Researchers from John Innes Centre (JIC) and Michigan State University’s Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center (UPREC) have collaborated to ramp up malting barley development for use in craft brewing. The collaboration comes ...
Japanese food producer Ajinomoto will enter the Indonesian bread market to ramp up expansion of its consumer foods business in the country as well as build a frozen noodle production plant in the US. The company will establish Ajinomoto ...
Tags: Frozen Noodles, Food
IC orders for PCs have remained slow thus far in 2015, whereas orders for handsets and consumer electronics devices are picking up prior to the third quarter peak season, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. PC-related ...
German mechanical engineering firm Voith has bagged the order for producing carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) for models that carmaker Audi will produce in future. With both the firms joining hands to organize the ramp-up for the ...
Tags: CFRP Components, Audi Cars
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that Xiamen Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China has purchased multiple TurboDisc EPIK 700 gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor ...
Tags: LED, MOCVD Systems
In first-quarter 2015, smartphone sales reached 310 million units, up 7% year-on-year but slowing from the 19% year-on-year growth in Q4/2014 (which reached 346 million units). This was due to year-on-year shrinkage of -14% in China and -5% ...
Tags: Smartphone Sales, 4G Market
Great news is coming these days, especially for caregivers. We all know that May is National Mobility Awareness month. This year's campaign will focus on caregivers and their demand in regards to handicap minivans, helping them find optimal ...
For its fiscal second-quarter 2015 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA (which provides compound semiconductor-based components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics market) has reported revenue of ...
Tags: fiber-optics, Emcore
Guerrilla RF Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA, which provides monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) to wireless network infrastructure original equipment manufacturers, has closed a $2m Series B funding round led by two angel investors ...
Tags: MMICs, wireless network
Specialty food ingredients company Campus has partnered with White Bridge Investments to ramp up internationalization and commercial network expansion. Both the companies have signed an agreement to this effect. White Bridge, the new ...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2015 (ended 28 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $83m, down 13% on $95.4m a year ago and down 4% on ...
Tags: Oclaro, CFP2 Module
TreeHouse Foods has recorded first quarter earnings of $0.41 per fully diluted share when compared to $0.38 per fully diluted share reported for the first quarter of 2014. The Company reported adjusted earnings per share in the first ...
Tags: TreeHouse Foods, Q1 Results
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has announced initial production shipments of two modulator ...
Tags: Coherent Modules, metro market
Andros Foods North America is planning to invest $73m to ramp up fruit processing capacity in Shenandoah County, Virginia, over the next three years, while creating 160 new jobs. The investment will be used to add production and ...
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plans to spend over €500m at its plant in Termoli, Italy, to produce two new engines for its planned Alfa Romeo cars. The first variant is an advanced 4-cylinder engine, while the other is a Ferrari-derived ...
Tags: Fiat Chrysler, Alfa Romeo, Car Engines