Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has posted a net loss of AU$82.4 million for the financial year 2013-14 ended on June 30, narrowing down from a net loss of AU$107.1 million in the previous financial year, due to increased spreads and ...
Tags: BlueScope Steel, Loss, Metallurgy
LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has announced sampling and volume availability of the first in its new Enhanced FlipChip (EF) LED series. The series launches with the EF-B40, a blue 40-mil flip chip that ...
Tags: SemiLEDs, LED series
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used photo-electro-chemical etch (PEC) to create 405nm-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [C. ...
AVX has introduced a new series of ultra broadband capacitors designed to address DC blocking from ~16KHz to 40GHz. Exhibiting ultra broadband performance, extremely low insertion loss, and excellent return loss, the new GX0S Series ...
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The Australian champion of bags that do better for the environment, Cardia Bioplastics, is setting up its own film and bag manufacturing plant in São Paulo, Brazil, to meet a surge in demand there. It has already leased its new ...
Innovative research has transformed the cotton industry in Australia, which now uses less land and water than in the past, according to the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), one of fifteen Rural Research and Development ...
Researchers in Taiwan have applied a non-vacuum process to deposit aluminium oxide (Al2O3) passivation for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Bo-Yi Chou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Transistor
Reed-Lane, a contract packaging provider in New Jersey, has expanded its 132,000ft2 facility by 30% to increase its overall production. As part of the expansion, the company is also adding fifth bottling line to the facility that includes ...
Tags: Reed-Lane, overall production, Packaging
Early in 2013, a research group led by Biome Bioplastics was awarded a grant by the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to investigate pulp and paper by-product, lignin, as a new source of organic chemicals for ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Bioplastic bag
European packaging producer Greiner Packaging International has designed new cup container for French dairy firm Senoble for its strawberry yogurt product Delisse Yaourt au lait entire. The unique design and shatterproof properties of the ...
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The China Packaging Tour is all about sightseeing – the kind of sightseeing that will pay you back in business contacts and new opportunities for business growth. China has the largest population in the world - around 1.35 billion ...
An international team of researchers has been exploring nanomembranes of beta-phase gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) as a channel material for high-voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) [Wan Sik Hwang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Transistor
AU Optronics' (AUO) Solar Business Group is establishing Sungen Power, the largest rooftop PV power-generating station so far in Taiwan, at its panel factories in central Taiwan, according to company vice president and business group ...
Uniden has extended its range of "crash cam" in-car vehicle recorders, which are often used in trucks, with the release of the iGO Cam 750. The new crash cam is designed for drivers wanting to protect themselves from road-related ...
Tags: Crash Camera, Camera
Canadian miner Pan American Silver believes Argentina this year will lift its ban on open-pit mining that forced the company to suspend operations at its Navidad gold project, CEO Geoff Burns said Wednesday. The Vancouver-based company, ...
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