THE Australian stockmarket opened higher following gains on Wall Street and European bourses as Alcoa kicked of the US earnings season. The aluminium producer posted a sharp Q2 loss of $US119 million ($130.989 million) citing ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
American high-performance vehicle manufacturer Saleen Automotive has officially unveiled its latest offering: the Saleen 351 Mustang. Armed with a 5.75-litre (351 cubic inch) supercharged V8 that makes 522kW and a ground-pounding 887Nm of ...
Tags: car, auto, Transportation
Wooden logs, cement bags, plumbing equipments, bricks and many other items are very easy to transport on a simple platform trolley. This trolley is especially designed to carry heavy items including television, washing machines and other ...
Tents are an important part of any outdoor event. When done properly with all the right equipment and knowledge about camping, it can be really fun and you will have a great time. Staying in a tent is a great way to be in the fresh air and ...
Tags: Camping Tent, canvas tents, tents
Precision machining has found wider acceptance in producing post production tools such as rods, pulleys. They offer the highest degree of precision while fabricating these materials. That is why CNC turning or anywhere for that matter, has ...
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It’s official; BMW has announced production of the BMW M3 coupe has come to an end. Tracing its heritage back to the first-generation E30 from 1986, more than 40,000 examples of the fourth- and final-generation BMW M3 coupe have ...
Speaking exclusively to Packaging News, Ball Europe Packaging Europe president Colin?Gillis said: "The London Metal Exchange [LME] sets the price for aluminium. The parties who set the premiums for shipping and warehousing have raised the ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Digital printing
The UK’s Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has collaborated with British Glass and the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) to launch a new recycling communications initiative for local authorities. Aimed ...
The UK's University of Manchester has used band engineering on indium phosphide (InP) to create indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistors (pHEMTs) with reduced gate current leakage and high breakdown ...
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The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC has developed a method to grow epitaxial nitride semiconductors on graphene [Neeraj Nepal et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p061003, 2013]. The researchers hope that this could lead to ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics, hot-electron transistors
Subaru has released its Japan-only Subaru WRX STI tS Type RA, and if you’re questioning the car’s name, you won’t question its running gear. The Subaru WRX STI tS Type RA, which is limited to a maximum run of 300 units, ...
Tags: Subaru, Japan-Only Limited Edition
Pieces of the all-new Volvo XC90 puzzle will be revealed progressively over the coming months before the complete picture comes together at its late-2014 unveiling. Volvo this week gave us an early look at some of the innovative ...
Tags: Volvo, Frankfurt Motor Show
The Vuhl 05 supercar has been officially revealed just days before its planned unveiling at this month’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Powered by a 213kW/420Nm version of the turbocharged 2.0-litre Ford EcoBoost engine, the 725kg ...
A lightly camouflaged prototype of the new long-wheelbase Range Rover has been spied in the UK. The seemingly production-ready test car gives us our clearest look yet at the stretched version of Range Rover’s new flagship luxury SUV ...
Tags: Stretched SUV, Range Rover
China-based researchers have reported that country's first diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs) with RF characteristics [Feng ZhiHong et al, Science China Technological Sciences, vol56, p957, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: Diamond MESFET MESFET Diamond, Electrical, Electronics