By the year 2020 the first cylinder housings manufactured from polymer composite materials will be introduced into passenger car and motorcycle engines, replacing the aluminium components currently in use, predicts SBHPP High Performance ...
Tags: motorcycle engine, passenger car, SBHPP, electric vehicles
China's net imports of LPG fell to 729,789 mt in May after rising for four months in a row. The imports fell 23% from 944,603 mt in April, data released Thursday by the General Administration of Customs showed. Net imports of LPG, ...
Tags: LPG Imports, Net butane
Exagan of Grenoble, France, a gallium nitride (GaN) technology start-up that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, has raised €5.7m in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN switching device
The packaging ordered by Iceland features the new British sausage range. Ultimate managed the complete process, from order to print and lamination; delivering the film to Iceland’s sausage supplier for packing in only 10 days, ...
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2015 (ended 3 May), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $320m, up 4.5% on about $306m both a year ago and last quarter. The ...
Tags: Finisar, OpEx, Electronics
The logistics sector seems to have a hard time when it comes to raising prices in their customer base. Furthermore, compared to other industries, it has an extremely low success rate when introducing new products and services. These are ...
The IATA reports that air freight volumes were up 3.3% in April compared to a year ago, which was below the 4.3% expansion seen so far this year. The April result provides a clearer reading of air freight market performance, after holiday ...
It is learned from MIIT that 19000 new energy vehicles were produced in May, up 300% over last year, and 9922 pure electric passenger cars were produced, up 300% and 4923 plug-in hybrid passenger cars were produced, up 400% over last year, ...
Swedish food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has launched a new extrusion line for the production of ice cream sticks and sandwiches. The new line is capable of producing close to 43,200 pieces per hour at lowest operational ...
Tags: food packaging, Tetra Pak, packaging
Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Farming, Agricultural
Driven by technology innovations, silicon-based power electronics will continue their domination of the fastest-growing and largest markets, allowing silicon to maintain an 87% market share, worth $20bn by 2024, and constraining ...
The sales of trucks decreased by 19.8% in April over last year, and the sales of heavy trucks decreased by 33.31% and sales of medium trucks decreased by 32.64% and light trucks decreased by 14.9% and mini trucks decreased by 6.66% over ...
Tags: Light Truck, Transportation
China's new 10-year new-energy vehicle development plan has more objective, practical goals than the one released in 2012, after NEV sales in the first quarter accounted for only 5 percent of this year's original target. The Ministry of ...
In a talk and a tutorial at CLEO 2015 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) in San Jose, CA, USA (10-15 May), a team led by Paul Crump from FBH (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut fur Hoechstfrequenztechnik) of Berlin, Germany ...
Tags: Diode lasers, FBH