New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...
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Renewable energy statistics, viewed in isolation, sketch a misleading picture of wind and solar energy growth in China. According to the Energy Information Agency, China's total installed wind and solar electricity capacity was 7% in ...
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"After completing the construction of 14 wind turbines this year, Haizhuang plans to build 25 to 50 turbines in the United States next year," said Yang Benxin, chairman of CSIC (Chongqing) Haizhuang Windpower Equipment at the WINDPOWER 2015 ...
Tags: Wind Market, US market
Hempel has launched a new combined primer and mid-coat designed specifically for wind towers. The new coating, HEMPADUR 4774D, will be used in Hempel’s well-known two-coat anti-corrosive system for wind turbine towers to address ...
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China will levy a resource tax on rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum based on sales value instead of production quantity, the Ministry of Finance announced on Thursday. The new tax, taking effect from May 1, is set at 6.5 percent for ...
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BASF will once again be present with its polyurethane experts at the 2015 UTECH International Polyurethane Exhibition and Conference in Maastricht (NL). For the first time, the company will display a new roof module based on the PU system ...
Tags: "Green"Coatings, Marine Coatings, Decoration
Energized by growing demand for power supplies, hybrid and electric vehicles, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and other established applications, the emerging global market for silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductors will grow ...
Tags: GaN SiC Power electronics, power supplies, Electronics
Hempel’s HEMPADUR AvantGuard product range was named Materials Performance (MP) Corrosion Innovation of the Year for 2014 at the NACE Corrosion 2015 Conference and Exhibition. Given on 16 March in Dallas, US, the award recognizes the ...
Tags: AvantGuard technology, NACE Corrosion 2015 Conference and Exhibition
After two tough years of stagnation, in 2014 the power semiconductor device market returned to growth, rising by 8.4% to $11.5bn, according to the report 'Status of the Power Electronics Industry (February 2015 edition)' from Yole ...
The share of cotton from more sustainable sources used by furniture and home furnishings retailer, Ikea in its products reached 76 per cent and is on track to reach its goal of 100 per cent by August 2015. Sweden based Ikea Group released ...
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During today's Plastics in Automotive Conference in Detroit,Sandy Munro, CEO of Munro & Associates, discussed – for the first time publicly – his consulting firm's findings from its extensive deep-dive teardown, costing and ...
Taiwan-based Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd., a supplier of motors and household appliances, expects to continue gaining steam from its wind turbine business, as its new factory of such products in Hunan Province, central China, will ...
Tags: Wind Turbine, Electric Machinery
Global coatings supplier Hempel, has launched HEMPADUR AvantGuard, a portfolio of three new anti-corrosive zinc primers. Based on patented AvantGuard technology, HEMPADUR AvantGuard coatings provide better anti-corrosion protection than ...
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Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling infrastructure maker TruStar Energy along with Energy Systems Group (ESG) has been given a contract to build transit fast-fill CNG fuel station in Indiana for CityBus. CityBus provides transit service ...
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Warren Buffett popularized the notion of investing in "cigarette butt" stocks. That is, extracting one last "puff" of value out of discarded stocks trading below liquidation value. Well, get ready to put a new spin on the term. Based on ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, e Cigarettes, e-Cigarettes