Beckhoff, a global provider of PC-based control technology, has revealed its plans to showcase its automation technologies XTS, EtherCAT among others at this month’s Drinktec 2017 in Munich. The company says that its automation ...
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded its product lineup of infrared light-emitting diode (IR-LED) chips, which are mainly used as parts of photo-couplers for gate drivers in power semiconductor modules and parts of sensors for ...
Germany-based provider of packaging, printing, and specialty solutions Klockner Pentaplast will display its upgraded portfolio of rigid and flexible films for packaging at Pack Expo/Healthcare Packaging Expo 2017 on September 25 – 27 ...
Tags: medical devices, beverage
Bridgelux Inc of Fremont, CA, USA (a vertically integrated manufacturer of solid-state light sources for lighting applications) has filed a counter claim against Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd in the US District Court for the ...
Tags: Bridgelux, LED products
Researchers in Russia claim “the first demonstration of an injection quantum well microdisk laser fabricated of III-V materials monolithically grown on silicon (001) substrate” [N. V. Kryzhanovskaya et al, Optics Express, vol. ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Lasers
Israel-based Tipa has developed and manufactured a new technology that could solve the problem of non-recyclable flexible plastic. Food and beverage packaging accounts for more than half of the non-recyclable flexible plastic in the ...
Tags: Tipa, Plastic Recycling
US-based packaging firm Sonoco has completed its purchase of flexible and forming plastic packaging films manufacturer Clear Lam Packaging for about $170m. Clear Lam Packaging, which was established in 1969, operates manufacturing plants ...
Tags: Sonoco, Lam Packaging
Process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that ultraviolet short-wavelength light-emitting diodes (UV-C LEDs) research firm CrayoNano AS of Trondheim, Norway - which was founded in June 2012 based on research ...
Tags: UV-C LED, Graphene Growth
The Dow Chemical Company has developed a range of flexible packaging solutions to meet the requirements of the e-commerce market in Asia Pacific region. The company said that its patented expanded polyethylene (EPE) foam technology is a ...
ZEISS Group of Oberkochen, Germany is fueling its growth strategy by expanding into the process control market. Through its new Process Control Solutions (PCS) business unit - part of the ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) ...
Tags: ZEISS, Control Market
PolyOne has acquired North American color and additive materials producer Mesa for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1990, Mesa manufactures both solid and liquid colorant technologies, which can be used in a range of end markets such as ...
Tags: PolyOne, additive materials
Spectra Packaging has designed new eco-friendly bottle for natural skin care brand Pure Lakes. The company used biopolymer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to produce the new tubular design bottle for Pure Lakes. The new bottles have ...
Flexible packaging products manufacturer Bemis is planning to close two manufacturing facilities and separately cut about 300 jobs as part of its measures to reduce cost structure. The company unveiled its restructuring and cost savings ...
Tags: Flexible packaging, packaging
Sonoco has agreed to acquire Clear Lam Packaging for about $170m to expand its global flexible packaging and thermoforming plastics operations. Clear Lam Packaging, which was established in 1969, develops and manufactures flexible and ...
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has begun mass producing a new mid-power LED package, the LM301B (with samples available now), featuring what is claimed to be the industry’s highest luminous efficacy of 220 lumens per watt. ...