IAR Systems has announced a starter kit for developing smart meters, weighing scales and other applications needing precision measurement. The kit is centred around a TMPM061FWFG microcontroller which has an analogue front-end (AFE), ...
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Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that the construction of the China Guangfa Bank (CGB) building in Wuhan city has used over 10,000 mt of high-strength HRB 400 rebar produced by ...
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Lexington, N.C.-based textile finishing machinery manufacturer Navis TubeTex reports that Arsan Tekstil, Turkey, has installed a Pak Nit II e3 compactor to improve the quality and production of its tubular-knit fabric range. According to ...
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NanoH2O has been awarded a retrofit of a large desalination plant in the Canary Islands, Spain. NanoH2O’s QuantumFlux high rejection membranes have been chosen for a 6,500m3 per day train on Fuerteventura Island. The high ...
Astronauts on the International Space Station began unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday, a day after the commercially delivered capsule was attached to the station. Tom Marshburn, a space station astronaut and flight ...
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Thanks to the higher speeds possible using a technology called vectoring, copper networks are still a viable option to cable and fiber, Deutsche Telekom says. Rolling out fiber-to-the-home to all households in Germany will take too long ...
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Following several months of construction work, SCHOTT is now ready to start firing up its new melting tank for manufacturing high-quality special-purpose. The technology group invested approx. six million euros in the tank equipped with ...
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UK natural gas for same-day delivery rose to 108 pence/therm Monday morning -- a price the market has not closed above since 2006 -- due to unplanned North Sea outages. Stormy weather caused a failure in the Norwegian power grid system ...
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Japanese auto maker Toyota has unveiled the new i-ROAD at the Geneva Motor Show that is being held in Switzerland during 05-17 March 2013. The vehicle is powered by two 2kW motors mounted in the front wheels that use a lithium-ion battery ...
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Sony has sold the main office "Sony CityOsaki" in Tokyo by the 111.1 billion yen (about 1.2 billion dollars). The office building is 25 stories high, was completed in 2011 in March, covering an area of 124,000 square meters, containing ...
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For priming the cooling system of wind power plants (wind turbines), REpower Systems SE decided to use Impeller Pumps manufactured by Zuwa-Zumpe GmbH. REpower Systems SE, a subsidiary of Suzlon Group, is one of the leading international ...
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On Feb. 27th, 2013, Chairman Liu Xiaowei of Wanli Building Materials Company answered firmly that the project ignited and new product will be on in early March. The project was located in Shilin Industrial Zone covering an area of 50 Mu. ...
The Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona closed its doors on Thursday, with a sudden rain shower sending the last attendees scurrying off to their hotels. It's been a gargantuan affair that saw pretty much everyone who is anything ...
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The largest LED manufacturer in the world is celebrating their 16th anniversary on 5TH MAR. MLS was established in 1997 and become the largest LED manufacturer in the world in 2013 with capacity of 15 billion peaces LEDs per month. Located ...
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The Brazilian government Friday announced a rise in the amount of ethanol mixed into gasoline sold at the pumps to 25% from 20% from May 1. The announcement was published in the official Union Diary and, the government said, was taken ...