A new 20-page brochure from Orion Engineered Carbons discusses coloristic properties of carbon black pigments in full tone and tinting applications. In addition to describing the Carbon Black manufacturing process, it covers the basics of ...
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The dispersions segment is continuing to be one of the most active in the European coatings sector in the development of new technologies as well as investing in mergers and acquisitions and expansions in production capacity. Demand for ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 (to 3 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $718.2m, up 22% on $587m last quarter and 51% on $477m a year ...
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Baltimore--Niche magazine has named the finalists for its 2015 awards for excellence in fine craft, which includes various categories for jewelry design. Judging is based on three main criteria: technical excellence in both surface ...
TYLT, a leader in portable power and wireless charging, today revealed two new accessories: the VU Wireless Charging Car Mount, a hands-free car mount that doubles as a wireless charger, and the VU SOLO, a compact single-coil wireless ...
Tags: VU Wireless Charging, hands-free car, Auto
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
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For third-quarter 2014, RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported record revenue of $272.1m, up 18% on $230.8m last quarter and up 8% on $250.8m a year ago. This ...
Long gone are the days of cheap, plastic looking vinyl flooring. Thanks to advancements in technology over the last decade, manufacturers are now able to capture greater detail and produce luxury vinyl tile (LVT) with stunning realism. ...
The varnishing lacquer ware of Pingyao County is listed in the first national non-material cultural heritage list. Many visitors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries are likely to buy Pingyao lacquer wares when they visit the old city ...
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When Into Lighting started to design a lighting scheme for the French fashion house Jitrois on London’s Sloane Street, it knew it had to come up with a model that was as elegant, individual and impeccably executed as the clothes it ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the surface-mountable Displix Oval, which is claimed to be the first LED with oval light-radiating characteristics for large-screen video walls, gas station price signs and ...
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Da Shuhua is a 300-year-old tradition practiced during the lantern festival in Nuanquan town, Hebei province. It has been selected as the provincial cultural intangible heritage. Performers throw over 1,000 degree molten iron onto the cold ...
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North Carolina State University (NCSU) has been developing homo-epitaxy of non-polar aluminium nitride (AlN) with a view to deep ultraviolet (DUV, less than 300nm wavelength) optoelectronics [Isaac Bryan et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol116, ...
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Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that it has completed the upgrade of its continuous wide-strip hot rolling mill 2000 at Liptesk with a capacity of 5.7 million mt of rolled steel per year. The project included an upgrade of the ...
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NAIST) has claimed the highest breakdown voltage to date for a diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) [Hitoshi Umezawa et al, IEEE ...