Nissan has announced to produce a 3-cylinder, 1-liter engine at the company’s powertrain plant, at Resende Industrial Complex in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. Nissan is investing R$100m ($37m) for the development of the new engine ...
Tags: 3-cylinder, 1-liter engine, Auto
Subaru has introduced 2015 XV Crosstrek Special Edition crossover utility vehicle, with only 1,000 models to be sold starting this spring. According to Subaru, the new XV Crosstrek Special Edition is one of the most fuel-efficient ...
Tags: 2015 XV Crosstrek Special Edition, cylinder block, Auto
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which makes silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, has introduced a new MOSFET design kit that includes all of the components needed to evaluate Cree MOSFET and Schottky diode performance in a configurable ...
Tags: configurable half-bridge circuit, MOSFET design, Electrical
Cardolite introduced a comprehensive line of cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL) based polyols for adhesives, coatings, foam and elastomer applications. Polyols derived from CNSL have unique qualities compared to widely known polyester and ...
The fledgling wearables market will be thrust into the mainstream by the upcoming arrival of the Apple Watch, T-Mobile CEO John Legere has predicted. Despite a number of high profile devices having already hit the market – including ...
Often considered a throw-in, an afterthought, underlayment for new hard surface glue-down, nail-down and floating floors in residential and commercial installations is anything but. Underlayment that is well matched to the floor covering ...
Tags: Premium Underlayment, floors
China’s Xidian University has been developing III-nitride double heterostructures (DHs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels with a view to high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Yi Zhao et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, ...
Tags: HEMTs, InGaN channels
Ugg announced the grand opening of its two newest retail stores in Canada: Robson Street in Vancouver and West Edmonton in Alberta. The locations are the eighth and ninth Ugg stores in Canada, respectively. "Consumers in Canada, as ...
Tags: UGG, Sporting Goods
Clemens Food Group is planning to invest $255.7m in the construction of a new pork processing facility in Coldwater Township in Michigan. The proposed investment is expected to create 810 jobs in the region. Commenting on the ...
Tags: bacon, ham, pork chops, Agriculture
Who else loves the look of brand new butcher block countertops? The natural wood gives a rich, cozy feel to a kitchen. But I've always wondered how these beauties hold up over time. Among folks who actually installed butcher block counters ...
Netherland-based packaging company Budelpack Poortvliet has acquired a new Bosch machine for the vertical forming, filling and sealing of transwraps as well as stand-up, block bottom and quadro-sealed pouches. The company already has a ...
These days, "the Christmas retail rush" is a Christmas wish more than a certainty for retailers. You've probably already noticed that it's tough out there. Sure, consumers are more receptive to the idea of spending in December. But where? ...
Tags: Christmas retail, soft drink, Packaging
The greenhouse gas that is twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide, methane, may become the feedstock for a material that helps reduce our dependency on plastic in its current form. Methane, as you know, is generated by the natural ...
Tags: methane, carbon dioxide, Packaging
Erath Winery, one of the pioneering wineries of Oregon's Willamette Valley and the region's leading producer of Pinot Noir, has released the first wine from their new estate vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills, Willakia Vineyard. The 2013 ...
Tags: First Wine, Agriculture
This 9.75-carat fancy vivid blue diamond, named the “Zoe Diamond” by the private buyer from Hong Kong who purchased it, set a record for any blue diamond at auction when it sold for $32.6 million at Sotheby’s last week. ...
Tags: blue diamond, Arts