For the fourth summer in a row, five undergraduate students spent eight weeks at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute learning about solid-state lighting and investigating technology and application issues. The ...
Researchers in Germany have been developing an epitaxial lift-off (ELO) process that would allow gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates to be reused for indium gallium aluminium phosphide (InGaAlP) thin-film light-emitting diode (LED) ...
Valspar is expanding production capacity at its Singapore facility to meet increased demand for its food and beverage packaging products in the Asia Pacific region. The expansion is expected to come on line in 2017. "This investment ...
Plastic packaging firm RPC Promens Innocan has introduced a new range of PET containers designed for the edible oil sector. The fully-recyclable containers feature wide labeling area to allow manufacturers to maximize brand image and ...
Tags: edible oil sector, tooling costs
Despite indications the poll would be close, the London financial community has been dumbfounded by the decision of a majority of British voters to leave the European Union (EU). However, advocates of the 'Remain Case' were not ...
Tags: Food Producers, Beverage, Brexit
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the competitive selection of nine solid-state lighting (SSL) projects to receive funding, in response to the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001364 (“Solid-State Lighting ...
Tags: SSL, Core Technology Research
At the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2016) in San Francisco (24-26 May), the current state of the RF Energy Alliance (RFEA) and the impact it has made in its first two years is being showcased by its executive director Dr ...
Tags: RF Energy, Electronics
US-based rigid packaging company TricorBraun has redesigned cat litter package for Bentonite Performance Minerals (BPM), a subsidiary of Halliburton. Bentonite Performance Minerals is a producer of sodium bentonite mined from the Wyoming ...
3M Food Safety, the availability of software enhancements to its 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader, a peripheral device that serves as an automated alternative to the more time-consuming task of manually counting and documenting colonies of ...
Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) plans to eliminate approximately 350 to 400 positions by the end of the second quarter to reduce costs by approximately $60 million in fiscal 2016. In an announcement Monday, the Seattle company said the cuts ...
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To ensure seal integrity and quality control, products that come off the packaging line should undergo regular testing by using package leak detection equipment. Off-line leak detector testing can be done to detect problems with seal ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) says that its new non-hermetic 25Gbit/s 1.3μm distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for 100Gb/s transceivers are now fully ...
Tags: Oclaro, Transceivers, components
California based flexible packaging manufacturer Signature Flexible Packaging has selected KBA-Flexotecnica to deliver an EVO XD 10-color press at Los Angeles facility. The KBA-Flexotecnica's second 10-color gearless, sleeved, central ...
Tags: Signature Flexible Packaging, KBA-Flexotecnica, EVO XD press
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced qualification of its non-hermetic 25Gb/s 1.3μm distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for 100Gb/s transceivers. ...
The global chip-on-board (COB) LED market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35.51% during 2016-2020, according to a report by market research firm TechNavio. Key COB LED vendors are listed as Citizen Electronics, Cree, ...
Tags: COB LEDs Lighting market