Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and NorthStar Battery have entered into a 7 year agreement, where the latter will supply Ultra High Performance Pure Lead AGM batteries as part of improvements to the next generation Cascadia truck. ...
Jaguar Land Rover will invest £100m in its Birmingham, Castle Bromwich plant to support the production of its Jaguar XE premium sport sedan. The XE will gradually transfer from its current home at Solihull, demonstrating the ...
China shipped 9.54 million wearable devices in the second quarter of 2016, an increase of 13.2% from the previous quarter and up 81.4% from a year earlier, according to IDC's China Wearable Device Market Quarterly Tracker report. Shipments ...
Steinhoff International has published its unaudited results for 12 months ended 30th June 2016. As indicated previously, the group reports unaudited revenue growth of 33% to €13.1b, while operating profit improved by 32% to ...
Sales slowed in August as the Olympics and outdoor activities diverted shoppers’ attention, reports BRC-KPMG in its latest Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales declined 0.3%, against a 0.1% increase in August 2015. This is ...
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North Yorkshire-based supplier Hill Interiors is celebrating after turning over £1m in August, its strongest performance since it opened in 1975. Marketing manager Paul Nel says: “The last couple of months' success has been ...
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MACOM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has introduced five monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
Grundfos’s earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for the first six months of 2016 increased by 29% on 2015, from DKK637 million to DKK824 million. Half-year 2016 turnover however slipped 2.5% to almost DKK11.6 billion. ...
The Natuzzi brand has been well-known over the years for their expertise in mastering Italian craftsmanship: the ability to shape products with hands, and the manual know-how to transform ideas into reality. Aldo Mati, Natuzzi’s ...
Munich-based Solar Frontier Europe, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that its CIS modules have been selected ...
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Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
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Northrop Grumman Corp of Redondo Beach, CA, USA has received a contract from the US Marine Corps (USMC) for an additional nine AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) low-rate initial production (LRIP) systems. This is the ...
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SAGE SatCom of San Diego, CA, USA (part of telecoms solutions provider REMEC Broadband Wireless), which manufactures power amplifiers for the satellite industry, has added an ultra-compact, efficient, low-power-consumption gallium nitride ...
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In booth #207 at European Microwave Week (EuMW 2016) at ExCel London, UK (4–6 October), MACOM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, ...
Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and Yokneam, Israel (a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for data-center servers and storage systems) has announced support for Cumulus Linux ...
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