In order to curb environmental pollution and upgrade local industry, from 2015 to 2020 China's Hebei Province will gradually increase its pollution discharge fees in three steps, as announced by the provincial authorities. During the ...
Tags: steel, oil, chemical, ferrous metal, Metallurgy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken another step forward today to reduce pollution and protect air quality in Northern Idaho’s West Silver Valley. Late yesterday, the EPA officially finalized nationwide area ...
Tags: air quality, Air Pollution, Construction
US based, Environmental Testing and Research Laboratories (ETR) said it has developed a method for simply and quickly verifying levels of formaldehyde in apparel. Very often when garments are manufactured offshore, it is necessary to ...
Tags: formaldehyde, Apparel
Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials, hogged the limelight at the UK fashion business event, Drapers Fashion Forum 2014, held in London. The event, co-sponsored by Lectra ...
Tags: soft materials, Textile
Chinese companies are feeling the chill from the rouble crisis, with automobile and food trading firms aching the most. Automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co has started to increase the prices of its vehicles in Russia to offset losses ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced commercial availability of XLamp Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs, a new class of LEDs enabling a system cost reduction of up to 40% for lighting applications, it is claimed. The first LEDs powered ...
Tags: Cree LED, Single LED
The Welsh Government has published guidance on waste management, ahead of new EU legal requirements on the separate collection of waste paper, metal, plastic and glass for recycling, due to come into force at the start of next year. All ...
Tags: Waste Management, waste paper
Sony has pushed out a frustratingly abstract video in hopes of whetting consumer appetites for its wares ahead of CES. The lady-filled piece is largely a montage of what appears to be utter randomness The lady-filled montage appears to ...
Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA, a developer of performance-driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), has added to its growing line of standard gallium nitride (GaN) products with the CMD219, a 4-9GHz low-noise amplifier ...
Tags: 4-9GHz low-noise amplifier, monolithic microwave, Electrical
The US Department of Energy (DOE)’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has demonstrated a conversion efficiency of 45.7% for a four-junction solar cell at 234 suns concentration, representing one of the highest photovoltaic ...
Tags: CPV Solar Cell, Electrical
With the national 4 emission standard to be carried out in China formally, sales of a lot of power companies continued declined. But Yuchai Power is getting ready as the first China engine maker to produce engines with national 4 emission ...
Tags: 4E engine, segment markets, Auto
On December 10, 2014, Shacman natural gas port tractor delivery ceremony was held in Liaoning Yingkou port. Shacman port tractor won the favor of customers in Yingkou port with advantages of energy saving, environmental protection and smart ...
Tags: energy saving, environmental protection, smart driving, Auto
Indonesia’s ability to export sustainable forestry products has just been given an adrenalin boost. All products recognised by the Indonesian Forestry Certification Cooperation (IFCC) will receive automatic accreditation from the ...
Tags: Forestry Products, Packaging
Ardagh has given Norwegian seafood company, King Oscar a very merry Christmas. First, the standout can’s King Oscar Easy Peel lid won Silver in Ends, Caps & Closures at the Canmaker Summit in Hong Kong. Then, the piece de ...
ALLOS Semiconductors GmbH of Dresden, Germany, which was founded in June, says that it has acquired (via auction) the exclusive ownership of all technology, know-how and intellectual property of the former AZZURRO Semiconductors AG, which ...
Tags: patent landscape, market, technology strategy, Electrical