Purdue and Harvard universities have produced stacked nanowire (NW) transistors with increased drive current and maximum transconductance. The results were presented on Wednesday 12 December at the International Electron Devices Meeting ...
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Rio Tinto Alcan and the employees represented by the Canadian Auto Workers Union have ratified an agreement for the early renewal and extension of labour contracts in Saguenay, Quebec to 2018. The agreement also includes a clause for the ...
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Business Standard reported that National Aluminium Company has resumed bauxite excavation at its Panchpatmali (North-Central block) mines nearly a month after it shut down operation at the site following expiry of lease deed on November 16. ...
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A fortnight after closure of its one million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh on December 5, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd said it will inform the Odisha labour department in two days on its plan to lay off employees. Mr Mukesh Kumar chief ...
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Press Trust of India reported that the Chhattisgarh government has suspended the factory licence of 1200-MW power plant of Vedanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (Balco) at Korba due to its non operation. The issue ...
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Reuters reported that Vedanta Aluminium Ltd is considering layoffs within two months at its alumina refinery in Odisha as hopes of an immediate revival of the plant fade. Mr Mukesh Kumar president of VAL told Reuters that "We don't know ...
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Mr Eivind Kallevik has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Norwegian aluminium company Norsk Hydro ASA. The appointment of Kallevik, currently head of Finance in Hydro's Bauxite & Alumina business ...
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Business Standard reported that the INR15,000 crore aluminium plant's joint venture between Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation and Nalco is progressing at a snail pace due to various issues including red tape. It is finally expected to ...
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Reuters reported that Japan's aluminium premiums for January to March shipments were mostly set at USD 240 to USD 245 per tonne, down from a record in the current quarter, reflecting easing demand as the world's third largest economy slips ...
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
International Aluminium Institute showed that global primary aluminum output averaged 67,600 tonne per day in November, up from 67,200 tonne per day in October, but down from 70,800 tonne per day in November 2011. Figures released ...
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IT trade body Intellect is calling for the chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne to abandon the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). Intellect argues that, since datacentres underpin a modern digital economy, the growth in data volumes ...
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Delos is Duravit's newest trend-setting bath collection, designed in collaboration with EOOS. In Delos, EOOS has taken the concept of clean, minimalist bath interiors to a new level – featuring elegantly floating cabinets, innovative ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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Mathieu Matégot Floor Lamp, ca.1950 Tubular steel, folded and perforated sheet steel 21 in diameter Images courtesy of art.sy December 5th through the 9th marked the exhibition of Design Miami at the Miami Beach Convention ...
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