Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards,which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines.The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Wednesday,Oct.17,at Pier Sixty ...
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More than a century after General Electric Co. (GE) built its first research laboratory in an upstate New York barn, it’s wooing Silicon Valley engineers in a bid to connect machines the way Facebook Inc. (FB) links people. New hires ...
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Asahi Kasei, a diversified chemical manufacturer with businesses in the health care, chemicals and fibers, homes and construction materials in Japan, has completed the acquisition of ZOLL Medical. With the completion of the ...
Following is the text of U. S. Non-manufacturing conditions from the Institute for Supply Management. Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in March for the 27th consecutive month, say the nation’s purchasing and ...
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To center on energy sector, Panasonic Corp. has reorganized its business fields and two wholly owned units into three main groups. According to the company, the major electronics maker's business fields as of Sunday are now divided into ...
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By 2020, conventional streetlights would be replaced by LEDs. The LEDs consume one-third of the power consumed by the conventional streetlights and also illuminate a larger area. The LED bulbs and tubelights would become a part of every ...
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By 2020, conventional streetlights would be replaced by LEDs. The LEDs consume one-third of the power consumed by the conventional streetlights and also illuminate a larger area. The LED bulbs and tubelights would become a part of every ...
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PPG has released its Paint Color Portfolio "fan deck" with 2012-2013 color trends to help architects, designers, commercial builders and building owners update, renovate or build new hotel, retail, office and health care facilities. Within ...
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Penn State Behrend engineering student Kaitlin Wolf aspires to design and develop medical plastic devices in the health-care industry. The 21-year-old senior from Buffalo will be among an inaugural class of six Behrend students scheduled to ...
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The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is announcing that a case study about its successful installation of 29 kilowatts of off-grid photovoltaic (PV) systems to provide electricity to the Thomonde Hospital in Haiti is available online from ...
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The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is announcing that a case study about its successful installation of 29 kilowatts of off-grid photovoltaic (PV) systems to provide electricity to the Thomonde Hospital in Haiti is available online from ...
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American and European plastics firms are stepping up their investments in medical manufacturing in China, as that country undertakes a major expansion of its health-care system. The investments are driven both by global medical-device ...
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Sealed LED lighting units protect patients from harmful bacteria, while providing uniformly-distributed dimmable light. MHA Lighting Ltd. (Manchester, UK) has worked with the National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in the UK to combat ...
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Sealed LED lighting units protect patients from harmful bacteria, while providing uniformly-distributed dimmable light. MHA Lighting Ltd. (Manchester, UK) has worked with the National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in the UK to combat ...
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West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. has begun constructing a compression molding plant in Shanghai, China, to handle new growth and expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. While West is growing in Asia, it's consolidating in the U. S. ...
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