German machinery maker Brückner Group has opened a new headquarters in China that will roughly double its production capacity there, as the firm said it expects continued solid demand in the market. The 65, 000 square foot factory, in ...
The Swiss pellet manufacturer Pellet du Jura commissioned new pellet manufacturing machinery in early April 2012. The project involved a fundamental overhaul of a pellet plant that the subsidiary of the Swiss hardwood sawmill Corbat Holding ...
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New figures show that Poland maintained its position as Europe’s leader of parquet floor production in 2011. The European Federation of the Parquet Industry (FEP) said Poland's production share of the FEP area was 17.6%, followed by ...
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Lighting maker Neo-Neon, which has been eager to shift businesses from traditional lighting fixtures to LED ones, expects its 2012 LED lighting shipments to grow 4-5 times, according to company general manager Cheng Chien-wen. Nevertheless, ...
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Strange things can enter municipal wastewater processing plants. While the bulk of the volume is water, the main challenge is what is carried along with it. As the influent enters the plant, the first line of defense is coarse screens that ...
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China's Ministry of Science and Technology is seeking public opinions on the recently revised goals set for the semiconductor lighting technology development under the 12th Five-Year Plan. Compared with the solid state lighting policies ...
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LED lighting will become the main LED application in 2014, according to David Su, chairman of Taiwan-based LED firm Lextar. Su indicated in a speech given during Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2012 that penetration of ...
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Prices for sapphire ingots have stopped falling recently in light of the rising sapphire substrate prices, according to sapphire ingot supplier USI Optronics. Prices of 2-inch sapphire substrates have increased to US$8.5-9 on average ...
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The Canadian timber concern Canfor started a total investment in May 2012 of roughly Can$40m in the modernisation of the Radium and Canal Flats sawmills in British Columbia. Most of the investment sum will go to the Radium sawmill which was ...
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Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi (SCAD) issued today its monthly report on the prices of building materials for the month of May 2012, which presents an analysis of the movements in the prices of the various materials used in the construction ...
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KraussMaffei Berstorff is now offering even more efficient wear resistance for all parallel and conical twin-screw extruders with the plasma powder arc welding process (PTA) for coating the top-root edges of counter-rotating twin screws. ...
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Water jet manufacturer Jet Edge, Inc. introduces the ECO-JET Waterjet Pump. The 55KSI 30hp ECO-JET features an efficient direct drive pump design that consumes up to 40% less electricity than a 50hp pump, but produces the same output. The ...
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Timber windows and doors manufacturer Allan Brothers is winning new business in a very competitive and difficult timber window market after enjoying a “turn around” in 2011 when the Berwick-upon-Tweed company celebrated its ...
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For suppliers of products and services for the air, water, and energy industries there are some substantial double-digit growth opportunities. Ten of these have been identified as the most promising by the McIlvaine Company These are ranked ...
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The Apex Tool Group GmbH & Co. OHG gained a major order in the eight-figure range for tightening technology in three plants of the BMW Group. Regensburg, Leipzig and Oxford rely on the well-known products of the industrial tool manufacturer ...
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