Brazil’s long products market should face a challenging year in 2015, despite a low increase in production, domestic sales and as well as in the country’s apparent consumption, an executive at Gerdau said during the Alacero ...
Tags: Long Steel Production, Domestic
INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information, analytics and driver services for the connected car and smart cities worldwide, today announced that it is expanding its partnership with Volkswagen to launch INRIX Park and INRIX ...
Taiwanese machine-tool makers Fair Friend Enterprise Group, Goodway Machine Corp., and Hiwin Technologies Corp. have decided to acquire Japanese machine-tool makers in a move widely seen as an attempt to convert the threat of the weak yen ...
Tags: Triggers, Machine Tool
Pressure washers are amazingly handy tools. They work by forcing water at extremely high pressure across the surface that you need to deep clean, a technique that's eco-friendly, fast, and suitable for many outdoor maintenance jobs. It ...
Tags: Pressure Washers, handy tools
The dispersions segment is continuing to be one of the most active in the European coatings sector in the development of new technologies as well as investing in mergers and acquisitions and expansions in production capacity. Demand for ...
Tags: Dispersions, coatings sector
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
David Atkinson’s lighting scheme for the Sky Gallery at The O2 blends LEDs with traditional technologies to stunning effect. Jill Entwistle asks the 2011 Lighting Designer of the Year how he realised the project There ...
In 2016 a new way of producing parts will be readily available. HP has developed the Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer that will enable mass production of parts with accuracy, finer details and smoother surfaces. It will also be able to ...
Tags: HP 3D Printing, Jet Fusion
Neo Solar Power’s (NSP) N-type bifacial monocrystalline cell, recognized for its high efficiency, was launched at the PV Taiwan 2014 exhibition in Taipei last week. Taiwan is a key player in the manufacturing of high-efficiency solar ...
Tags: mono cell, solar energy
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NAIST) has claimed the highest breakdown voltage to date for a diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) [Hitoshi Umezawa et al, IEEE ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced its SC5 Technology Platform, targeted at powering the next generation of lighting with the introduction of the firm’s new Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs. The new class of LEDs can reduce ...
Tags: Cree LED, High Power LEDs
The diamond and jewelry market, like the global economy, is sending mixed messages ahead of the holiday shopping season. The prevalent claim that the economy is showing its strongest prospects since the 2008 crash is being disputed by ...
Tags: diamond, jewelry market
Professor Venkat Selvamanickam at the University of Houston has received a $1,499,994 grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative to produce high-efficiency, inexpensive thin-film photovoltaics. The SunShot Initiative ...
Tags: Thin-Film PV, Metal Foil
Electrical test instrument and system provider Keithley Instruments Inc of Cleveland, OH, USA has introduced new enhancements to its parametric curve tracer (PTC) configurations that incorporate high-power SourceMeter source measure unit ...
Tags: Metal Foil, test instrument
Freescale Semiconductor today introduced a comprehensive hardware/software development system for enabling automotive grade Ethernet connectivity for next generation infotainment, instrument cluster, camera telematics and rear seat ...
Tags: Freescale, Vehicles, Accessories