Specialty chemicals group Altana has acquired NuLabel Technologies, which develops engineering and material science solutions to enhance packaging design using less material. The companies have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. ...
Impossible Foods says that it has passed important milestones for food safety, including a unanimous expert-panel affirmation of the safety of a key ingredient used in its products. A panel of food safety and allergy experts at three ...
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API said it will unveil research findings from its Package Insight study at the Packaging Innovations fair in London this September. The brand enhancement specialist says that its focus will be on products and services that can take ...
III-V optoelectronic foundry Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CST Global, a subsidiary of Sweden-based Sivers IMA Holding AB) of Hamilton International Technology Park, Blantyre, near Glasgow, Scotland, UK says that it is ...
Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA claims the first demonstration of 1kV-class aluminium nitride (AlN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Houqiang Fu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 5 July 2017]. AlN has a wide bandgap of 6.2eV. ...
Tags: semiconductor, MOCVD
Scientist at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricity and carbon dioxide. Protein produced in this way can be further ...
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Esko has organized the Flexible Packaging Honours Class, an initiative of the Graphical and Digital Media department of the Artevelde University College Ghent. Intended for ambitious and talented students at the top of their university ...
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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
A survey commissioned by A Plastic Planet has revealed that more than 9 in 10 Britons want a plastic-free aisle in supermarkets. Populus survey of 2,000 UK adults was carried out see whether people support or oppose the introduction of an ...
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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 ...
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Chinese paper and pulp company Anhui Shanying Paper Industry has agreed to acquire Swedish firm Nordic Paper from Special Situation Venture Partner lll and Petek. Special Situation Venture Partner lll and Petek, each hold 60% and 40% ...
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Through the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative Program (which to drive down the cost of solar electricity and support solar adoption), Stion Corp of Hattiesburg, MS, USA has been awarded a $956,630 grant and, in conjunction ...
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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) ...
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A new fruit packaging solution which features Sirane's shelf-life extending technology has demonstrated significant shelf-life extension with punnets of cut fruit. The new packaging range has been developed in collaboration with Ilip, an ...
Tags: Packaging Solution, Packaging
Working in collaboration with LioniX International BV of Enschede, The Netherlands, researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have developed what is claimed to be the most narrowband diode laser on a chip, ...
Tags: Narrowband Laser, Netherlands