Audi is increasing production of its first plug-in hybrid model, Audi A3 Sportback e-tron at the company’s main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany. Initially the company produced 30 cars per day and now Audi is planning to increase the ...
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The market for discrete power electronics components – used to convert and manage electricity in devices ranging from mobile phones to pumps and motors – will grow by 77% from $13bn today to $23bn in 2024, according to the ...
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has commissioned two new expansions at its Rayong, Thailand manufacturing facility to serve the growing Asian market demand for specialty chemicals. Commissioning took place as part of part of the 10th ...
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Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL) today reported revenue of $41.6 million for its third quarter ended September 30, 2014, down 10 percent from the $46.1 million recorded in the second quarter ended June 30, 2014, and down 19 percent ...
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Electrical test instrument and system provider Keithley Instruments Inc of Cleveland, OH, USA has introduced new enhancements to its parametric curve tracer (PTC) configurations that incorporate high-power SourceMeter source measure unit ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc (MACOM) of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a high-power PIN diode single-pole three-throw ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has introduced its Acrich MJT 3030 LED. Using Seoul Semiconductor’s high-reliability Acrich MJT technology, the MJT 3030 LED offers improved performance and high lm/$ in a mid-power package, ...
Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corporation, has increased capacity at its precipitated alumina trihydrate (ATH) plant in Bauxite, Arkansas by 30 percent. “Huber has a long-term, multi-stage plan to ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has teamed up with research institution Fraunhofer IISB (Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology) in Erlangen, Germany, to develop 150mm silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxy ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) ...
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AACHEN, Germany — ZF has produced a prototype system that can maneuver a long combination vehicle up to a loading dock precisely with no driver in the cab at all. Perhaps with no driver anywhere to be seen, because anyone who can ...
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Which product ranges are selling well for manufacturers and why are specifiers buying them? Francis Pearce speaks with a selection of lighting manufacturers to get an idea of what's really going on in the lighting industry "Electric ...
In recent years, the optoelectronic component market has been dominated by a number of applications, namely LEDs, backlighting and the emergence of solid state lighting. In the optocoupler and photo-relay markets, the focus has been on the ...
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US based car maker Renovo Motors unveiled the production prototype of Renovo Coupe, a two-seater all electric vehicle at the 2014 Pebble Beach Concourse d’Elegance. The car uses patent-pending battery technology, and the multiple ...
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SAN DIEGO, July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL) today reported revenue of $46.1 million for its second quarter ended June 30, 2014, up slightly from the $46.0 million recorded in the first quarter ...
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