The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Volkswagen Group will collaborate over the next three years to jointly develop innovative solutions for making urban mobility more environmentally-friendly, safer, more reliable and more ...
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Davis-Standard announced that it will unleash a high-speed unwind during the K 2016 plastics and rubber trade fair, which will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany. Engineered for splice speeds up to 800mts per minute (2,600 fpm), the ...
Harrison Packaging, one of Europe’s independent suppliers of printed cartons, has signed a deal to further automate its plant-wide ERP workflow, purchasing an EFI Packaging Suite. The company, which is based in Stockton-on-Tees in ...
Mondelez International has bought the remaining 20% stake in Vietnamese food company Kinh Do’s snack unit for VND 2tn ($90m) as part of its expansion strategy in emerging markets. In November 2014, Mondelez had agreed to buy 80% of ...
University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...
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Manufacturer of metering pumps and metering technology, ProMinent, has added optional Bluetooth control to its new solenoid driven metering pump, the gamma/X. The new gamma/ X is is user-friendly and has a long service life. A solenoid ...
Michelin Group has broken ground on a passenger-tire plant in Central Mexico. It is the company's 69th global facility. Michelin Group's CEO Jean-Dominique Senard said: "Our actions here today demonstrate our confidence in Mexico's ...
The J. M. Smucker Company announced results for the first quarter ended July 31, 2016, of its 2017 fiscal year. All comparisons are to the first quarter of the prior fiscal year, unless otherwise noted. Executive Summary Net sales ...
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UK fish products supplier Icelandic Seachill has confirmed that it will close a deli plant in Grimsby, resulting in 86 job losses. The move was taken after losing a contract with Marks and Spencer. The company plans to stop production ...
The start-up of Kotkamills' rebuilt board machine 2 (BM2) in Finland took place on July 22, 2016. Valmet supplied key technology and automation package for the extensive paper machine grade conversion project. The printing paper (MFC) ...
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John Lewis has announced its Locally Made initiative which will enhance its support of local UK suppliers and manufacturers. The project will see the retailer bring together locally-designed and made products from across the country in a ...
sofa.com will open its biggest showroom to date, in Finnieston, Glasgow on 15th September. With sofa.com showrooms established in Chelsea, Islington, Bankside, Bath, Edinburgh and Amsterdam, the opening of the 7800 sqft store represents ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
The project MIRPHAB (MidInfraRed PHotonics devices fABrication for chemical sensing and spectroscopic applications) has unveiled a chemical sensor capable of detecting drugs and explosives from a distance of 30m. Lasting from the ...
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Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
Tags: GaAsP solar cells, GaAsP, MBE, MOCVD