More than 13 GW of solar power generating capacity is now in place across the US, after 2013 witnessed a record 4.8 GW of installations, including some 2.8 GW in utility-scale projects. The explosive growth figures come from GTM ...
Tags: Photovoltaics, solar power, Electricity
US-based packaged food company ConAgra Foods has signed an agreement to sell its private label operations to TreeHouse Foods for $2.7bn in cash, which excludes transaction expenses. Under the agreement terms, ConAgra Foods will sell ...
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The European machine vision (MV) industry is in “an excellent condition”, according to the German VDMA’s latest market survey. published earlier in July. It states that the MV sector’s turnover grew more strongly ...
Tags: Machine Vision, strong growth, software
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2014 edition of its Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan, intended for R&D programs, aims to guide ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting
Packaging equipment producer Marchesini Group will set up a new branch of Marchesini Group Rus in Moscow, Russia to bolster the company's presence in the country. The branch's new facilities will be opened in January next year. These ...
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Analysts at the consultancy company IHS are predicting a 25 per cent rise in global demand for photovoltaics in 2015, with the emergence of the Indian market set to contribute strongly for the first time. “While 2014 remained a ...
Tags: PV Market, solar panels, solar PV
The annual global market for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will exceed $150 billion by 2024, as the technology shifts from a high-cost, subsidized source of electricity to one that is genuinely competitive with conventional fuels on ...
Tags: Navigant, solar photovoltaic, CdTe cells
Infineon Technologies AG introduced its first devices in a family of Gallium Nitride (GaN) on Silicon Carbide (SiC) RF power transistors at this year's European Microwave Week. As part of Infineon’s industry-leading GaN portfoliothe ...
CS Clean Systems AG of Ismaning (near Munich) and centrotherm clean solutions GmbH & Co KG of Blaubeuren, Germany (both specialists in the treatment of exhaust gases in semiconductor and solar cell production processes) signed a memorandum ...
For third-quarter 2015, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs, indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials, has reported revenue of $18.4m, down 12.4% on $21m last quarter and down 20% on ...
Global Water Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UV-C LED system designer and manufacturer AquiSense Technologies, which is unveiling what is claimed to be the world's first UV-C LED production product for water ...
Tags: UV LEDs, Global Water Technologies, UV lamps
Visitors to a new cultural center in Athens that’s due to house the Greek National Opera will find that high performance coatings from AkzoNobel have taken center stage. Being designed by renowned architects Renzo Piano Building ...
Fuwei Films, a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films in China, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fuwei Films Shandong has passed the audit assessment of Amcor again and continues to be one of the stable ...
Luxembourg-based glass and metal products firm Ardagh Group is delaying its previously planned initial public offering (IPO) for its wholly-owned subsidiary Oressa citing challenging IPO market conditions. Announced in June this year to ...
Tags: glass, metal products, metal can packaging
Chicago-based manufacturer of frozen beverage products Bevolution Group has acquired Tropics Mixology, a cocktail mix and smoothie maker. Tropics Mixology offers a broad line of beverage mixes which are believed to complement Bevolution's ...