Farmers got 10% of the nation's corn crop planted in the last week. That's not bad considering the cool, damp conditions up to this week, but it's still well off the normal pace, according to Monday's weekly USDA-NASS Crop Progress report. ...
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China has officially unveiled this year’s energy policies and will continue to develop renewable energy. To drive investment and demand to installations, the Chinese government implemented some feed-in tariff (FiT) programs and ...
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Hindustan Tin Works (HTW), prominent Indian can and end maker, will celebrate the export of its “1 billion ends” at the Metal Packaging Plaza during Interpack. Atit Bhatia, sr. vice-president, HTW, said: “We are a ...
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Trelleborg's new tire plant will supply ag tires to the original equipment and replacement markets in North America Trelleborg AB says it will build a $50 million radial agricultural tire plant in Spartanburg, S.C. Production is expected ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce, based on its investigation of solar-grade polysilicon imported from member countries of the European Union, has decided to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs for two years. China-based ...
Companies will not have to explicitly declare whether their products contain minerals that originated in mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo or its neighboring countries, according to the SEC. The SEC issued an order Friday staying ...
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The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) vision is touted to result in homes, offices and cities becoming gradually interconnected. No single company owns the machine-to-machine (M2M) and the IoT concepts of course; so for this vision to ...
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a circuit board having integrated passive devices such as inductors, capacitors, resistors and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a ...
Export from technological and industrial zones in the first quarter of 2014 amounted to 250 million euros and there was a growth of 95% compared to last year, show data of the Directorate for Technological and Industrial Development Zones ...
An electronic component includes an interposer, and a multilayer ceramic capacitor. The interposer includes a substrate including front and back surfaces that are parallel or substantially parallel to each other. Two first mounting ...
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SARL News report that scientists at George Washington University have devised a new technique to manufacture super-capacitors at a fraction of the current cost. The research team made the new ultracapacitor out of grapheneGraphene is an ...
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Transcontinental has completed the previously announced acquisition of flexible packaging producer Capri Packaging from Schreiber Foods for $133m. According to Transcontinental, the acquisition will add around $72m revenues to the ...
UNSW Australia researchers have invented a new type of tiny lab-on-a-chip device that could have a diverse range of applications, including to detect toxic gases, fabricate integrated circuits and screen biological molecules. The novel ...
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Ioxus, a manufacturer of ultracapacitor technology for use in transportation, industrial and energy applications, has opened of its second manufacturing facility in Oneonta, New York. The 22'000 sq. ft. plant, located less than a mile ...
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Malaysian biodiesel producer, AJ Oleo Industries, has restarted its 100,000 mt/year plant at Segamat in Johor state, CEO Kasim Nani said Monday. Recommissioned early last month, the plant will supply 3,000-4,000 mt/month of palm methyl ...