Michael Acton Smith is the founder of top licensed toy property Moshi Monsters, but he’s not content with just one brand. In this exclusive interview, he explains to Dominic Sacco about choosing tablets over toys, eclipsing Star Wars ...
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Iron Man Depends On Lincoln Electric Superhero inventor Iron Man is off on his latest adventure – with Lincoln Electric equipment by his side. Released on May 3, the hit Marvel®comics-inspired film -- Iron Man 3 -- features ...
Funded by the US Army Research Office, researchers at North Carolina State University ( at the atomic scale (just one atom thick). The technique can be used to create the thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are ...
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U.S. demand for specialty films is forecast to advance 5.2 percent per year to $8.0 billion in 2017. Gains will be driven by the increasing need for high-performance plastic films which offer barrier properties, mechanical strength, and ...
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Numerous reports industry associations agree that use of smart indicators will increase. There are a number of different indicators with different benefits for food producers, consumers and retailers. Temperature recorders Temperature ...
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US-based specialty films supplier Next Generation Films has ordered a new three-layer blown film line Varex from Windmoeller & Hoelscher. The new Varex has a working width of 134", grooved feed extruders, Optifil P3 gauge control system, ...
The new report from IDTechEx titled "Printed, Organic & Flexible Electronics: Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2013-2023" finds that the total market for these technologies will grow from $16.04 billion in 2013 to $76.79 billion in 2023. ...
Tags: Organic Electronics, CAGR, Electronics
South African coffee roasting company Caturra Coffee has selected Innovia Films' cellulose NatureFlex renewable compostable films to develop new coffee packs in partnership with converter Colpak. Made using three-layers, the coffee pack ...
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Researchers in Korea have used three-dimensional (3D) graphene foam as a transparent conductor for the p-contact of blue nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Byung-Jae Kim et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, p161902, 2013]. The ...
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Sinopec Yizheng Chemical Fibre put the polyester chip project with annual production capacity of 200,000 tons a year into successful use on May 11, marking a new step on building the major business polyester and speeding up product ...
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Researchers based in China and Sweden have proposed fast chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene as a route to more cost-effective transparent conducting layers (TCLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Xu Kun et ...
The axing of Stephen Conroy's other pet project, the controversial mandatory internet filtering scheme, will save the government more than $4 million. According to Budget 2013 papers, the government will achieve savings of $4.5m over ...
Global chemical company BASF has announced the addition of two new variants, ecovio T2308 and ecovio IS1335 to its range of the compostable and partially bio-based plastic ecovio. The ecovio T2308, which is currently available for the ...
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Xeikon will exhibit its digital color printing systems, basysPrint computer-to-plate (CtP) UV platesetters and ThermoflexX digital platemaking systems for the flexographic market at the Printtek 2013 International Fair in Istanbul (Turkey) ...
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What is Retro Furniture? The term 'retro' is being thrown about quite casually nowadays but there are actually very few people who know what it actually means. To go retro means to go into the past and see how people back then thought the ...
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