German manufacturing giant Bosch stated that it will showcase its new machine for producing and packaging granola bars at PACK EXPO 2017 to be held in Las Vegas in September this year. The new system can produce and package granola bars ...
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For fiscal first-quarter 2018 (ended 1 July 2017), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $639.9m, down slightly on ...
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Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) of Sugar Land, near Houston, TX, USA, a manufacturer of broadband fiber-optic access network products (including components, modules and equipment) for the Internet datacenter, CATV broadband, ...
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Pasternack Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes both passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) has launched a new line of E- and W-band PIN diode waveguide switches. The single-pole single-throw (SPST) and double-pole ...
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German automakers including Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler have agreed to upgrade more than 5 million newer diesel vehicles across Europe and to offer rebates for older models. The upgrades are expected to cut down pollution from diesel ...
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Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA claims the first demonstration of 1kV-class aluminium nitride (AlN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Houqiang Fu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 5 July 2017]. AlN has a wide bandgap of 6.2eV. ...
Tags: semiconductor, MOCVD
French automaker PSA Group (Groupe PSA) has completed the acquisition of General Motors' (GM) European brands Opel and Vauxhall. With the acquisition now being officially complete, PSA Group has become the second largest automaker in ...
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H.I.G. Capital has divested its portfolio company Albertville Quality Foods to OK Foods, a subsidiary of Industrias Bachoco. Albertville is among the largest independent further processors of protein based products. The Company focuses on ...
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Arburg, a German manufacturer of plastic processing machines, will demonstrate Arburg Plastic Freeforming (APF) for the automated production of plastic parts for medical applications at Interplas 2017 to be held in Birmingham, UK, from ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that San’an Optoelectronic Co Ltd (China’s largest LED maker) has completed the qualification of its Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) process ...
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Domino has selected Xaar 502 GS15 O printhead technology for 70mm C6000+ variant of its C-Series Plus piezo Drop On Demand outer case coders. The printhead offers original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) with quick and reliable high quality ...
Mattel has enjoyed a spike in net sales in its second quarter 2017 financial results. The firm reported that net sales were up by two per cent as reported and up by three per cent in constant currency, versus the prior year's second ...
Osram of Munich, Germany has made an investment (in the mid double-digit million euros range) to acquire a strategic 25.1% stake in LeddarTech Inc of Québec, Canada, which was founded in 2007 and has developed patented Leddar LiDAR ...
Tags: Osram, LiDAR sensing technology
Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which manufactures large-diameter synthetic sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC applications, has shipped its 150-millionth two-inch equivalent (TIE) product. Since its ...
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German packaging company Gerhard Schubert GmbH will demonstrate its high-performance packaging machines at PackExpo 2017 trade fair to be held in Las Vegas from September 25 to 27. The company will display a new compact flow-wrapping ...