North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.17 billion in orders worldwide in April 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.08, according to the April EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published ...
There are some very specific problems that need to be overcome when dealing with produced waters from offshore oil and gas production. In the first of a series of three articles, oil industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment ...
Apart from gradually replacing traditional lighting, LED lighting is targeting the high-end market with more value-added products. In addition, commercialization of OLED lighting has also started. LED lighting prices were four times as ...
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Xerium Technologies, Inc. a leading global provider of industrial consumable products and services, announced that it has refinanced its existing term loan and revolving credit facility with the proceeds of a new term loan arranged by ...
The final specifications of the Porsche 918 Spyder have been released, confirming that the plug-in hybrid hypercar will be the quickest, most powerful and most fuel efficient vehicle in the brand’s history. Porsche says the 918 ...
Growth in home sales and prices is contributing to a broader improvement in the overall economy, aided in part by current homeownership tax treatment, according to presentations at a residential real estate forum during the Realtors Midyear ...
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According to data from the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), US service centers shipments of steel products in April 2013 increased 2.1 percent from April 2012. Meanwhile, steel product inventories at the end of April 2013 decreased ...
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German sports car manufacturer Porsche has introduced the new 918 Spyder hybrid sports car, which is claimed to be the quickest, powerful and fuel efficient model manufactured by the carmaker so far. The new sports car is powered by a ...
Minneapolis-based Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life) has posted operating profit of $134m for the first quarter of 2013 compared to $217m in 2012. Decrease in the year-over-year quarterly profit and the ...
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Sales of main 6 countries of Southeast Asia from January to March were 943,505 vehicles, an increase of 28%. By the demand policy of the governments and strong personal consumption, Thailand and other top four countries became a growth ...
IDG News Service - A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard. Interxion, a collocation company in the Netherlands that rents ...
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May 13, 2013 — High-level simulations reveal that plastic deformation in super-resilient alloys is governed by atomic zones with characteristic lengths. Quick-cooling molten atoms give metal alloys a glassy, or random, atomic ...
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German AlN crystal maker CrystAl-N is shifting its production from 1-inch to 2-inch AlN and accepting pre-orders of the new material. According to the company, which was founded in 2010 as spin-off of Friedrich-Alexander-University ...
US-based polysilicon maker MEMC has reported first-quarter 2013 financial results with net sales of US$443.6 million, down 26% on quarter and 15% on year. The firm reported first-quarter gross margin of 11.2%, lower than 18% in the fourth ...
Approved by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China [Ref. No.: (2012)0407], SNEC (2013) International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition [SNEC PV POWER EXPO] will be held in Shanghai, ...
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