Volunteers sponsored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, were in Washington, D.C., last week to thank Congressional representatives for recent support for photonics R&D and to urge future support for in several key ...
Tags: photonics, Photonics Society, Electrical
San Shing Fastech, one of the major fastener manufacturers in Taiwan, announced its sales revenue in whole 2012 totaled NT$5.048 billion, falling by 18.4% from a year ago. Its gross profit rate in whole 2012 was 14.69%, lower than 18.03% in ...
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MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and Sidense Corp., a developer of logic non-volatile memory one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores today ...
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Japan and the European Union (EU) announced on March 25 that the two economies had decided to launch formal trade talks. European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Japanese Prime ...
Tags: Automobile, Auto Parts, Transportation
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has signed a distribution agreement with Alphatec relating to the greater China region. The cooperation will market Plessey's EPIC sensors (Electronic Potential Integrated Circuit) together with ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Plessey Semiconductors, EPIC technology
Indonesia has imposed antidumping (AD) duty on cold rolled coil and sheet imports from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam to prevent material injury to domestic producers, as reported by Indonesian newspaper Jakarta Post. The ...
Tags: CRC, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, cold rolled coil
Manz AG of Reutlingen, Germany, which supplies integrated production lines for crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film solar modules (as well as lines flat-panel displays), says it is demonstrating the standards of its CIGSfab ...
Tags: PV modules, solar cells, solar modules
Russia-based steelmaking and mining giant Evraz has announced that it has successfully completed the preliminary qualifications required to become a supplier of railway wheels for the German national railway company Deutsche Bahn. As a ...
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Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, an agency of the US Department of Commerce) have tested ...
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Mongolian coking coal miner SouthGobi Resources has announced that it has resumed mining at Ovoot Tolgoi mine on March 22 and plans to produce 3.2 million of soft-coking coal during the rest of 2013. SouthGobi Resources produced 1.33 ...
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Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have succeeded in developing electrically powered nano-scale lasers that operate effectively at room temperature – a step that could pave the way for their use in a variety of practical ...
Food packaging manufacturer Seda UK said that it is investing £18m over the next five years in a major expansion at its Blackwood facility and creating 70 new jobs The Welsh firm also said that it was safeguarding more than 170 ...
Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA says that its subsidiary Magnolia Solar Inc has demonstrated a flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell with an energy conversion efficiency of 13%, rivaling the ...
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Telford & Wrekin Council's ongoing project to better the lighting and reduce street illuminations energy consumption around the borough is set to continue, with the villages of Burford, Bridgwood and Bembridge in Brookside next in line to ...
Tags: Street lighting, lighting, LED illuminations
According to the data provided by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat), in February this year, there is no record of ferrous scrap exports from Georgia to Turkey, which is one of Georgia's main trading partners. In January ...
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