EPFL’s Institute of Microengineering(IMT) has achieved a 10.7% efficiency single-junction microcrystalline silicon solar cell, surpassing the previous world record of 10.1% held by the Japanese company Kaneka Corporation since 1998, ...
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The Abu Dhabi Financial Center/Sowwah Square is located in the Abu Dhabi Central Business District, a 570,000 square metre development comprising of four luxury high-rise towers incorporating office spaces, a retail area and the new Abu ...
Pleotint has announced a distribution agreement with Prelco in Reviere-du-Loup, Que., enabling Prelco to incorporate Pleotint’s Suntuitive interlayer technology into its proprietary Prel-Shade thermochromic window offering. ...
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The NPD Group, Inc., a global information company, has successfully passed the external audit for ISO/IEC 27001 certification. The firm was assessed and approved by the certification company QAS international. The ISO/IEC 27001 is the ...
Flowers Foods, a US-based producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods, has appointed Allen L Shiver as chief executive officer and president, effective 22 May 2013. Shiver has worked for over 33 years with Flowers Foods and currently ...
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Lextar Electronics applied with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs for 174 patents of which 125 ones were invention patents (the other two types of patents are utility and design) in 2012, ...
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UK - Hawthorn celebrated their 25th Anniversary by welcoming over 500 clients, guests and staff to its Leicester Head Office, 16 February 2013. Hawthorn applied its own event expertise to transform their facility into a swanky party ...
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According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in December last year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-27) decreased ...
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Omnova Solutions has launched Pliotec SA60 colloidal dispersion, which is fortified with a water-based epoxy to form a 2K coating system. This system can be used on interior vertical walls in institutional locations such as schools, ...
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Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac by as much as 17 percent, and has also stopped selling multi-licence packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new ...
Houseplants are beautiful and effective decorating accents or focal points. My mother, a highly skilled interior decorator, did not have big groupings of small plants to make an impact. She said that look was busy and cluttered. Instead, ...
Renault-Nissan alliance has opened the Nissan Research Center Silicon Valley (NRC-SV) in California, US to develop the self driving and connected cars. The center is a part of the Nissan's plan to expand and localize its research and ...
USA Triathlon has added four new members to its 12-member board of directors, the organization announced Monday. "These four talented individuals possess a magnitude of experience in the worlds of business, governance and multi-sport, and ...
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This is one of the sadder stories we’ve covered in this space. Earlier this year, a man shot three people in an office park in Phoenix, Arizona. One victim, Steven Singer, president and CEO of call center company Fusion Contact ...
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Harold Fitch, the man charged with overseeing Michigan's 15,000 oil and gas wells, told a House subcommittee Friday that growing hydraulic fracturing operations in his state have not caused any groundwater contamination or any other serious ...
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