Colorful, see-through solar cells invented at the University of Michigan could one day be used to make stained-glass windows, decorations and even shades that turn the sun's energy into electricity. The cells, believed to be the first ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Electronics
In January this year producer prices in French industry decreased by 0.6 percent month on month, following a month-on-month rise of 0.1 percent recorded in December, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of ...
Canadian transportation firm TransForce Inc.said its income dropped in the fourth quarter,which it said was mostly due to bad weather. Net income was C$12.3 million,or 13 cents a share in the quarter,down from C$36.1 million,or 37 cents a ...
Tags: TransForce, Transportation, transport
Industrial packaging firm Mauser Group has introduced new plastic drum series manufactured at its recycling center in Erkelenz, Germany. The new Infinity Series of plastic drums, designed to transport hazardous goods, has been produced ...
Tags: Plastic Drum, Mauser, Packaging
Orders for durable goods declined in January, the Commerce Department reported. Orders for products meant to last more than three years fell 1%, which followed a 5.3% decline in December. The smaller decline from January to December ...
Tags: durable goods, Transportation, Transport
Rosneft estimates that crude production from its East Siberian and Russian Far Eastern projects will amount to 55 million mt/year, or 1.1 million b/d, by 2025, a spokesman at Rosneft said Friday. To achieve this, the company plans to ...
Tags: Rosneft, Crude Output
About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
Russian ultra low sulfur diesel exports may struggle to find a home in the UK in the winter after the country's oil importers agreed earlier this month to enact a new test to assess the fuel's filter-blocking tendency, traders said Friday. ...
Canadian transportation firm TransForce Inc. said its income dropped in the fourth quarter, which was mostly attributed due to bad weather, and Contrans Group reported its earnings increased in 2014. Net income was C$12.3 million, or 13 ...
Tags: Transportation
Hong Kong is pondering whether to rip out some seats from overcrowded metro trains to give the city's smartphone-addicted population more room to interact with their devices. The transport and housing bureau has suggested that the MTR ...
Tags: removal of some seats, more personal space, The train carriages
Landec Corporation, a materials science company that develops and markets innovative and patented products for healthy living applications in food and biomedical markets, is expanding commercial applications for its patented BreatheWay ...
The manager of producer services with Sask Pork says it's up to each individual pork producer to ensure the biosecurity protocols are in place that will protect their farms from the introduction of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea. Porcine ...
Tags: Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea, PED virus into barn, transmitting disease
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has received an order from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. to supply the control system for an LNG carrier that is being built for the Ichthys LNG project* in Australia. The ship will be the ...
Kings Consolidated Group has announced the acquisition of New South Wales-based haulage business, Walker’s Haulage. Walker’s has annualised revenues of around $25m and the business specialises in the transportation of heavy ...
Tags: transportation of heavy freight, prime movers, strategic opportunities
A new report released by NRMA Motoring & Services has shown Australia’s reliance on imported transport fuel has risen from 60 per cent in 2000 to 91 per cent in 2013, putting immense pressure on Australia’s liquid fuel security ...
Tags: imported transport fuel, medicine supplies, electric vehicles