Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA - which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications – has announced its Phase Eight ...
Tags: GaN Device, integrated circuits
Greiner Packaging has announced the launch of the new coextrusion barrier foil facility at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria. Co-financed by Greiner Packaging, the coextrusion barrier foil facility has been launched as ...
Treofan's coated BOPP films valdiates its ability to protect food products against the migration of mineral oil residue. This is proven by measurements taken by the Zürich Canton Laboratory (Kantonales Labor Zürich) in ...
Tags: BOPP films, Food Products
Australian government agency Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is calling for submissions on a proposal to consider changing the standards that regulate the issue of chemical migration from packaging into food. Assessing change ...
Tags: chemical migration, ESBO
Semiconductor firm Qualcomm has unveiled a new platform to simplify integration of advanced connectivity technologies into new vehicles. The Qualcomm Connected Car Reference Platform intends to speed up the implementation of of advanced ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Connected Car
RJR Technologies Inc of Oakland, CA, USA, a developer and high-volume manufacturer of air-cavity plastic (ACP) semiconductor packaging for RF and microwave markets, has shipped over 10 million ACP packages, reflecting the increasing use of ...
For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 31 March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA - which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets - has ...
Tags: Emcore, optical chips
Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a group of researchers has synthesized a stack of atomically thin monolayers of two lattice-mismatched semiconductors (Xufan Li et al, 'Two-dimensional GaSe/MoSe2 ...
Canada-based equipment manufacturer Macro Engineering and Technology has completed installation of an advanced cast extrusion lamination line at Raven Industries’ facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US. Capable of processing ...
Tags: cast extrusion, Raven Industries
MARTENS Brewery is leveraging their Direct Print industrial scale digital printing technology from KHS to renovate the look and feel of their own brand, MARTENS Pils, by eliminating labels altogether resulting in a visually appealing, ...
Tags: MARTENS Brewery, Direct Print, KHS, PET Package
A Belgian brewery has announced it will do away with labels for its PET bottles. Martens Brewery, which became known for its digitally printed PET bottles late last year, is again leveraging Direct Print industrial-scale digital printing ...
Tags: Brewery, PET bottles, Labels
WASHINGTON (FERN's Ag Insider) - This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $24 million grant to Cornell University, funding a global wheat research group, known as Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat. The aim is to develop new ...
Tags: Stem-Rust Disease, Wheat
India based global flexible packaging company Uflex, in partnership with foreign technology partner, has developed the Flexfresh equilibrium modified atmospheric packaging (EMAP) which can extend the shelf life of fresh produce. Uflex ...
Tags: Uflex, EMAP, CO2, Packaging, Shelf life, Fresh produce
Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
For fourth-quarter 2015, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $2.45m, more than halving from ...
Tags: Rubicon, Sapphire substrates