Japan's direct-burning crude oil demand for power generation has picked up since late December as a cold spell across the country has increased appetite for loadings into March in the absence of nuclear output, industry and trading sources ...
Tags: crude oil demand, power generation
Saturday, February 01, 2014: “Alessi in Love”, the meta project born on the initiative of LAURA POLINORO - LPWK DESIGN STUDIO in collaboration , the web platform for participatory design, is coming to an end with the selection ...
Tags: Alessi in Love, Crusinallo, H-Farm, workshop
Having grown into the world’s factory through an abundance of cheap labor, China is now rushing to introduce industrial robots in response to rising wages and a worker shortage created by its one-child policy. The casting industry ...
There were several in the past few months alone – Covidien acquired Given Imaging for $860 million (this is Covidien’s fourth Israeli company acquisition in a little over 18 months); Baxter acquired FlowSense for $9.5 million; ...
Tags: medical technology, medical device
Australia said it had made "substantial" progress on UNESCO benchmarks for protection of the Great Barrier Reef Sunday in a report aimed at staving off a world heritage downgrade. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said a progress report ...
Tags: Reef Protection, Electronics
PV demand has been boosting since 4Q13, and EnergyTrend predicts that global PV system installation may reach 42GW in 2014. Although the U.S. court has started the anti-dumping and countervailing investigation towards Taiwanese PV cell ...
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(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers at Tohoku University in Japan, led by Masahiro Hotta, has proposed a new way to teleport energy that allows for doing so over long distances. In their paper published in Physical Review A, the team ...
Tags: teleport energy, Star Trek, LED, Hotta
Philips’ lighting division achieved total sales of €8,442 million in 2013, with LEDs accounting for 34 per cent of overall lighting sales in the final quarter. Releasing its Q4 results, the Dutch manufacturing giant revealed ...
Tags: Philips, LED, Lighting division, Lumileds and Automotive
As India tries to power its emerging economy, it will look beyond coal to offshore wind energy. And, it will be getting some help from the European Union, which will be coming up with a roadmap and help with financing. The plan, which ...
Tags: Global Wind Energy Council, Offshore Wind Power Development, electricity
The Nike Tight of the Moment is an exercise in exploration. Through experimentation with unique patterns, colors and inspirations, the franchise has elevated the intersection of athletic performance and artistic design. This penchant for ...
Structural reforms and the start of infrastructure projects from the federal government will bring a boost in demand for steel in Mexico, said Verónica Orendain, manager of Heavy and High-Tech Industries of the Mexican Ministry of ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Mineral
January 29, 2014 How might Lion's next moves affect the Australian dairy industry Food and beverage company Lion has announced that it does not currently intend to sell its shareholding in Victorian dairy company Warrnambool Cheese and ...
Tags: WCB, Lion, Japan K.K, Warrnambool Cheese
HONG KONG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department (CSD) released the external merchandise trade statistics Monday, according to which the value of total exports of goods rose by 3.6 percent in 2013 over 2012, and ...
Tags: CSD, U.S.Federal Reserve, exports
Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), Russia's largest coal producing corporation, has announced that it produced 96.5 million mt of coal in 2013, up one percent year on year. In 2013, SUEK's sales volume rose by one percent year on year ...
Covidien has announced that its Japanese subsidiary, Covidien Japan, received Shonin approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for its Endo GIA reinforced reload with Tri-Staple technology. This approval extends ...
Tags: Covidien, Tri-Staple technology, Endo GIA