Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
Numbers reported by the DAT North American Freight Index were up for lthe final month of 2013. Compared to November, the spot market freight availability rose 10 percent in December. According to TransCore, the company that produces the ...
Tags: Trucking, Transportation
German automaker Daimler is set invest EUR190m in its Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, Spain, for the production of medium-size vans. The production is expected to start in 2014. The company will primarily use the amount in the ...
Tags: invest, assembly units
Two hundred thirty-six. That is how many truck occupants died in highway crashes during 2012 who were not wearing a safety belt, according to the federal government. The real number is even higher, when factoring in the 182 occupant ...
Tags: Transportation, driving safety
BBC TV's Fake Britain programme - highlighting the illegal and unsafe mattresses on sale through major high street retailers - has catapulted the National Bed Federation's (NBF) new Code of Practice and Mark of Approval into the limelight. ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps of a chemical reaction. This was done at the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) at Radboud ...
Tags: Plastic Cell, Consumer Electronics
Fila has signed an endorsement agreement with top ranked American tennis player Sam Querrey. The multi-year agreement with Querrey continues the legacy of Fila's sponsorship of elite tennis champions. Querrey joins a roster of ATP World ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Tennis
WARREN, Mich. — Art Van Furniture is donating 700 twin memory foam mattress sets to Habitat for Humanity - one for every Simmons Beautyrest A.C.E. mattress set the retailer sold in its stores last month. The Top 100 company, with ...
Tags: Art Van Furniture, donation, Habitat for Humanity, Simmons
Former Natuzzi executive Jan Mantens has been named director of the Brussels Furniture Fair, according to European trade publication Furniture News. Mantens is replacing Els Van Pelt, who is retiring after 15 years with the fair. After ...
Tags: Natuzzi, Jan Mantens, Brussels Furniture Fair, appointment, director
HealthCare.gov famously failed at launch, not delivering what was promised. Depending on whom you ask - and whom you believe - the cost to taxpayers ranges from $654 million to well over $1 billion. If, as Professor Van Helsing said in Bram ...
Tags: Fleet Software, Transportation
A hybrid-electric delivery truck leaving a FedEx distribution center in Charlotte, N.C. The “hydrogen economy” just got a nice push from the Obama administration, which is now partnering with the private sector to facilitate a ...
Tags: hydrogen economy, fuel cells, transportation sector, fuel vehicles
"The 2013 commercial vehicle market rose 14.7%, making it the best performance in the last five years," said Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive. "Boosted by a strong second half to the year, the truck market rose to pass 56,000 units, while ...
Tags: Van Market, Truck Market, UK Truck Market
Given North America's recent record-breaking cold with its thousands of cancelled airline flights, ice and aviation are very much in the news-especially the ice that cakes up on wings and tails, requiring trips to de-icing stations on the ...
Tags: Aircraft Icing, Alpha Particles
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, today announced the introduction of their new InstantFit LED T8 that reduces the cost for facility managers replacing fluorescent tube lighting with energy efficient LED technology, known as LED ...
Tags: LED T8 Tubes, LED Lighting, Philips