After being showcased at the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC, USA (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) has launched the EpiEra high-quality ...
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The LED lighting module market (including flexible LED strips) reached nearly $4bn in 2016 and is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.6% during 2017-2022 to $13.8bn, boosted by the emergence of innovative functions and the ...
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Chocolate and confectionery giant Ferrero’s Canada unit will be financially supported by the Ontario government in its C$90m ($72.31m) expansion project that is aimed at boosting productivity of an existing plant. The provincial ...
Natpak enterprise, a products producer for different flexible packaging sectors, has purchased and installed a new Comexi F2 MB flexo press at its facility in Zimbabwe. The new press will complement the Natpak’s existing Comexi FW ...
Tags: Flexo Press, flexible packaging
German luxury automaker BMW will be investing EUR400m to expand its its FIZ research and innovation centre in Munich. The “FIZ Future” masterplan, which was developed as part of an urban development competition, will expand ...
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The automotive lighting market is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.7%, from $25.7bn in 2016 to nearly $27.7bn in 2017 and $35.9bn in 2022, estimates market research firm Yole Développement in its report ...
Tags: Automotive LED lighting, LED
Bosch Packaging Technology has launched AFG 5000, a latest addition to its AFG series of filling and closing machines. The company will be showcasing the AFG 5000 in Crailsheim from September 18 through 29, 2017. The AFG 5000 filling ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA - which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications - has announced the availability of two ...
Tags: EPC, Wireless Power Demonstration
US-based poultry producer Simmons Prepared Foods has announced an investment of $300m to build a new chicken operation facility in Benton County, Arkansas. Operations at the new chicken processing plant, located between Decatur and ...
State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...
Tags: Power Electronics Chips, Suny Poly
BTHA's Rebecca Deeming gives us the lowdown on the latest issues facing the toy industry. It’s been a busy last month for the BTHA having held our second BTHA Training Hub seminar for members, taking on the topic of Tackling Modern ...
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Delphi Automotive has signed a commercial partnership agreement with BlackBerry to provide operating system for its autonomous driving system. Delphi and BlackBerry QNX will collaborate to bolster software performance and safety in their ...
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German luxury automaker Daimler, through its brand Mercedes Benz is investing $1bn in Alabama, US plant to produce electric vehicles. The company plans to produce EQ-branded SUV models at MBUSI (Mercedes-Benz U.S. International), its ...
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At the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp unveiled a silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
Tags: Power Device, Mitsubishi, SiC Mosfet
Universal Robots, a Danish manufacturer of smaller flexible industrial collaborative robot arms, said it will showcase its new scalable packaging solutions at this month’s PACK EXPO 2017 in Las Vegas to address the rapid-changing ...
Tags: Packaging, PACK EXPO 2017