While industrial performance has stabilised, industry's share in Europe's GDP has declined from 15.5% of GDP one year ago to 15.1% in summer 2013. The two industrial Competitiveness reports published today by the European Commission ...
Tags: Service, industry economy
In an interview with Computing following his presentation at the Data Centre Summit 2013 today (picture), Robert Bath, VP of engineering at major data centre wholesaler Digital Realty explained that that changes in data centres - ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Chuka Umunna MP spent around two hours at Duo UK as he gained first-hand experience of how British manufacturers are coping in the current economic conditions as well exploring how the rising cost of living is affecting employees. Other ...
In view of the perspective of semiconductor lighting application, people are unanimously optimistic about the development of LED industry in middle and long term, the penetration of LED in lighting market will continue to rise, it is likely ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED, LED Bulbs
European industrial pump purchases will grow moderately in the next two years and surpass $9 billion in 2015. This is the conclusion reached by McIlvaine in Pumps World Markets. Centrifugal pump purchases will exceed the combined total of ...
Tags: pump, industrial pump, Centrifugal pump
Solar Systems Pty Ltd of Melbourne, Australia, has achieved 'practical completion' of Australia's largest concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant. Forty CPV 'Dense Array' dish systems are now fully commissioned and feeding clean ...
Tags: Silex CPV, solar, Electrical, Electronics
Partners Khaled Juffali Company (KJC), a Saudi Arabian investment company, and concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, say that the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), a global petroleum and ...
Tags: Soitec CPV, Solar, Electrical, Electronics
As a response to the (solid-state lighting) SSL Manufacturing R&D funding opportunity announcement made in December, the US. Department of Energy (DOE) has competitively selected five projects for SSL to receive the fourth round of funding. ...
Tags: lighting, LED lighting
The Romanian cement market declined 0.2 percent in 2012 owing to bad weather and an unfavorable economic context, and this year seems no better as yet. Any growth by yearend will be small, and could only come from infrastructure investments ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Talk about fireplaces and I'm reminded of that evocative number from the movie 'My Fair Lady' - "All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air, With one enormous chair. Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of ...
Tags: Gas Fireplace, Electric Fireplace
Europe has set itself ambitious climate and energy targets: A third of the continent's electricity needs are to be met from renewable energy sources by 2020. Offshore wind power places a pivotal role in the mix. In their new study entitled ...
Tags: wind power, Global Investment
Researchers have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic (PV) system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide ...
Tags: Swiss Funding, IBM, Electronics
Lighting designers at Paul Nulty have won the 2013 Lighting Design Award for their innovative work on Superdry's flagship store on Regent Street in London. The retail outlet has been lit to a slightly brighter level than other competing ...
Tags: Lighting, LED scheme, LED
The exports of garments and textiles from Vietnam have reached US$ 4.2 billion during the first quarter of the current year, registering a year-on-year rise of 16 percent, according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS). ...
The cotton growers of Australia are likely to produce 4.15 million bales of 217 kg each by the end of this fiscal year, which ends on June 30, 2013. According to Cotton Australia, a leading body for Australia’s cotton industry, ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Industry, Cotton Market