General Motors engineers are planning to use material used in diaper to simulate snow year round to maximize the heating capabilities of its cars. GM Vehicle Thermal Systems engineer Nicholas Jahn found out that sodium polyacrylate in ...
Tags: Vehicle Heating, windshield defrosting, Auto
Ford’s award-winning EcoBoost engine lineup not only has great EPA-estimated fuel economy ratings, it is also becoming a favorite family of engines in the performance tuning community. From the infancy of the automobile, tinkerers ...
For its fiscal full-year 2014 (to end-August), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $14.5m, down 19% on $18m in fiscal 2013 (with LED chips falling 12%, LED components 23%, and lighting ...
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Last year China leapfrogged past Germany to become the world’s largest market for solar equipment, according to industry figures. True, a September report showed the former is also set to push global carbon emissions to a record high ...
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For third-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8m (at the bottom of the $8-12m ...
Tags: 2-Inch Sapphire, Electronics
US Steel Canada announced Monday that it will lay off at least 56 workers following its decision last week to idle its Hamilton coke ovens. According to local news reports, the idling will eventually affect about 100 of the plant’s ...
Tags: coke ovens, Metallurgy
WASHINGTON, DC— There’s a new free, independent, online technology guide to help fleet owners double their fleet efficiency. The Carbon War Room, a non-profit firm owned by Sir Richard Branson, that aims to accelerate the ...
Tags: Cut Emissions, Save Money, Auto Parts
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, commissioned its second benzoic acid reactor train at its facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands, adding 75,000 metric tons of capacity for the production of benzoic ...
US-based paper manufacturing company International Paper will be investing $90m to restart an idle machine at its container board mill that will help in creating 65 new jobs. The machine has been out of use for the past five years. ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has developed dry-cut hobbing machines named GE10A which is designed to be used for machining of small-diameter gears used in vehicle automatic transmission systems. The GE10A is a new model of its flagship GE ...
FutureMark Alsip, a company that makes coated publication and printing papers from recycled materials, will indefinitely place its mill in idle mode due to challenging market conditions in the North American coated paper market. The ...
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Telecom company AT&T has introduced a new Fleet Management Solution to help transport companies increase productivity and improve safety. The service will deliver bundled solutions designed to fulfill the needs of governmental, ...
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Armstrong World Industries has released its second quarter results. Second Quarter Results from Continuing Operations Consolidated net sales increased slightly to $710.0 million compared to $706.6 in 2013 driven by favorable price and ...
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For second-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $14.5m, up slightly on $14.3m ...
Tirupur, India’s biggest cotton knitting textile hub is foraying in to manmade fibre apparels to beat the lean season they encounter in exports of knitted cotton garments. “Since exports of cotton based apparels are season ...
Tags: Tirupur, knitting textile, textile