What was until now the biggest pellet plant in Scandinavia, with annual technical capacity of 450,000 t, will be shut down by the end of the year. The executive board of the Norwegian pellet producer BioWood Norway AS, AverØya, made ...
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After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sources. "Renesys confirms a largely complete restoration of the Syrian Internet this ...
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UK security services have begun bridging the gap that has stopped open source software getting security clearance for use in government systems. The initiative has come too late to stop the first big contract wins delivered under the ...
Japanese paraxylene (PX) producer – JX Nippon Oil and Energy has reduced the capacity rates at its PX plant located in Kashima. "Currently both the PX lines are operating at 70 percent capacity, mainly due to poor feedstock supply ...
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After a delay of around 13 days, a naphtha cracker owned by Japan-based JX Nippon Oil & Energy which underwent a turnaround, has restarted. A JX Nippon company official informed fibre2fashion that the cracker which was shutdown for ...
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The LRC has published a new ASSIST recommends publication that is designed to help LED lighting manufacturers develop systems that minimize the effects of flicker. The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems ...
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The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST) recently released a new publication that addresses the issue of LED light source flicker. The publication, ASSIST recommends… Flicker parameters for reducing ...
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The LRC has published a new ASSIST recommends publication that is designed to help LED lighting manufacturers develop systems that minimize the effects of flicker. The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST), ...
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Fifty years ago this week a Delta rocket roared into space carrying a payload that sparked a revolution in the way the world communicates. On board the rocket, launched on July 10, was Telstar, the first telecommunications ...
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The discrepancy between prices for products imported from the euro zone and locally-produced wood, that Swiss sawmills and gluelam manufacturers have been facing since 2011, still exists in 2012 in spite of the price reductions of up to 10% ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy while facing the conundrum of current economy downturn, tries to fortify the nation’s energy security and reduces carbon emissions, the solution that it has came up with is the implementation of ...
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Southern and western softwood lumber producers believe the pace of business activity slowed again on domestic and foreign softwood lumber markets in February. In addition to halted building activity due to weather conditions, demand is ...
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