US based Ball Corporation has revealed plans to build a two-line beverage can manufacturing plant in Monterrey, Mexico. The new project will create more than 200 jobs, with the company saying it is its first such venture in Mexico. ...
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Packaging company Ardagh is almost said to have completed its €3bn acquisition of the glass packaging unit of Saint Gobain. Saint Gobain has been considering the sale of Verallia to focus on higher-margin home and construction ...
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Researchers based in Japan claim the highest output power and external quantum efficiency (EQE) so far for deep ultraviolet (DUV) sub-270nm-wavelength light-emitting diodes (LEDs) during DC operation [Shin-ichiro Inoue et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, DUV devices
Dow Coating Materials has introduced PARALOID Edge Isocyanate-Free1 Technology, which extends pot life while maintaining quick cure. The ambient crosslinking technology was unveiled this week at the 2015 European Coatings Show in Nuremberg, ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK's University of Cambridge has ordered its Propel Power gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics, LEDs
To seamlessly light indoor commercial spaces, Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today two new brilliantly designed enclosed basket fixtures from Columbia Lighting – the Transition® Enclosed TRE ...
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Power management company Eaton today announced that it has helped improve the lighting performance and energy efficiency in a campus recreation facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. By replacing almost 400 lighting ...
Tags: LED Solutions, LED luminaires
At the CSTPF Show, which begins from April 14-16, 2015 in Shanghai, Kornit Digital will show two high-productivity printing systems: the 6 colour plus white Avalanche Hexa and the Kornit Storm II. In a press release, Kornit said it will ...
Tags: Kornit Digital, CSTPF Show, high-productivity printing systems
The LED industry is now fully embracing the fast-growing lighting market as (based on revenues) LED lighting has become the largest sector among LED applications, surpassing LCD backlighting in 2014, and is expected to be the major driver ...
Tags: LEDs MOCVD, LED Chip
With the handset set to be formally unveiled alongside the Huawei P8 next Wednesday, April 15, the images have popped up to point towards a Huawei Ascend P7 echoing finish.Despite showing off a metal-framed form similar to that of the P7, ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used indium tin oxide (ITO) as part of the cladding for semi-polar indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) [A. Pourhashemi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111105, 2015]. The ...
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Marlborough, MA–based medical device company seeks to lead Endoscopic Ultrasound business with Xlumena purchase. Boston Scientific is spending an initial $62.5 million to acquire San Diego–based Xlumena and its Endoscopic ...
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DyStar, a marketer of textile dyes and chemicals will be showcasing its innovations at China International Dye Industry, Pigments and Textile Chemicals Exhibition (China Interdye) held in Shanghai from April 15-17, 2015. According to a ...
The government of Ethiopia has ushered in a manufacturing boom that is set to make the country a major regional player across several lines of products. According to government sources, the textile sector is among the industries poised to ...
Tags: domestic market, Growth and Transformation Plan, Textile
Energized by growing demand for power supplies, hybrid and electric vehicles, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and other established applications, the emerging global market for silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductors will grow ...
Tags: GaN SiC Power electronics, power supplies, Electronics