Direct laser engraving of flexographic plates and cylinders Direct laser engraving of flexographic printing cylinders and plates has been an established process since the 1970s. This first began with the use of a carbon dioxide laser used ...
The Loro Piana Challenge Cup yesterday celebrated in Hong Kong the finest Merino wool bale produced in 2012, in a competition between Australia and New Zealand. After 14 Australian wins, affirming the leadership of the Australian wool ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and Interoute, the owner and operator of Europe's ...
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The North African country of Egypt would benefit from the reduction in cotton import tariff announced by Brazil’s Foreign Trade Board (Camex) last week. As per the announcement, duty on import of cotton, classified in product ...
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Odegon technologies, a technical fabric innovator, has launched odour eliminating clothing tags ‘DeoTag’ to absorb under arm smells. The DeoTags absorb under arm smells via a special military-grade nano-porous fibre sewn into ...
The TEQUATIC PLUS F-50 fine particle filter from Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), is a winner of the Infinite Possibility for Market Growth Award by the Awards for Composites ...
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A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world's fastest for home use. So-net Entertainment began offering its "Nuro" fiber-based service on Monday to homes, apartments, and small businesses ...
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John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
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The acquisition expected to support fibre optics product range for enterprise and data centre applications Chip maker Avago Technologies has agreed to acquire the optical technologies provider, the CyOptics for about $400m. The ...
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The document, titled ‘Shaping our sustainable future’, reported that all Mondi-branded papers produced at their uncoated fine paper mills fulfilled the Green Range criteria, eight new land claims were settled in South Africa and ...
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Not much time has passed since the government of the Western Indian state of Gujarat unveiled its new textile policy in September 2012, but the state government is already mulling on making amendments in the same to make it even better. ...
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Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console is going to use AMD processors. Bloomberg reports that sources close to the "Xbox 720" games system say it will use an AMD computer chip instead of the IBM Power PC, as Microsoft looks to reduce ...
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Australians are falling further in love with faster internet, with more users downloading more data than ever before. Figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show record downloads in the last three months of 2012, with ...
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To help its power-generation customers meet particulate emissions with greater filtration efficiency, GE has introduced a new bi-component felt media for construction of fabric filters used in coal-fired boiler baghouses. GE says that the ...
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As the Woolmark brand rapidly approaches its 50th year, a survey conducted by USA graphic design journal GDUSA has voted the Woolmark logo as the 11th favourite logo from the past half century. Created in 1964 by Italian designer ...
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