In order to better help its customers align environmental and societal aspects with business success, BASF has developed a new process for steering its portfolio based on sustainability criteria. The Sustainable Solution Steering method is ...
Novatec Solar and BASF have successfully commissioned a solar thermal demonstration plant based on a new type of molten salt technology, known as direct molten salt or DMS technology. The plant is located on the site of the solar-thermal ...
Tags: Novatec Solar, BASF, molten salt, DMS technology
Magnetic components and assembly designer and manufacturer Precision Inc of Minneapolis, MN, USA has launched its gallium nitride (GaN)-ready magnetic capabilities. GaN-ready LLC transformers and PFC inductors are now available for ...
Intematix Corporation, a leading manufacturer of phosphor solutions for LED lighting, has collaborated with SABIC's Innovative Plastics business to create the ChromaLit Linear - a state of the art LED offering developed for the lighting ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED, LED energy source
Net loss climbed nearly 27% from a year earlier at Hancock Fabrics, Inc., a retailer of fabrics, sewing materials, etc, in its second fiscal quarter ended July 26, 2014. Hancock reported a net loss of $3.3 million, or negative $0.16 per ...
Tags: Textile, Fabric, Hancock Fabric
Amid daily updates from the pharmaceuticals industry on the latest clinical trials, last week's announcement by Hutchison China MediTech that it had enrolled patients for a study of colorectal cancer was hardly cause for excitement. But ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Chinese Pharma
Initial reaction to the Apple Watch (not, disappointingly, the iWatch) falls into two camps: those who have only seen photos, who think it looks ugly and big, and those who have actually worn it, who realise it's surprisingly light, and not ...
Tags: Watch, Apple Watch
It is learned that China auto parts sales were increased a lot in the first half year. And the sales revenues were 140.9 billion Yuan for the 20 surveyed list auto parts makers in the first half year, up 9.2% over last year and their net ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Weichai Power
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been exploring the potential of using 'van der Waals epitaxy' (vdWE) to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon [Yazeed Alaskar et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., published online 26 August 2014]. The team ...
Sports Direct International plc , the UK's leading sports retailer, reported Group sales for the 13 weeks ended July 27 were up 12.2 percent to ?11.2 million ($1.21 bn) compared with ?34.0 millon a year earlier. Gross profit increased 11.8 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Quiksilver, Inc. reported revenues fell 19.0 percent in its third quarter ended July 31, to $395.7 million. On a currency-neutral basis, sales were down 17 percent for the Quiksilver brand, 9 percent at Roxy, and 34 percent at DC Shoes. The ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
LEGO and Barbie take the top spots on boys' and girls' lists of the most favoured toy licences this year. Barbie and LEGO have been named the most popular toy licences among British children, according to results of a new survey by LIMA. ...
Italian tilemaker Trend has been shortlisted in the Residential Product category of this year's SBID International Design Awards for its hand-crafted glass mosaic design. The Trend Metropolitan Collection features distinct glass mosaic ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, mosaic, glass mosaic
Peter Gabriele, Vice President, Research and Development and Jeremy Harris, Ph.D., Technical Director, will present "Anatomy of a Next-Generation Bioresorbable Coating for Medical Devices" during a live webinar on Tuesday, September 23 at ...
Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works (EMZ), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that in the January-August period of the current year its output of rolled steel products ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, mining and steel, crude steel