Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
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At Intersolar Europe 2015 in Munich, Germany (10-12 June), nano-electronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced a thin-film perovskite photovoltaic (PV) module with a solar energy power conversion efficiency of 8% measured ...
China's real estate market, widely scrutinized for its significance to the world's second largest economy, has shown glimmering signs of bottoming out in big cities. The property market remains largely anemic, but a string of indicators ...
Chicken legs from the US have made a comeback in Jordan after the latter scrapped a packaging norm. The rule that restricted the weight of chicken leg packs to 2.5kg, has been relaxed to allow up to 15kg. The Middle Eastern country ...
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Canadean expects global consumption of cider to grow around 5% annually to reach over three billion litres in 2020. Although the UK will remain the world's largest cider market, it will lose considerable consumption share to the US, ...
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Swedish food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has launched a new extrusion line for the production of ice cream sticks and sandwiches. The new line is capable of producing close to 43,200 pieces per hour at lowest operational ...
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Canadian agribusiness Richardson International has acquired Margarine Golden Gate – Michca for an undisclosed amount, in a move to increase food manufacturing capabilities. With this investment, Richardson has secured Golden Gate's ...
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The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand delivered 2.48 (January-May 2014: 2.55; -3.0 percent) million vehicles from January to May this year. 499,500 (May 2014: 531,100; -5.9 percent) vehicles were handed over to customers in May. Commenting ...
MAHLE is opening two new manufacturing plants this week in Ramos Arizpe and Celaya, Mexico, to support automotive customers with assembly operations in the central and northeastern regions of the country. Grand opening ceremonies for a ...
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According to the International Textile Machinery Federation (ITMF), shipments in most of the textile machinery segments experienced declines in 2014. Deliveries of new short-staple spindles in 2014 fell by 15 per cent as against 2014, ...
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The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has sought urgent intervention of the Ministry of Textiles in adequate release of cotton procured by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI). In a letter to textiles ...
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Facing flat growth, Indonesian textile industry may see moreLAID- unless the government takes some swift action to help the industry, a leading Indonesian daily has mentioned. Several textile manufacturers in Bandung regency have ...
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A newly published study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that improving the uniformity of lighting in parking lots can increase the sense of safety and security, as well as provide up to an ...
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A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...
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Over the past 10 years, visible light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been adopted widely in many different applications, as prices have fallen and new technologies have been developed to make full use of them. The infrared LED market is now ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, IR LED, LED market