EU carbon dioxide allowances crashed to a nine-month low Friday, as speculators unwound long positions ahead of data due next week and expected to signal weak demand, traders said. EU Allowance futures contracts for December 2014 delivery ...
Scientists and regulators investigating the mysterious spread of a deadly virus plaguing the U.S. pork industry are stepping up their scrutiny of what the nation's hog herd eats. With a dearth of solid leads, investigators are exploring ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced the completion of the deal announced on March 19 for a pre-export finance facility (PXF) with a club of international banks in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in February of the current year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 11.49 billion ($1.09 billion), increasing by 7.9 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Metal, Steel
Macy's, Inc. announced that Jeffrey Gennette, who has served for the past five years as Macy's chief merchandising officer, has been elected president of the corporation, effective immediately. He will report to Terry J. Lundgren, Macy's, ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Dent 200 was created by designer Chak as an installation for the innermost stand at designjunction 2013. It spans two metres in diameter, with an interlocking cell structure based around a truncated icosahedron form; the form most commonly ...
Tags: Dent 200, elasticated fabric
The polyester fiber used to make a range of 3M floor pads for floor maintenance will now contain a minimum of 50% post-consumer recycled content. "The 3M product team extensively tested the product to ensure the new floor pads have the ...
Tags: Floor Pads, 3M Floor Pads, Recycled Content
The global semiconductor industry will remain promising in the second and third quarters of 2014, according to Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The production value of Taiwan’s ...
A direct current (DC) link capacitor module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) formed by sequentially disposing a first electrodeA solid electric conductor through which an electric current enters or leaves in a medium substrate, an ...
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A multilayer ceramic capacitor, whose CR product can be prevented from dropping with certainty even at a thickness of 1.0 μm or less, includes multiple unit capacitors wherein a part constituted by two adjacent internal electrodeA solid ...
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At the 39th annual Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology (GOMACTech 2014) conference in Charleston, SC, USA (3 April), Alex Lidow, CEO & co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, ...
Tags: DC-DC Converter, EPC
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that customers have deployed more than 1 ...
Tags: PICs, integrated circuits
Continuing its ‘Mid-Power March’ series of product announcements, Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that its LUXEON 3535 2D mid-power LED (launched in May 2013) has had its typical flux output boosted by 10%, delivering ...
Tags: MID-Power LED, LUXEON, CCT
Sun Yat-sen University in China has improved the wall-plug efficiency of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on silicon by incorporating a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) [Yibin Yang et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: InGaN LEDs, Silicon, semiconductor
According to local news reports, the roof of US Steel’s Ecorse, Michigan facility collapsed Thursday night when a 200-foot-long, 20-foot-wide pipe that transfers steelmaking waste broke free while a contractor was cleaning it. No ...
Tags: Steel Plant, steelmaking