National Oilwell Varco announced that its Board of Directors has authorized Company management to move forward with exploration of a plan to spin-off NOV?s distribution business from the remainder of the Company, creating two stand-alone, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil, Processing Machinery
Modern power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) enable power electronic switches to operate at much higher switching frequencies compared with those based on silicon (Si). Advantages include increased power density per volume and ...
Tags: Fraunhofer ISE, Electrical, Electronics
A top energy watchdog forecast the U.S. will bypass Russia in the production of liquid fuels--everything from crude and gasoline to biofuels like ethanol--solidifying America's growing importance in global energy markets. The ...
Tags: Liquid Fuels
By 2050, there will be two billion vehicles in the world - 1.2 billion more than today - doubling energy demand from 2000 levels, and most of them will still be powered by conventional liquid fuels. Meanwhile, every single litre of diesel ...
Tags: Energy, Transportation
August 27, 2013 - GE and XD Electric Group (a Chinese manufacturer of high-voltage equipment) have formed a global partnership combining GE's grid automation capabilities and global energy presence with XD Electric's portfolio of ...
Pump Solutions Group (PSG), an operating company within Dover Corporation and a global leader of pumps, systems and related technologies, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Finder S.p.A., headquartered in ...
Tags: Pump, Industrial Equipment, Components
State's support for new environmental initiatives promotes emerging sectors China's investment in renewable energy will bring vast opportunities and challenges for the country's overall development, a senior official said at a recent ...
Tags: renewable energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the boom of LED lighting, IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer, will also expand the sales range of LED lighting product to support the promotion of efficient lighting products. Steve Howard, the Chief Sustainability Officer of ...
Power generation and transmission firm Alstom and Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, ...
Tags: CPV Power Plants, Alstom, Soitec
Transcending the boundaries of global fashion, Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013 presents International top model Anastasia Kuznetsova in India for the first time! Six years old in the fashion industry, this Russian beauty ...
Tags: International Model, Apparel
Marl International, a pioneer of the LED lighting revolution that is now sweeping the world, this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. The company has now supplied more than 500 million LEDs, many in assemblies designed and manufactured by ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
McLaren Applied Technologies, part of the same group as the McLaren Formula 1 team, has partnered with data centre provider IO to develop more energy efficient data centres. Data centres are currently thought to consume around two per ...
Tags: McLaren, IO, Computer Products
US natural gas prices will remain stable in the $3-$4/MMBtu range for the rest of the year, three-quarters of the global energy executives surveyed by consulting firm KPMG said in a poll released Friday. "Greater assurance of supply ...
Tags: Energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, natural gas
As a result of renewed focus and restructuring over the past few years, BP now will direct as much as 75-80% of its capital expenditures to upstream projects over the next decade, BP's chief executive of upstream said Monday. The world ...