German automaker Mercedes-Benz has commenced production of its C-Class sedan vehicles at its plant in Tuscaloosa/Alabama, US. The Tuscaloosa facility is third location across the globe that has started production of the C-Class sedans. ...
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SP Richards Company, Genuine Parts Company's Office Products Group, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Impact Products (Impact) at an undisclosed sum. Consummation of the transaction is expected on July 1, 2014, and is ...
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Taiwan-based Yu Yuang Textile Co. Ltd. has received investment license from the provincial People's Committee of Long An (Mekong Delta) for setting up a fabric weaving and dyeing project in the industrial area of Phuc Long in Bên Luke ...
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A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
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Maxwell Technologies, Inc. has added to the company's K2 series of ultracapacitor cells with a 2.85-volt, 3400-faradUnit of capacitance. The basic unit of a measure of a capacitor. A capacitor charged to 1 volt with a charge of 1 coulombA ...
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The European Digital Press Association (EDP) has voted the Screen Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press Best Label Printing Solution in the 2014 EDP Awards that recognise the best in innovative technology in the digital printing market. ...
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Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350°C (about 660°F). Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), their work could improve the ...
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An international team of researchers has been exploring nanomembranes of beta-phase gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) as a channel material for high-voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) [Wan Sik Hwang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Transistor
Spot gas prices on the Dutch and German trading hubs extended Wednesday's gains Thursday morning, in line with the UK NBP where the day-ahead also moved higher from its previous close. At midday London time, the day-ahead contract on the ...
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Sturdy Girl Sports has been issued Patent 8,690,634 B2 for utility by the US Patent and Trademark Office for the proven, unique Sturdy Support System that powers its ultra high impact sports bras. The Sturdy Support System (S3) consists ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Sports Apparel
At the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu, Hawaii (9-13 June), a team at Purdue University, SEMATECH of Albany, NY, USA (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and National Taiwan University (NTU) have been optimizing ammonia-based molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for gallium nitride (GaN) growth on a range of substrates [Erin C. H. Kyle et al, J. Appl. ...
Tags: GaN MBE Veeco, Electrical, Electronics
Product uses AI to allow a car to recognise its position on a track. Development company Wow! Labs, a spin out from Wow! Stuff, has launched the Kickstarter campaign for Real FX Racing. The product uses AI to allow a car to recognise ...
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According to official data, the Mexican government has stopped the export of about 300,000 tons of iron ore (totaling US$30 million) since March from four ships: one containing 68,000 tons, two ships with 100,000 tons each, and a fourth ...
Tags: Iron Ore Ships, iron ore
After what seemed, for many of us, to be an interminable winter it's finally June and that means Mother Nature is getting ready to turn up the burners. But before summer gets too hot to handle and we occupy ourselves with such important ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Capacitor