Henkel Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Henkel KGaA of Germany, today announced the acquisition of Magna-Tech Manufacturing, headquartered in Muncie, Indiana. Magna-Tech Manufacturing is the North American market leader in vacuum ...
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The announced merger between petrochemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont will have a significant impact on the low-density polyethylene market and could be just the beginning of large-scale consolidations, an industry consultant said ...
Tags: Dow Chemical, DuPont, polyethylene, LDPE
University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, and University of Crete have been exploring the potential of Frster resonant energy transfer (FRET) from an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) single quantum well (SQW) to a light-emitting ...
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UK-based RPC Group will acquire French closures and dispensing systems manufacturer GCS Group for €650m in a bid to bolster its position in European plastic packaging market. RPC proposes to fund the acquisition by combining ...
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Petainer Innopac Packaging has opened a new plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra which will produce plastic packaging solutions. The new plant employs Petainer's advanced polymer engineering technology to provide high performance ...
Hybrid optoelectronic devices based on blends of hard and soft semiconductors can combine the properties of the two material types, opening the possibility for devices with novel functionality and properties, such as cheap and scalable ...
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Austrian plastic packaging firm Alpla Holding is to expand its market position in Africa by acquiring a production site in Egypt from Argo. The acquisition is scheduled to take place at the end of this year whose financial terms are not ...
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Polyethylene shipments from Singapore to India are expected to pick up in the long term following a free trade agreement taking effect December 1, sources said Friday. But sources in both markets do not expect this to have much impact ...
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Recently a US startup company named MOLT launched a crowdsourcing project for its latest product on Kickstarter. The product is called Mstick, a user- friendly LED light bar that suits everyone’s daily use, according to the campaign ...
Some polymer traders in China are re-exporting their spot imported LDPE and LLDPE cargoes in a bid to clear inventory in the face of weak domestic demand, sources said Wednesday. This is an unusual practice because China usually absorbs ...
British Polythene Industries has indicated in the Interim Statement that volumes were slightly ahead of the previous year, and that we were seeing polymer price reductions. These reductions coincided with lower demand from certain ...
Recently, quantum dots (QDs)—nano-sized semiconductor particles that produce bright, sharp, color light—have moved from the research lab into commercial products like high-end TVs, e-readers, laptops, and even some LED lighting. ...
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Researchers from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan have created highly flexible, efficient white LEDs with potential use in wearable displays and non-flat surfaces, such as curved and flexible television screens. While the design ...
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LEDs are up to 80 percent more energy-efficient than normal light bulbs and last around five times as long as energy-saving light bulbs. As a result they are being used more and more frequently as a source of light. Nevertheless, white LEDs ...
Tags: LEDs, Protein-based LEDs, FAU
Solvay Specialty Polymers, a world leader in the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance materials designed to master the most challenging requirements in the semiconductor industry, will showcase at Semicon Taiwan 2015 ...
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