A wall-crawling robot inspired by the gecko has taken a small but important step towards a future in space, scientists said on Thursday. The tiny legged prototype could be the forerunner of automatons which crawl along the hulls of ...
Tags: wall-crawling robot, spacecraft, European Space Agency
The Deep Sub-Micron Embedded SRAM firm, sureCore, has won two significant awards at the prestigious Elektra 2013 European electronics industry awards. The company won both the design team of the year category and the much-coveted company ...
Tags: Electronics, Consumer Electronics
The famous Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings recently put out a report noting that Taiwan's economy has shifted to a virtual dependency on IT supply chain businesses. The briefing paper, which can be found here, has some pretty serious ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, taiwan
Trade group ZVEI warned on Thursday, however, that European producers were still facing a number of uncertainties, including fallout from the euro zone debt crisis and Germany pushing through its planned shift to a greener energy mix. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
With the defeat of the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this vast blighted country is poised for a brighter future. But a new US law designed to help the region escape its poverty looks set to do just the opposite. ...
Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, M23 rebels, conflict minerals
Appliance Retailer will be on Christmas and New Year holidays from Thursday 19 December 2013 to Monday 6 January 2014. During this time, the Appliance Retailer website will only be updated with the continuation of our Editor's Picks ...
BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
Tags: BASF, build a compounding plant, polyamide, polybutylene terephthalate
The China based high-quality capacitor manufacturer, Shanghai Jinpei Electronic Company announces that they have successfully developed a new series of Multilayer ceramic capacitors.The main differences between ceramic dielectricThe ...
Around 50 companies are expected to be listed on the Chinese bourse by the end of January, according to a statement by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on November 30th in regards to further promoting the reform of the IPO ...
Despite the low growth, but the global financial situation has improved and the world economy began to pick up.In this occasion, the electronics industry has a great developing prospect.As a member of the electronics industry, battery ...
Tags: Battery, VRLA Battery, SLA Battery, Gel Battery, Lithium-ion Battery
Polylactic Acid (PLA) is thermoplastic polyester derived from renewable feedstock such as corn starch, sugarcane, wheat, tapioca roots. PLA has wide application such as in Packaging, Textile, Agriculture, Transportation, Bio-Medical and ...
Tags: Polylactic Acid, PLA, Chemicals
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that, in a gala ceremony at the 2013 Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards in London, UK on 27 November, its Group CEO Dr Drew Nelson was presented with ...
Tags: IQE Elektra, Electrical, Electronics
Belgium-based Europlasma, one of the world leaders in low pressure plasma technology, presents a new family of conformal nanocoatings for the electronics industry under the Nanofics brand name. Nanofics refers to nanoscaled ...
Tags: Europlasma, Nanofics, Productronica 2013
In Sweden, industrial production was unchanged in September this year compared to August and fell 0.9 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). The SCB said that development remained mixed ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
Adhesives are a part of all aspects of daily life and beyond: at home and at the office, in sports and leisure goods as well as in industrial processing and many other segments. Given their versatility and increasing performance, they are ...