Officials from Southern Aluminum Finishing Co. announced the start-up of its batch anodizing line in Redding, Calif., allowing SAF-West to achieve functional parity with the company's East Coat capabilities, according to a Jan. 3 SAF ...
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Organizers of Invest in Photonics 2012, a two-day international convention on photonics venture capital (VC) investment, said that participation at last month’s event increased “despite a tough investment decade in ...
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BOISE, IDAHO (BRAIN) — With an eye toward aggressive trail riding, retailer Alan Klarc is setting up in-house fabrication for a line of steel mountain bikes to be sold through his Boise shop, Velomech, starting this spring or summer. ...
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Aker Solutions is acquiring Separation Specialists Inc, a California-based provider of produced water de-oiling products and field services. “With the acquisition of Separation Specialists, we are able to offer a complete ...
Taiwan's MediaTek announced a new quad-core ARM chip made for mid- to high-end Android devices that the company hopes will keep it competitive as rival chip makers also come out with their own quad-core chipsets. The MediaTek MT6589 chip ...
Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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Canadian developer ADF Group's proposal to annex and re-zone 100 acres north of the town in order to house a 300 employee steel mill has received preliminary approval. A final vote by the City Commission is still pending. The proposal was ...
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Alderon Iron Ore Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nalcor Energy whereby Nalcor will perform Stage III engineering and assessment related to providing transmission and electrical plant and services associated ...
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MyCaseBuilder, a manufacturer of specialty foam inserts for cases is using technology to its advantage with a new website that allows customers to design their own foam inserts. When we first launched MyCaseBuilder in April of 2012, we ...
The construction sector is once again providing work for the regional metal working and steel fabrication industry, thanks to mega projects worth billions of dollars that were announced recently in the UAE. And, an upcoming trade show, ...
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Low carbon mold steels or group P steels are of different types that include P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P20, and P21 steels. Chromium and nickel are the main alloying elements found in group P steels. P20 tool steels are nitrided or ...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have presented the shortest-gate working transistors yet built using III-V channels [J. Lin et al, IEDM, session 32.1]. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors ...
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According to a market research report published by Strategies Unlimited (SU), the high-brightness (HB) LED market, experienced a 93 percent growth rate between 2009 and 2010. In 2009, the global market for packaged HB LEDs was $5.6 billion. ...
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With the purchase of Elpida Memory, the third-largest DRAM maker, Micron Technology not only becomes a Tier 1 supplier, but also catapults itself into the mobile space as a supplier to leading smartphone and tablet makers, including Apple. ...
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Micron Technology announced today that it will acquire struggling Elpida Memory, the third largest producer of DRAM memory, for $750 million and will also take over $1.75 billion in Elpida's debt. Tokyo-based Elpida filed for bankruptcy ...
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