The Consumer Electronics Association and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. today announced a technical “CRT Challenge” to identify financially viable, environmentally-conscious proposals for using recycled cathode ...
Tags: Electronics Industry, Old CRT Glass, Consumer Electronics
IDG News Service - An electronics and a recycling trade group are looking for ways to reuse recycled cathode ray tube (CRT) glass from computer monitors and television sets, with a US$10,000 prize for the best proposal. The Consumer ...
Tags: CRT Glass, Trade Groups, Decoration
In booth 2405 at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA is ...
Tags: Optical Fiber, Fiber Optic Engineers, optic communications component
Automakers began using laminated safety glass, also known as auto glass, for automobile windshields in 1927. To make laminated safety glass, the manufacturer sandwiches a thin layer of flexible clear plastic film called polyvinyl butyral ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
October 8, 2012 - Solvay Specialty Polymers USA LLC has extended its line of high-performance polyester compounds with a new version targeting light-emitting diode (LED) TVs with higher heat and light stability. Seeking to reduce product ...
Tags: LED TV components, LED, LED electronic
Samsung will acquire 3% of Sharp for 10.4 billion yen (HK$856.8 million) to secure liquid crystal displays for smartphones and televisions. It is emphasising OLED technology that offers sharper, brighter images while consuming less power. ...
Tags: Samsung, Sharp, OLED technology
As electronic technology has moved towards miniaturization, new manufacturing technologies have needed to be developed. Smaller components cannot always be connected or soldered by older conventional methods, such as flow soldering. At the ...
Tags: electronic technology, miniaturization, manufacturing technologies
Beijing plant will supply panel makers on the China mainland Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today hosted a grand opening ceremony for a new liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate manufacturing facility in the People's Republic of ...
Tags: LCD Glass
FibeRio, the developer and manufacturer of ground breaking Forcespinning® nanofiber production systems today announced it has completed a $13M capital raise led by two global strategic investors - SABIC Ventures B.V., Saudi Basic ...
Switchable Projection Window TM is a newly invented product to the market and represents the latest technology in home theater design. It can virtually turn any window into TV screen while remaining a full function of a normal window. ...
Tags: Switchable Projection Window TM, home theater design, TV screen
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3-D ...
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Tosoh Corporation is pleased to announce its consolidated results for the first nine months of its 2013 fiscal year. The company’s consolidated net sales for the period ended December 31, 2012, amounted to ¥474.4 billion (US$5.9 ...
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Epistar Corp. is the largest manufacturer of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in Taiwan. The company was established in 1996, and its headquarters are in the Northern Taiwanese city of Hsinchu, In 2009 it had an annual turnover of NT$10 ...
Four companies recently received Innovation Awards from the Institute of Physics (IOP) following each company’s successful development and commercialisation of a novel technology which has had significant impact in a range of markets. ...
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SONY has reported its eight straight quarter in the red but says it remains on track to achieve its forecast of a full-year profit. But the results, released after reports that Sony will this month announce the late 2013 launch of its ...