British company woos parents with its heritage brand name, service and quality With the birth of Britain's royal baby, Prince George, having caused a sensation in China, it is hardly a surprise to see the royal family's choice of pram, ...
Tags: Royal Pram, Chinese market
This four-strand pearl necklace was the second highest-grossing lot of the sale--topped only by a 5.29-carat purplish-pink diamond--and was the only lot to set a new world auction record. A four-strand natural colored pearl necklace ...
Tags: Pearl Necklace, Crafts
The range is expected to sell for thousands when it goes under the hammer next week. A collection of Nazi toys is expected to raise thousands at auction next week, when it goes under the hammer at Vectis Auctions in Teeside. The range ...
Tags: BBC, Vectis Toy Auctions, Toys
British luxury automaker Rolls Royce has unveiled the Serenity Phantom concept car at the 2015 Geneva International Motor Show. Inspired by the Rolls Royce cars of the early 1900's, the company's Bespoke Design department used natural ...
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The fur trade has slowed over the past year in China, but rising demand from northern parts of the country and smaller cities has been a strong factor in global sales growth and prices this year, according to industry participants. Mark ...
Art this year, became something everyone talks about, not just highbrows any more. From the chicken cup to Van Gogh's painting, rich Chinese rich are showing a robust purchasing power on the art market at home and abroad. Let's have a ...
Midsummer AB of Jarfalla, Sweden, a supplier of production lines for manufacturing flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, has halved the thickness of its CIGS layer, to 800nm (less than ...
Tags: CIGS Layer Thickness, Electrical
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced its SC5 Technology Platform, targeted at powering the next generation of lighting with the introduction of the firm’s new Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs. The new class of LEDs can reduce ...
Tags: Cree LED, High Power LEDs
Taxes on Brazil steel products have been adding costs to the competitiveness of the country’s industry, an executive said recently. Citing a comment from Sergio Leite, vice-president for sales at Usiminas, a media report said high ...
Tags: Taxes, Competitiveness, Energy
(New York, N.Y.) With support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency "citizen science" grants, two New York community groups have begun their final weeks of summer water pollution monitoring. The Bronx River Alliance and the Sparkill Creek ...
(New York, N.Y.) With support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency "citizen science" grants, two New Jersey community groups have begun their final weeks of summer water pollution monitoring. The New York/New Jersey Baykeeper and Friends ...
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide has signed a long-term agreement with Ryder System for the purchase and supply of complete compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel systems for trucks. With the agreement, Ryder will purchase ...
Tags: CNG Trucks, Ryder, Quantum Fuel Systems
U.S. manufacturers have grown more competitive over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil, and most of the world’s other major economies. So says a new private study, which found that rising wages and higher ...
Tags: Chinese electricity
The episode, titled Brick Like Me, is the most expensive Simpsons episode ever created. Fox has revealed the first look at the upcoming LEGO episode of The Simpsons. The shot, posted on the The Simpsons Facebook page, sees Homer ...
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