Tesla Motors is set to accelerate production of electric sedans at its assembly plant in Fremont, California, with an investment of $100m. The expansion involves addition of 25 new robots and overhauling the body and general assembly ...
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For first-quarter 2014, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed ...
Based on a scenario where electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles (EV/HEV) begin adopting gallium nitride (GaN) in 2018-2019, the ramp-up of the GaN power device market will be quite impressive starting in 2016, at an estimated ...
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Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari has unveiled the new one-off custom F12 TRS car at the third edition of the Ferrari Cavalcade in Sicily. The new F12 TRS is based on the F12berlinetta and was developed at a client's request as ...
The US posted a second consecutive year of record oil production growth in 2013 with its surging shale industry balancing out supply disruptions to underpin an unprecedented period of stable global oil prices, BP said Monday. US output ...
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Scarcity of feedstock acetic acid is making it difficult for European ethyl acetate producers to ramp up production and take advantage of spot prices at a three-year high, sources said Tuesday. Spot etac is trading at around ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter (ended 27 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its seventh consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $306m (up ...
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Novelis, a subsidiary of India-based Aditya Birla Group, has cast the first production-sized ingot at its €200m aluminum recycling and casting center in Nachterstedt, Germany. According to the company, the first production-sized ...
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Each time a user completes a mission in the Ultra Agents app, they receive alternative building instructions to help transform their existing sets into something new. LEGO has unveiled its new Ultra Agents product range and tie-in app ...
The USB 3.1 standard has significantly raised the transmission speed to 10Gbps, up from the 5Gbps for USB 3.0, but the technology will still struggle to replace HDMI and Thunderbolt for Ultra HD image transmissions, according to Digitimes ...
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Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched the AWL5910 power amplifier (PA), optimized for WiFi infrastructure and multimedia applications including access points, routers, ...
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Ethylene flow rates on the Evangeline Pipeline are likely to improve in the coming week, trade sources said Wednesday. Flows on the pipeline, which moves ethylene from Texas into Louisiana, restarted May 8, sources said, after it had been ...
Mistral Energy has started shipping purity ethane to Canada from the US on its Vantage Pipeline and expects to increase levels to 60,000 b/d over the next two years, a company spokesman said Thursday. The average volume in the "initial ...
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Brazil's Vale produced 1.785 million mt of coal during the first quarter, up 1.9% on the year to a record Q1 volume due to the ramp up of the Moatize mine in Mozambique, the diversified miner said in a production report published late ...
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The price of platinum is forecast to average $1,457/oz in 2014, 2% down from the 2013 average of $1,487/oz, as strike action has failed to give the metal any meaningful lift so far, metals consultancy GFMS said Friday in a report. "The ...
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