment ...
PIX4life – a European pilot line within the European Horizon 2020 initiative that offers photonic integrated circuits for biophotonics and life-sciences applications – says that, after two years of internal development, it is ...
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has come up with new guidelines aimed at modernizing the way inspections at hog plants are carried out. The new rules proposed by the department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are ...
Tags: hog plants, Meat
DSM has announces the latest addition to its coating resins portfolio Skins by DSM. A special series of resins that enhances a key element for graphic and packaging design; touch. The resins, launched via the characters Rubbert Skins, ...
Tags: graphic design, resins
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is lending its support to the first quantitative study for the reduction of plastic waste in Japan. Dow will provide financial assistance to study the impact of plastic waste and debris on the ...
The results of a controlled horticulture lighting study conducted by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA have ...
CSafe Global has secured approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its new RAP ULD container. Part of the firm’s active and passive cold chain packaging solutions, the new CSafe RAP temperature controlled container ...
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Wasdell Packaging has unveiled plans to develop a new 70,000ft2 pharmaceutical facility in Dundalk, Ireland. The new facility will be developed at self-contained site situated at the IDA Dundalk Science and Technology Park in Mullagharlin ...
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Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
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Looking at the great growth potential of Taiwan's bio-technology industry, Henri Lenferink, the mayor of Leiden, a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, led a delegation to Taiwan earlier, discussing cooperation ...
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Corning is exhibiting its Valor Glass technology for pharmaceutical manufacturers at this year’s CPhI Worldwide event in Germany. The event is being held between 24 and 26 October in Frankfurt. Pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has opened its Optoelectronics Customer Innovation Lab, with ...
Tags: semiconductors, analog RF