The world’s first plastic transmission crossbeam in the rear axle subframe has been developed by ContiTech Vibration Control and BASF for the S-Class from Mercedes-Benz. It is made from the engineering plastic Ultramid A3WG10 CR, a ...
Tags: plastic transmission crossbeam, Mercedes S-Class, polyamides
What is decribed as the first European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) to be sent into space has completed its second year of operations. Hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) on its Earth-observing Proba-V mini-satellite in ...
By the year 2020 the first cylinder housings manufactured from polymer composite materials will be introduced into passenger car and motorcycle engines, replacing the aluminium components currently in use, predicts SBHPP High Performance ...
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Lectra, an integrated technology solutions firm dedicated to industries using soft materials-fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials has announced that Bertrandt has chosen Lectra's DesignConcept solution to optimize ...
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Packaging firm Litecool has opened a clean room facility in the UK, for conducting research on LED packaging technologies, resulting in in-house transition of conception into pre-production. The new unit, armed with the equipment for ...
Tags: LED Packaging, LED arrays
Solar Junction Corp (SJC) of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes what are reckoned to be the highest-efficiency commercially available multi-junction solar cells for terrestrial concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) applications, has announced plans ...
German automotive major Daimler has introduced a slew of measures combining Dynamic Select with Adaptive Damping System to subject the virtual prototype of new-generation A-Class models to a set of driving situations before translating them ...
Tags: Daimler, Mercedes-Benz
In a talk and a tutorial at CLEO 2015 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) in San Jose, CA, USA (10-15 May), a team led by Paul Crump from FBH (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut fur Hoechstfrequenztechnik) of Berlin, Germany ...
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Research Institute Innventia is partnering with various organizations in Sweden to develop packaging systems that reduce food wastage. The institute has formed a consortium with materials and packaging producers, food producers, the ...
Tags: Food Wastage, Packaging
Switzerland-based PET products developer Sidel has launched a range of new packaging services to beverage manufacturers. The services include package and preform design, packaging optimization, liquid-package interaction analysis and ...
Tags: PET products, beverage
Gerber Technology has launched the AccuMark 10 intelligent pattern design, grading, planning, and marker making software solution. In addition to digital printing capabilities and other features that increase productivity throughout the ...
Tags: Gerber Technology, integrated 3D solution, garment development
Industrial, consumer and protective packaging provider Sonoco will be investing $11.8m in building a research and development facility for consumer packaging products in Hartsville. The company has already commenced the construction of ...
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has selected NXP Semiconductors to set up a S$22m ($16.2m) smart mobility test bed at the campus, to accelerate introducing life-saving vehicle communications. The move will support ...
In its recently updated roadmap document (first published in 2011, and last updated in 2013), the Joint European Platform for Photonic Integration of Components and Circuits (JePPIX) predicts a €1bn market size for PIC-enabled products ...
Tags: Magnolia Solar Flexible CIGS, foundry approach, Electronics
PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group produced the transparencies for the S-97 RAIDER rotorcraft prototype rolled out by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. The 14-square-foot windshields are polycarbonate laminates for high impact ...
Tags: PPG Industries, Polycarbonate, Construction