Double and triple bagging bulk meat containers results in high levels of packaging waste. CHEP Pallecon Solutions’ new liner ensures food safety with a single bag. The bags are produced with multiple, ultra-thin layers within a ...
Tags: bulk meat, ultra-thin layers, Packaging
Disney reports that Anna and Elsa costumes lead dress up sales in Disney Stores across the US. Over three million Disney Frozen Elsa and Anna dress up costumes have been sold at Disney Stores across the US in less than a year since ...
Tags: Frozen Dresses, Toys
The prototype proof card for a vintage Star Wars Luke Skywalker action figure sold for the princely sum on eBay this weekend. A rare Star Wars proof card used as a prototype design for a vintage action figure could just prove that ...
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North Carolina State University (NCSU) has been developing homo-epitaxy of non-polar aluminium nitride (AlN) with a view to deep ultraviolet (DUV, less than 300nm wavelength) optoelectronics [Isaac Bryan et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol116, ...
Tags: aluminium nitride, UV LED
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules integrated into off-grid applications and its EnerPlex series of consumer products, ...
Tags: Ascent Solar, flexible copper
PAC Machinery will be launching a new Clamco Dem 2 combo shrink system that will help in boosting productivity. The equipment has undergone various changes over the preceding models, providing it a high production environment. The Dem 2 ...
Tags: PAC Machinery, System, Printing
Avery Dennison, a Netherlands-based company, has added a new food-approved topcoated product, PP60 top cavitated white film, to its labelling film portfolio. This film comes with S2045N hotmelt adhesive, which will join the company's ...
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India-based Parksons Packaging will be adding two additional Rapida 106 sheetfed offset presses manufactured by Koenig and Bauer (KBA) to their facilities to increase production capacity. Apart from the two current orders, Parksons has ...
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NAIST) has claimed the highest breakdown voltage to date for a diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) [Hitoshi Umezawa et al, IEEE ...
US wholesale energy provider Southern Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, has acquired the 150MW Solar Gen 2 project in California from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of ...
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tna’s next gen metal detector was designed to dramatically increase detection capabilities. Along the way, tna, also developed hyper-detect 5 to operate at unrivalled high speeds of up to 250 bpm, with consistent quality when ...
Tags: Contaminants, 0.8mm, Printing
For the first nine months of 2014 (to end-September), Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported a 10% drop in revenue year-on-year ...
China makers are continuing to slash pricing for camera modules used in smartphones, with pricing expected to drop as much as 15-20% on year during the second half of 2014. Demand for the modules has slowed down in China following ...
Tags: Handset Camera, camera modules, smartphones
Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film photovoltaic panels, has announced the release and certification of its Elevation 4 module line, which delivers up to ...
Tags: Solar Modules, Electronics
Professor Venkat Selvamanickam at the University of Houston has received a $1,499,994 grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative to produce high-efficiency, inexpensive thin-film photovoltaics. The SunShot Initiative ...
Tags: Thin-Film PV, Metal Foil