General Motors has announced plans to invest $240m at its Warren Transmission Plant in Michigan in the US to build electric drive unit for the second-generation Chevrolet Volt. The Volt powertrain components and battery cells are expected ...
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Ford has a new way to help police agencies save lives, prevent injuries and potentially help save millions of taxpayer dollars. As agents of law and order, police officers monitor driving behavior to ensure the safety of the motoring ...
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Keysight Technologies Inc of Santa Rosa, CA, USA (spun off as a subsidiary of Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies Inc in August), which provides electronic measurement instruments and systems and related software, software design tools ...
A process for producing the sweetener erythritol from sapodilla, a tropical tree, has been developed by students at the Technological Institute of Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico. Some natural low calorie sweeteners, including erythritol (a ...
Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Gigastorage will begin to set up a PV module factory in Thailand to mainly meet local demand in the second quarter of 2015, according to company chairman Jimmy Chen. The factory's annual ...
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Sales of BASF Group grew by 3% compared with the previous third quarter, reaching €18.3 billion. A sharp rise in volumes in the Natural Gas Trading business sector was mainly responsible for this growth. Income from operations (EBIT) ...
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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 ...
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Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute, in conjunction with partner Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, has issued VDE Quality Tested (QT) Certification to cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
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PRP Technology Ltd, a holding company of PRP Optoelectronics Ltd of Towcester, UK (a privately owned firm designing and manufacturing LED-based products), has announced a long-term strategic investment partnership with Veruth Holdings Ltd ...
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Freescale Semiconductor today introduced a comprehensive hardware/software development system for enabling automotive grade Ethernet connectivity for next generation infotainment, instrument cluster, camera telematics and rear seat ...
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Powertree Services will build build 68 electric vehicle charging stations in San Francisco, US and has selected Panasonic provide engineering, construction and procurement services. The stations are designed to be powered by solar energy ...
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TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) has extended business operation to EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) services for setting up PV systems and has set up PV systems with total installation capacity of 23.4MWp in Taiwan, ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, presented its first “Axalta Mexico Science Award” at the State of Mexico’s Science and Engineering Fair sponsored by the Science and ...
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Fairway Injection Molding Systems will invest $1m annually for the next three years to purchase production mold manufacturing machinery and injection molding machines The company is going ahead with this investment to meet the growing ...
In the electronics industry and across the supply chain, counterfeit components are a hot topic as organizations struggle to make sure the components they are using as they manufacture electronic devices are the real deal. The problem of ...