Plasma etch, deposition and thermal wafer processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK has won two more awards against other leading companies in Wales and the South West UK. This completes a year in which the firm ...
Tags: SPTS, Electrical, Electronics, Skills Investment
Asset management of ageing switchgear equipment continues to be a thorny issue for both utility companies and industry. For utilities, with Ofgem's updated 'RIIO-ED1' price control regime due in 2015, transmission and distribution network ...
Tags: ageing switchgear equipment, utility companies and industry
Michael Lippert, of Saft Energy Storage Systems, explains how the SmartRegion Pellworm project will enable an island off the North Sea coast of Germany to increase self-consumption of its own renewable energy Pellworm Island presents a ...
Tags: Blueprint, SmartRegion Pellworm project, Michael Lippert
Officials at GlaxoSmithKline in England said the company will no longer tie bonuses to sales targets and will phase out paying doctors to speak at conferences. In a statement, the drug manufacturer said it is changing its global sales and ...
The Toronto Transportation Club (TTC) put down their razors for the month of November to support men's health. The month long "Movember" challenge strives to bring men's health, particulary mental health and prostrate cancer awareness, to ...
Tags: Toronto Transportation Club, men's health, Movember, Movember challenge
Solvay announces that it has signed a worldwide social and environmental responsibility agreement with IndustriALL Global Union. The official signing ceremony took place in the presence of Jyrki Raina, General Secretary of IndustriALL, ...
China-based smartphone vendor Oppo Mobile is to challenge the sale of HTC Butterfly from HTC by promoting globally its 5-inch model, the Oppo Find 5, according to industry sources. The Oppo Find 5, launched in Beijing recently, is on par ...
Tags: OPPO, HTC Butterfly, Smartphone, China-Based Vendor
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Ennsub, the independent subsea design, engineering and technology company, has secured an order book with options in excess of £7.5 million for execution in 2014, a large proportion of which is for major international subsea ...
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Tackling excess capacity will be one of the top tasks on China's economic agenda in 2014, as the issue becomes a major challenge to maintaining the pace and quality of economic growth. "The Chinese economy still faces downward pressure ...
Tags: Slashing Capacity, Mineral
A true Tier-1 WCS must be equipped to handle 2D barcode and RFID data for individual unique SKU track and trace requirements.Multi-channel order fulfillment, referred to in the logistics industry as omni-channel fulfillment, is increasingly ...
Pakistan will enjoy concessions on 6,000 tariff lines, against the current 150 tariff lines, due to the grant of the Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status by the European Union (EU), which takes effect from January 1, 2014, ...
Tags: tariff lines, Duty
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics
In 2013 the Chinese LED packaging market has grown far quicker than the global average, reckons TrendForce's Green Energy Division LEDinside. LED lighting is still the largest application sector, accounting for 42% of the 2013 Chinese LED ...
Tags: LED, LED Packaging, Electrical, Electronics
At the November workshop at Laser Zentrum Hannover called "Laser Processing of Glass Materials," more than 70 researchers, users, and manufacturers exchanged ideas on current developments and trends in glass processing using the laser as ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration