Stranded on the barren red planet Mars with few supplies available, astronaut Mark Watney played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in The Martian is fighting for survival against harsh natural elements. To sustain himself, Damon’s ...
Tags: NASA, LED grow lights, space
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have announced that Australia's first commercial ...
Tags: PV Modules, Solar Plant
Polyaspartic coatings have long protected industrial applications such as bridges and water and wastewater infrastructure. Increasingly, commercial building professionals and architects are discovering that under that protective skin is a ...
Tags: Polyaspartic coatings, solvents, Adhesives
BASF is presenting numerous new solutions for the packaging and furniture industry, automotive and electrical engineering at this year’s Fakuma, the international trade fair for plastics processing, in Friedrichshafen. From October ...
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The printing industry is changing tracks: These days, more and more specialist firms are switching from the traditional analog approach to digital printing procedures, preferring in particular the use of inkjet printers that increasingly ...
An extensive new addition to the Nordson Corporation website focuses exclusively on the company’s polymer processing range of melt stream components for compounders, processors, converters, and recyclers. The site is designed for ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global manufacturer of liquid and powder coatings, introduces three new cleaning products for commercial vehicle surfaces and equipment: 3800S Surface Cleaner, 3821S Low VOC Surface Cleaner and 3850S ...
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Rich Products Corporation announced that they have developed a line of Peanuts and Snoopy branded desserts that will bring a familiar feeling of friendship to birthday parties and everyday celebrations across the country. Staying true to ...
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Butler Automatic, the inventor and global leader of automatic splicing solutions, announces that its SP1 Series Automatic Film Splicer is ideally suited towards food and beverage packaging applications. The SP1Automatic Film ...
Protective packaging specialist Storopack has introduced a new foam padding system FOAMplus Bagpacker2 for the protection of sensitive goods of any size during shipping. The new FOAMplus Bagpacker2 is an improved version of FOAMplus ...
Amcor and Bosch Packaging Technology have partnered to develop ZipSpeed, an optimal material that has been designed to run on Bosch's new SVE 2520DZ vertical Doy Zip bag machine. ZipSpeed has been developed to match the performance of ...
Tags: Amcor, Bosch Packaging, Doy Zip Bagger
For high temperature applications, Wipak has developed a plastic composite which offers ideal product protection. New: WALOX is a transparent alternative to compo-sites based on polyester, laminated with aluminium oxide (AlOx) or silicon ...
Tags: plastic composite, film, glass packages
Flexible packaging and filling systems provider Rapak of North America has launched Strivo, the twist lock bag-in-box connecting system for dispensing liquid foods. The simple connect, twist and firm lock functionality of the new ...
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British flexible films manufacturer Skymark is investing in a new Nordmecanica Super Simplex solvent-less laminator to increase capacity at its facility in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, the UK. When installed in November this year, the new ...
Tags: Skymark, flexible films, medical packaging, blown film
In booth #702 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) in Valencia, Spain (28-30 September), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of high-speed semiconductor and optical communications components for ...
Tags: GigOptix, optical modules, modulator, transceivers