The Consumer Electronics Show just completed its Las Vegas run and SSL technology was showcased in products ranging from the latest TVs to retrofit lamps, and adaptive controls were prevalent as well. The annual Consumer Electronics Show ...
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Tablets will be rated based on the Energy Star specification in the future. The specification will be part of the Energy Star version 6.1, according to documents posted on the U.S. Energy Star website. But a date for ratings on tablets ...
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Sage Saint-Gobain Europe will regroup senior managers from Saint-Gobain with many years of architectural glass industry experience, according to an announcement from the company. The specification team will be headed up by Kirk Ratzel, ...
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The third edition of INGLASS is about glass and glass construction, architecture and engineering, facade systems and solar energy. INGLASS 2013 addresses the entire glass industry, architects, engineers, glass producers, processors, ...
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MI Windows and Doors announces the launch of a new energy efficient window line, the HomeMaker3 Series. Available in the Western Region, HomeMaker3 windows are designed to meet the new stringent energy requirements for the proposed ENERGY ...
Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end-products and primarily in windows and façades for buildings, windscreens and windows ...
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Last week's Consumer Electronics Show was a great opportunity to check out the two newest TV technologies, Ultra HD and OLED—sometimes in side-by-side comparisons. During a live webcast in which I was interviewed along with USA ...
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There isn't a shortage of rare earth metals in the ground, but one country, China, has managed to dominate about 95% of the market. It not only mines the metals, but it has built a supply chain to produce them. The U.S. once led global ...
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It's becoming more common to buy major appliances online—roughly 10 percent of refrigerator sales now happen there, versus at a brick and mortar store, up from a blip 10 years ago. But for all the convenience of online appliance ...
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Steklarna Hrastnik is to undergo a scheduled two-month refit. Today, the technologists in the Vitrum business unit will shut down the G melting furnace, and as of 1 February also the H melting furnace. This year's refit is extremely ...
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Global As part of global efforts to promote efficient lighting, United Nations Environment Programme with the support of the GEF Earth Fund, Philips Lighting and OSRAM GmbH has established the initiative. The initiative seeks to ...
Dip-Tech, the world-leading provider of digital ceramic in-glass printing solutions, today announced that it has received ABZ-70.1-75 certification from the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (German Institute for Civil Engineering). ...
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GE has pulled no punches in promoting its new 36-inch-wide French-door refrigerator. Earlier this year, as part of an online marketing campaign, the manufacturer strapped the new fridge to the back of a pickup truck and sent it on a ...
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MAS Holdings was lauded at the recently concluded National Green Awards for four manufacturing facilities that promoted a 'cleaner and greener Sri Lanka'. Organized by the Central Environmental Authority of Sri Lanka for the second year ...
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The average American kitchen stands at about 300 square feet, up 50 percent from the early 1970s, according to the National Association of Home Builders. In some megahouses, the kitchen alone can top 1,000 square feet. At the other end of ...
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