The New York City has barred food service establishments, stores and manufacturers from possessing, selling or using single service Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam articles or polystyrene loose fill packaging. The ban that has been ...
Tags: cups, plates, trays, Agriculture
With the implementation of the Developing Country (DC) Preferences by the Australian Government from 1 January 2015, garments made in Fiji now have improved access to the Australian market. The DC Preferences replaces the earlier South ...
Tags: raw materials, textile, clothing, footwear industry, Apparel
Researchers in Germany have developed gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon carbide (SiC) layers on silicon wafers [Wael Jatal et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 December 2014]. ...
Tags: Cubic Silicon Carbide, Electrical
More Chinese are applying for a United States visa, pushing up the number of outbound tours to the US. Last month, China and the US agreed to extend the validity of short-term tourist and business visas issued to each other's citizens ...
Tags: Visa Policy, Visitors
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has expanded its family of 802.11ac 5GHz WiFi power amplifiers (which includes the AWL5905 launched in May 2013 and the AWL5910 launched in May ...
Quiksilver, Inc. has completed the sale of its majority ownership interest in Surfdome, an online retailer of action sports products, to SurfStitch Group, an Australian based online retailer of action sports products. Quiksilver received ...
Tags: Quiksilver, Surfdome Sales
The firm has released it German catalogue, featuring new lines across LEGO City, Friends, The LEGO Movie, Star wars and more. LEGO has revealed a first look at its new sets for the start of 2015, including new Minifigures, LEGO Elves, ...
Tags: Minifigures, LEGO Elves, LEGO Avengers, Toys
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a $54 million plan submitted by Delaware for clean water projects, including efforts that will improve local water quality by eliminating failing septic systems, and reduce greenhouse ...
Tags: septic systems, water quality, Agriculture
Clever, the leading electric mobility operator in Denmark and ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today announced that CLEVER will expand its charging network in Denmark and neighboring countries with 100 ABB ...
Tags: Fast Charging Stations, Auto
Northwestern University’s Center for Quantum Devices in USA has developed a monolithic room-temperature terahertz (THz) source based on quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) [Q. Y. Lu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, p201102, 2014]. The ...
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 CMD218, a 5-9GHz low-noise amplifier ...
Tags: GaN products, low-noise amplifier
Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) says that it has significantly expanded its portfolio of connectorized RF amplifiers including high-power amplifiers, ...
Tags: RF amplifiers, Pasternack
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices, says that EDN (Electronic Design News) has named its C2M0025120D 1200V, 25mΩ SiC MOSFET as one of the ‘Hot 100 ...
Tags: silicon carbide, gallium nitride, Electrical
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has signed an agreement for Japanese company Daito Electron Co Ltd ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Daito Electron, Electrical
As distribution centre operators look ahead to stay competitive in 2015 and beyond, Honeywell has announced versatile hands-free wearable technology engineered to drive efficiency, productivity and accuracy inside the four walls of the ...