The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
The new films use ovenable inks that produce high-definition, high-quality print using the full range of process colours. They are used for ready-meal lidding, flow- wrapping, cooking pouches and roasting bags for higher temperatures. ...
The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry is set for rapid growth over the next five years, with up to 100GW annual deployment being targeted in 2018, according to Solarbuzz. This end-market growth is projected to increase annual PV module ...
Tags: power supply, PV Solarbuzz, PV industry
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, is launching the evolution of its FFLC Series medium power film capacitors for DC filtering applications. Available in large case sizes up to 35 ...
The Canadian Competition Bureau has approved Mexican firm Grupo Bimbo’s proposed acquisition of Canada Bread. In February, the Mexican firm agreed to acquire Canada Bread for C$1.83bn ($1.66bn). Canada Bread is the bakery products ...
Truck manufacturers Paccar and Daimler are recalling thousands of trucks equipped with Cummins Westport Model ISL G and ISLX12 G engines because of a potential issue with the intake manifold pressure sensor. Earlier this month, engine ...
Tags: Natural Gas Engines, Trucks
Surya Brasil is introducing four new products to its Sapien Women line, which uses packaging made from Braskem's green plastic. Braskem created the "I'm green seal", which guarantees the renewable origin of the packaging, and will help ...
Concrete is ubiquitous in our world today. According to the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), concrete is second only to water as the most-consumed material on earth, and twice as much concrete is used in construction worldwide than ...
A study led by the University of Leeds has shown that global warming of only 2°C will be detrimental to crops in temperate and tropical regions, with reduced yields from the 2030s onwards. Professor Andy Challinor, from the School of ...
Tags: Crop, Agriculture, Food
STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveilled a family of high-voltage silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFET products, enabling power supply designers to drive up energy efficiency in applications such as solar inverters and electric ...
Tags: Sic Power Mosfets, STMicroelectronics, high-voltage silicon carbide
Textile- Apparel Sector Value Chain has over 10 Crore people already associated with it and in the past 3 Quarters alone over 1 lakh jobs- were added in the sector despite the slowdown of manufacturing sector and employment market. ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel, employment market
To coincide with changes to the Privacy Act that commenced recently, Transport Certification Australia (TCA) has emphasised the need to uphold strict privacy safeguards in order to progress the wider use of telematics and C-ITS ...
Researchers in France have developed a technique to directly grow graphene on aluminium nitride (AlN) crystalline templates on silicon substrates [A. Michon et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, p071912, 2014]. Up to now, attempts to use ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Soraa’s third generation (Gen3) GaN on GaN™ LED achieves world-record setting wall-plug-efficiency, outperforming the nearest competitor by 20% at normal operating conditions. In just one year, Soraa has achieved a remarkable ...
Tags: wall-plug-efficiency, color and whiteness rendering, innovation
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a method for modifying organic molecules that significantly expands the possibilities for developing new pharmaceuticals and improving old ones. "This is a technology that ...