In its interim results for the first six months ending July 31, 2014, UK-based fashion retailer NEXT said it had a good first half, achieving sales and profits ahead of its original expectations. Led primarily by retail stores sales ...
Tags: Apparel, Fashion Apparel
Aaron Franklin has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry. Leaving IBM's research enterprise for a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Linetec offers "Antimicrobial Protection for Public Building Applications," a new white paper. Co-authored by Linetec, The Sherwin-Williams Company and Microban International, Ltd.. The new white paper describes the uses and advantages of ...
Tags: Linetec, white paper, infused coatings
Leviton today announced the acquisition of BitWise Controls, LLC, a leader in design and manufacture of control and monitoring solutions for residential and commercial facilities. Leviton has been carrying BitWise Controls' automation ...
New orders to U.S. production plants soared a record 10.5 percent in July on a 74 percent bookings spike in the volatile transportation sector. The somewhat misleading double-digit gain was propelled by an eye-popping 317.3 percent surge in ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Hardware
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has teamed up with research institution Fraunhofer IISB (Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology) in Erlangen, Germany, to develop 150mm silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxy ...
Tags: Aixtron CVD SiC, Electrical, Electronics
Global meat packing company Hilton Food Group has witnessed a decline in revenue in the first half of its financial year. For the 28 weeks to 13 July 2014, revenue was £592.3m, a 0.3%, decline from £593.8m in the first half of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Meat
Polaris, the U.S. manufacturer of off-road vehicles, has entered the rapidly emerging U.S. market for e-bikes by launching a mountain bike powered by an electric drive system developed by EVantage USA Inc. at Interbike 2014. Adam Rand, ...
Matteo Renzi, Italian prime minister, and Enrico Rossi, president of the region of Tuscany, held talks at the weekend with JSW Steel chairman Sajjan Jindal, as the Indian giant considers investing in some of the country's steel assets. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Epiluvac AB of Lund, Sweden says that it is now offering silicon carbide (SiC) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) epitaxy reactors in various configurations. As one of the most interesting semiconductor materials in electrical power ...
Evonik has invested in its German operations with new large-scale industrial plants, capacity expansions, and new research centers. The company plans to invest some two billion Euros of the extensive investment program it has developed as ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
The U.S. government finally acknowledged Friday it cannot determine which refiners and smelters around the world are financially fueling violence in the war-torn Congo region. The Commerce Department published a list of more than 400 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Croatia-based specialist packaging producers EcoCortec has created marine biodegradable film products to help tackle the plastic packaging waste polluting the oceans across the world. Biobased polymer technology has been used to create ...
Tags: Biodegradable Film, Bags, Packaging
Numerous developments in the area of vehicle safety are significantly influenced as a result of current NCAP or NHTSA regulations and then realized and implemented by manufacturers and their suppliers. The situation in China is similar, ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Auto Technology, Car, Automobile
Port of Melbourne's new container terminal, operated by Victoria International Container Terminal Ltd (VICTL), will be fitted out with EUR 40 million (approx. AUD 100 million) worth of Cargotec (Kalmar) container handling equipment and ...