The Government of Zimbabwe has granted a one-year rebate to 52 clothing manufacturers which will allow them to import textile materials duty-free for use in garment making. The Ministry of Finance has granted a one-year reprieve ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has demonstrated a 1-sun photovoltaic (PV) solar energy conversion efficiency of 15.3% using a gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: GaAs, PV, Electronics
SAGE SatCom of San Diego, CA, USA (part of telecoms solutions provider REMEC Broadband Wireless), which provides compact Ka-band block up-converter (BUC) and transceiver solutions, is now shipping its high-power 20 watt linear Ka-band BUC ...
Tags: GaN, M&C, Electronics
Professor Martin Kuball of the University of Bristol's School of Physics in the UK is one of 19 people to receive the UK Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK's Department for ...
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Sun Branding Solutions has created new pack designs for kids’ food brand Little Fingers. The concept-to-shelf packaging company was tasked to design packs for Little Fingers’ range of organic baby food. The remit covered ...
Funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Action Based Research programme, following a scoping exercise in 2014, Anthesis LRS is managing and coordinating trials, with cross-sector collaboration from ...
Global consultancy firm Anthesis LRS is leading a project in partnership with Nestlé UK and Ireland and Coca-Cola Enterprises to assess the feasibility of including flexible laminated packaging in household recycling schemes and ...
Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd. (President Katsumi Kitagawa) announced that, effective January 1, 2015, it has merged two wholly-owned subsidiaries Toyo Ink Chemicals Taiwan Co., Ltd. and Toyo Ink Taiwan Co., Ltd. into a single operating ...
Tags: printing inks, SC Holdings, Taiwan Subsidiaries, pigments
CSA Group, a leading global provider of testing and certification services and a standards development organization in Canada, has launched a new testing and certification program for high-visibility safety apparel to the requirements of ...
Greenpeace East Asia released its Detox Catwalk, an online platform report which assesses how effectively fashion brands are removing toxic chemicals from their supply chains and tackling water pollution. Inditex Group, Puma and ...
Tags: Puma, Valentino, fashion brands, toxic chemicals
Ford has announced that the company is using new techniques including eye tracking, to gather emotional and logical customer insights, to learn about how buyers visually discover new cars and trucks. According to Ford, a great-looking ...
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Herndon, Va. – Over the past several years, executives across industries have seen the impact that supply chain disruptions – from natural disasters to port strikes – can cause so it’s not surprising that 35 percent ...
Farnell element14 has announced it is the first major distributor to market Kemet’s new P295 and P278 series impregnated paper EMI suppression capacitors. Impregnated paper is the ideal dielectricThe insulating material between the ...
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BCC Research reveals in its new report on supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference ...
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PANalytical has announced a new detector for X-ray diffraction (XRD) at PITTCON 2015. The new GaliPIX3D will be shown on PANalytical’s flagship X-ray diffractometer, Empyrean - the flexible and future-proof multipurpose laboratory ...
Tags: PANalytical, X-ray diffraction, detector