MEI Wet Processing Systems and Services (a subsidiary of MEI LLC) of Albany, OR, USA has launched the FluidJet batch wet processing system for metal lift-off in MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) and compound semiconductor manufacturing, ...
Tags: metal lift-off system, semiconductor, metal
South Korea's spot supply of solvent-grade mixed xylenes for April loading will fall by up to half of its typical volume because of lower yields from naphtha-fed steam crackers' use of butane in its feedstock mix, a market source said ...
Tags: solvent-grade mixed xylenes, butane, LPG
This year, many areas of Ohio experienced extremely low temperatures for several days. (-20° as I was driving to an Extension meeting in Coshocton County on January 28.) Snowfall was also above average in many areas causing standing ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Wheat
Low protein intake may be a key factor in longevity, according to two groups of researchers who published studies in the journal Cell Metabolism on 4 March 2014. The first study, from researchers at the University of Southern California, ...
Tags: Low protein intake, High protein, healthy balanced diet
Wheat yields pushing 150 bu/ac are very possible with good management and increased nitrogen (N) rates. Recent research clearly shows an interaction between fungicides and nitrogen. But high nitrogen rates immediately raises questions ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Wheat
For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
Tags: Self-Sufficiency Policy, farmers
Munich-based WACKER Group has adopted the motto "Discover Tomorrow's Solutions" for this year's Middle East Coatings Show (MECS), in Dubai from March 10 to 12. The company is unveiling a new dispersible polymer powder for cost-efficient, ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
Scientists who study past pandemics, such as the 14th century Black Death that devastated much of Europe, might soon be turning to an innovative biological detection technology for some extra help. The apparent first use of this ...
Tags: Ancient Human Remains, Microbial Detection, Array Detects Plague
Taiwan Glass Industrial raised $100 million on Monday from a five-year convertible bond, even as European stocks fell 2% amid fears of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine in Crimea. Investors pushed a hard bargain given the uncertain ...
Tags: Modern Commercial Buildings, Glass
The success of coconut water, which surged from zero in 2006 to an almost US$1 billion business in North America and Europe by 2013, is just the first step in a massive trend, according to global nutrition business analysts New Nutrition ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Despite skepticism in the chip industry that Moore’s Law could be reaching its limits, MIT Researchers believe that they have found a way to enable semiconductor manufacturers to continue shrinking geometries below 20 nanometer and ...
Tags: Moore's Law, MIT Research
TSMC Solar Ltd of Taichung, Taiwan, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), has agreed for specialty PV distributor Centrosolar ...
Tags: Solar Modules, Electrical
Japanese steelmaker JFE Steel Corporation has announced that it has developed the world's first API X80-grade high-frequency-welded (HFW) steel pipe with thickness of 25.4mm. JFE Steel also announced that it has received the first two ...
Tags: Welded Steel Pipe, Mineral
Iceland-based food processing solutions provider Marel has unveiled FleXicut, a new whitefish processing line for bone detection and removal. Unlike the traditional process, the automated equipment has been developed to eliminate the need ...
As we have seen in recent months, energy storage is becoming a pretty big deal. California has the country's first energy storage mandate in place, and plants like Solana in Arizona have started trying to incorporate storage in from the ...
Tags: Salt, Storage, energy storage