President Obama on Wednesday nominated REI's chief executive, Sally Jewell, to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Jewell, who has been at REI for eight years, also has experience in the banking and oil industries. The nomination must ...
When Norfolk vegetable processor Pinguin Foods set itself an aim to increase throughput by a fifth, it looked to Ishida to upgrade its ageing checkweighing set-up. Philip Chadwick finds out more about the installation Who Pinguin Foods ...
Tags: Veg Firm, Production Boost, Packaging
Fibre network giant, Optocore has made a significant change to its distribution arrangements in Italy, appointing Prase Engineering S.p.A to handle the installation/contractor sector. Following the direct contact between the two companies ...
Tags: Fibre network giant, Optocore, distribution arrangements
When church officials at Sts. Anne & Joachim Catholic Church in Fargo, ND, added a sanctuary as part of the final phase of a multiphase building plan, they requested an HVAC system that churchgoers would not see, hear, or feel. The building ...
Tags: Church, Praises, Concealed Ductwork
February 6, 2013 - EBMag was there as the second annual Electric Vehicle & Infrastructure Summit gathered in Toronto, Ont., this week to discuss the next steps in encouraging consumer adoption, promoting sustainable electric vehicle (EV) ...
Mercedes-Benz has had its second top-ranked engineer leave its AMG performance arm for a rival German brand within a month. UK publication Autocar reports AMG’s key chassis engineer, Arnd Meyer, has jumped ship from Mercedes-Benz to ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Second AMG Engineer, rival German brand
Audio-Technica has expanded its role as sponsor of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a non-profit state-of-the-art mobile recording and multimedia studio. For several years, A-T has served as the Bus's microphone sponsor, and they now ...
Tags: Audio-Technica, Lennon Bus, Sponsorship
UK - Nexo hosted the first public listening sessions for its new STM modular line array, choosing the LH2 Studios in London as a venue for the international production community. Despite terrible January weather causing London airports to ...
Tags: sound engineers, sound, Nexo
USA - The historic 920-seat Edwards Hall Auditorium on University of Rhode Island's Kingston Campus recently upgraded its sound system with a selection of products from Bose Professional Systems Division. The system was spec'd and installed ...
Tags: sound system, subwoofers, power amplifiers
February 4, 2013 - Toronto Hydro has awarded Carmanah Technologies contracts worth about $1,100,000 to engineer and construct three rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) generating facilities, located on York Mills, McGregor and Mimico Arenas in ...
Power distribution and transmission executives are faced with a range of new technologies at the moment that need to be integrated and understood, says Michael Ropp, President and Principal Engineer, Northern Plains Power Technologies. ...
Tags: Power distribution, Power transmission, Modeling tools
U.S tech companies lead all other industries in patent production, and Silicon Valley has the highest patent-producing population, says a new study. Moreover, the rate of patenting by U.S. inventors "is at its highest point since the ...
Tags: Industrial Revolution, Computer Products, U.S.Inventiveness
WASHINGTON -- Ten U.S. senators this week agreed to sponsor a bill that would allow the annual H-1B visa cap to rise to as high as 300,000, leaving opponents and some researchers concerned. Under the proposal, the cap would begin at ...
Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
Tags: Computer-on-Modules, processors, data-intensive applications
Lagos based sound and lighting company Solution Media and Infotech has invested in its second Midas PRO live audio mixing console in less than a year from local Midas Distributor, NMK Electronics. The investment was made in order to deliver ...