After a short break at the end of January/beginning of February, the upward trend in softwood lumber prices on the US market has remained unabated over the last four weeks. According to Random Lengths, the price for the benchmark grade of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, softwood lumber
Computer networks of banks and some broadcasters in South Korea were hit Wednesday in what is suspected to be a cyber attack, according to news reports. At least three broadcasters and two banks reported to the National Police Agency that ...
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The unexpectedly brisk recovery in the US building industry and increasing exports of softwood lumber to China and Japan are currently putting many Canadian and US timber groups in an optimistic frame of mind. Producers are working from the ...
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Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA) has announced the support of its FD-Series Spectrodensitometers by CyberChrome’s OnColor Color QC and Color Matching Software. Released in 2011 the FD-Series Spectrodensitometers were the ...
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The downturn in German particleboard exports slowed a little between October and December 2012 after the second and third quarters had ended with a drop in shipments. Preliminary figures released by the German Federal Statistical Office ...
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In the last few months, UK prices for imported softwood lumber have risen by up to £20/m3 for exchange-rate reasons. The strength of the British pound against the relevant currencies has decreased considerably since March 2012. The ...
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A few DIY stores have scaled back their OSB promotions in February and March after advertising this product more at relatively low prices for a short time in January. At the same time, DIY stores raised their promotional prices compared ...
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Arizona Polymer Flooring (APF), a manufacturer of high-performance flooring products and concrete coating systems, announces the launch of ColorChrome™ Metallic Flooring Systems, a high-performance resinous flooring system providing ...
Results of the Italian woodworking machinery producer Biesseslipped further into the negative territory and turnover dipped 1.4% to €383.1m in 2012. Adjusted for extraordinary items EBIT was largely stable at €7m at the pre-vious ...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, ...
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Micrel has signed a distribution deal with catalogue and online firm Mouser Electronics. Mouser will stock Micrel's product portfolio includes analogue, power, mixed-signal, and RF chips. It also includes ICs for communications, clock ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), optical solution provider Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) introduced its next generation of active optical cables ...
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Power Integrations had rolled its Expert Suite PSU design software to version 9.0, extending LED driver capability and improving schematic manipulation. "Expert Suite now includes support for LinkSwitch-PL and LinkSwitch-PH LED-driver ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim, California (19-21 March), analog semiconductor maker M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA has launched what it claims ...
Tags: M/A-COM, CFP/CFP2 Applications, Electronics
Fabless silicon CMOS photonics firm Luxtera of Carlsbad, CA, USA is participating in the Optical Internetworking Forum’s (OIF) multi-vendor 4 x 25G chip-to-module interoperability demonstration at the Optical Fiber Communication ...
Tags: Luxtera, Silicon CMOS, Silicon photonics