PPG Industries today announced that it has completed a $27m expansion of its San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico, coatings manufacturing facility. The company marked completion of the project, which adds 115 new jobs, with a grand-opening ...
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The new Opel Astra is setting standards in efficiency, design, connectivity, with technologies from higher segments – and for the total cost of ownership. In order to make full use of this brand-typical strength, the Opel engineers ...
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Mitsubishi Electric announced that its EMIRAI 3 xDAS, concept car featuring next-generation driving-assistance technology that promises to enhance the safety and comfort of driving. EMIRAI 3 xDAS will be exhibited during the 44th Tokyo ...
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China’s exports to 70 countries under its “One Belt, One Road” strategy was up 1.5% to US$ 372 billion from January to June 2015, according to China’s custom data. The country’s imports declined 18.8% to US$ ...
PPG Industries has completed the expansion work worth $27m at its coatings manufacturing facility in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico. Work under the expansion included the addition of space for production, product development and ...
China’s Light Industry Internet (CLII) recently published important lighting product export statistics for three markets during the first six months of 2015, showed export growth was highest for the Argentina market, and plunged the ...
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China's slowing power consumption and falling railway freight are signs of progress in economic restructuring, rather than evidence of failing industry, the statistics chief said on Thursday. Power use and rail freight are two major ...
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At the International Symposium on Automotive Lighting (ISAL 2015) in Darmstadt, Germany (29–30 September), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany is unveiling the Oslon Black Flat S, a surface-mount technology (SMT) LED ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched new KR8 and LR6 LED downlights, designed to deliver better lighting performance and better value for new and existing commercial spaces. The new KR8 downlight ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the XLamp XQ-E High Intensity LED, which is claimed to be the first family of color LEDs optimized for optical performance. The drop-in upgrade for proven XQ-E ...
MGS Machine introduces the Pulse, a new high-speed friction feeder, at Pack Expo Las Vegas. Featuring five patent-pending design innovations, the Pulse eases maintenance with fast and easy removal of wear parts. With no tools required, ...
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Researchers based in China and Canada have developed single-mode ridge waveguide Fabry-Perot (RW FP) laser diodes using a pair of etched trenches that are slanted to reflect out unwanted wavelengths [Xun Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
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Power management company Eaton today announced that the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Committee has recognized four of its light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires for inclusion in the 2015 IES Progress Report. The Progress ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
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UK-based Plessey has developed a patented technology for chip-scale optics (CSO) based on its gallium nitride on silicon MaGIC (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) LEDs. Chip-scale optics permits the design of light emission angles down to ...
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