General Motors is expanding the recall of certain 2003-2007 model year vehicles to correct a condition with the ignition switch that may allow the key to unintentionally move or switch to the “accessory” or “off” ...
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Tom Kimmerle, branch manager of Walters – Westminster retired at the end of January after 45 years with the company. Tom has been a valuable member of the Walters' team since 1968. He started in the warehouse making deliveries and ...
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Power management company Eaton recently announced a $54 million investment in its Waukesha-based Cooper Power Systems business. The project, which calls for expanding one facility and renovating two others, will help Eaton meet growing ...
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The industrial world as we know it is changing rapidly, making more and more advances and coming up with new processes every day. This means that the supplemental processes that keep these industries functional, like logistics and ...
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Members of the British Retail Consortium have set themselves an ambitious target of reducing energy-related building emissions by 50 per cent by 2020. The cut, compared to a 2005 baseline, follows BRC members beating their previous target ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA - which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services - has reported full-year net sales of $3.309bn for ...
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In 2013, China's total crude steel output was 779 million mt, up 7.5 percent year on year, according to a report on the overall situation in Chinese industry in 2013 released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ...
The standard will see the introduction of safe, high quality and energy efficient lighting products to the UAE market, as well as the phasing out of low quality, inefficient lighting products. These measures will reduce energy consumption ...
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IBM has set a new speed record for data transmission over multimode optical fiber (which is typically used to connect nearby computers within a single building or on a campus). The researchers reckon that the achievement demonstrated that ...
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GfK Retail and Technology has released its quarterly report on the state of the electrical retailing industry in what it calls “Technical Consumer Goods (TCG), painting a mixed picture across varying segments in both the consumer ...
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JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys are among the retailers and service providers that were recognised last week for their outstanding levels of customer satisfaction in 2013 at the Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards, hosted by Roy Morgan ...
Semiconductor maker Entropic has teamed with Netgear to introduce what they call "the first MoCA 2.0 certified product on the market" – the Netgear WM2500RP MoCA-to-Wi-Fi extender. Available now through service providers, the ...
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The use of semiconductors in optoelectronic applications has had a bit of thickness problem. For photovoltaics, the need for relatively thick semiconductor thin films has added some significant cost to their manufacture. In other ...
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Engineers trying to speed up communication between computer chips have been working on using beams of light to replace the copper traces that shuttle data between microprocessors. Now a pair of researchers at Northeastern University in ...
Wearable technology maker Fitbit Inc. has stopped sales of its $130 Force wristband and is recalling it after the fitness gear caused skin problems for some customers. CEO and co-founder James Park says about 1.7 percent of users reported ...
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