The plastics machinery rebound is continuing this year, according to the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.’s Committee on Equipment Statistics. Also, Washington-based SPI is releasing statistics on thermoforming equipment for the ...
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Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has introduced USB interface modules which are aimed at the Raspberry Pi (RPi) computing platform. The Raspberry Pi embedded computing platform is inexpensive enough to be used in schools and ...
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iC-LO is a triangulation sensor from German fabless chip company iC-Haus. For use in diffuse reflective photoelectric sensors, the IC includes a linear array of 129 photodiodes, signal conditioning circuitry, a 1.2A LED driver, and a ...
Imager supplier e2v has increased the resolution of its Sapphire family of global shutter CMOS imaging sensors with a 2Mpixel 1600 x 1200 pixel device. The EV76C570 device features an identical CLCC48 package with only a minor change in ...
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The Society of Plastics Industry Inc. Today signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association. The two trade groups agree to exchange web links, publications and reports, business and market ...
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The US plastics industry has an “extremely good chance” to recover to production levels from before the global recession by the end of this year, barring a Eurozone meltdown or other unforeseen economic shocks, a senior official ...
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Prior to the pricing mania that exists today, the last big party for fluoropolymers occurred in the late 1990s when demand was growing and pricing was firm in the years leading up to Y2K. However, in the first decade of new millennium, ...
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Plastic bag bans won’t be the only issue on the state and local legislative fronts that the plastics industry will have to contend with this year. A number of communities are looking to enact bans on polystyrene takeout containers, ...
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Here’s a message from people who sell injection molding machines: The joy is back. Sales have increased for two years in a row, after a steady 10-year decline. That should continue in 2012. The U. S. Injection press market is nearing ...
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The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. believes that NPE 2012 can avoid a repeat of the last show in 2009, when several big Japanese machinery firms threatened to pull out of the event during the worst of the global financial crisis, my ...
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SPI Solar said it has sold $42 million worth of solar panels to a New Jersey solar energy developer. The Roseville-based company, formerly known as Solar Power Inc., said the sale to KDC Solar LLC is part of a three-year agreement to ...
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What a difference a year makes. In late 2010, solar panel makers were sold out, Germany was gobbling up record numbers of the clean energy systems, and new markets were steadily growing. Now, the erosion of subsidies in Germany and Italy, ...
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What a difference a year makes. In late 2010, solar panel makers were sold out, Germany was gobbling up record numbers of the clean energy systems, and new markets were steadily growing. Now, the erosion of subsidies in Germany ...
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The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc has launched an unprecedented marketing campaign in Latin America for NPE 2012, the show’s 27th edition. It's “a more ambitious [marketing] program than for any previous NPE, ” Bob ...
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