Tridonic has announced the departure of CEO Walter Ziegler and COO Rüdiger Kofahl. A"technology shift to LEDs"has been cited as the reason for the shakeup that will see both men step down at the end of January. During the interim ...
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Overlack Furniertechnik and Ukspron,both formerly subsidiaries of Overlack Holding,have been sold in the framework of separate management buyouts(MBO).The buyer of the Czech subsidiary is the management team headed by the present manager ...
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The Northern Lights is expected to be visible over Ireland in the coming weeks. The solar phenomena, otherwise known as the Aurora Borealis, has its best chance of being seen in more than a decade because of a peak in the sun’s ...
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Nick Farraway,head of Europe for Havells Sylvania Havells India has announced a 50:50 joint venture with Shanghai Yaming lighting,a Chinese lighting company. The joint venture will see$50 million invested in a new manufacturing unit in ...
Tags: Havells, Shanghai Yaming Lighting, green lighting, annual turnover
Hoare Lea is to relocate its London office to the Western Transit Shed in King's Cross in autumn 2012. The award-winning engineering firm has agreed a 15-year lease with the King's Cross Central Limited Partnership for the 22,000 sq ft ...
Ruud Lighting,recently acquired by Cree,is investing$24.5 million in a 208,000 sq ft expansion to its manufacturing facility in Racine Wisconsin.The expanded facility,which will house manufacturing lines for new and existing LED lighting ...
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ASLEC and HEMSA have agreed to merge and form a new organisation called the Highway Electrical Association(HEA). The two organisations,which represent highway electrical contractors and lighting manufacturers in the sector,said the ...
The Carbon Trust is looking to partner up with energy-efficient lighting suppliers through its new supplier accreditation scheme. The Carbon Trust Implementation scheme is designed to help UK businesses reduce their energy costs by ...
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Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager for LED lighting at Verbatim,considers how OLEDs are evolving as complementary sources of indoor lighting. Organic light emitting diodes(OLEDs)now appear in a host of commercial ...
Advanced Micro Devices hopes to brush off a slow start to compete against ARM and Intel in the Windows 8 tablet market through new customer announcements and future chips. The company will announce between six to 19 tablets for its Z-60 ...
Tags: AMD, ARM, Windows 8 tablets, tablets chips, Fujitsu
CEO and chairman of Cree,Chuck Swoboda Cree has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2012. Revenue stood at$269m for the first quarter of fiscal 2012(ended September 25),an 0.2 per cent increase ...
Tags: Cree, LED manufacturer, Financial Results
On March 11 this year,Russian steelmaker Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works(MMK)was reported to be considering the acquisition of all shares of the joint venture MMK-Atakas Metalurji San.Tic ve Liman Isletmeciligi A.S.(MMK-Atakas)which it ...
Tags: MMK, Russia, steelmaker, Turkish, Atakas Sirketler Grubu
The lighting arm of the business grew 7 per cent,bolstered by 32 per cent growth in LED sales Philips has announced a cost reduction programme that will include 4,500 job losses.The company made the announcement after registering a fall ...
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Vicon,developer of motion capture systems for the entertainment,life science and engineering industries,will introduce a future technology,"Mobile Mocap"at SIGGRAPH 2011.Moving mocap out of the lab and into the field,Vicon's mobile motion ...
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Rune Marki,LIF president and Jonathan Lucas,president of the Lighting Association The Lighting Association(LA)and the Lighting Industry Federation(LIF)are to merge following a period of consultation with their members. The associations ...
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