Nissan is working on a system that will power cars with electricity generated from bio-ethanol. The Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC) system is claimed to be the world first for automotive use. It features an e-Bio Fuel-Cell with an SOFC power ...
Tags: SOFC, e-Bio Fuel Cell
The Furniture Makers’ Company, the furnishing industry’s charity, has announced that for the fist time ever it will be accepting entries for its prestigious Sustainability Award from all UK furnishings manufacturers. Now in ...
Tags: furnishing industry, FISP, improvements
Xidian University in China has used pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to increase indium gallium nitride (InGaN) room-temperature channel mobility to 1681cm2/V-s, which is claimed to be a record [Yachao Zhang et al, ...
Semiconductor process equipment maker SAMCO Inc has held a completion ceremony for its second production center (a two-floor steel-framed building adjacent to the headquarters in Kyoto, Japan), which began construction in January and is ...
Tags: Semiconductor, PECVD, MOCVD
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has set a world record for thin-film photovoltaic cell energy ...
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The International Dark-Sky Association and the National Park Service are excited to announce that Grand Canyon National Park is now a Provisional IDA International Dark Sky Park. “The designation of Grand Canyon National Park as an ...
As a bellwether for the U.S. jewelry market and global diamond industry, this year's Las Vegas shows met the trade's conservative expectations. While foot traffic and diamond trading were slightly slower than previous years, jewelry sales ...
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Volkswagen has adopted a new strategy to become a lead in sustainable mobility by bringing out more than 30 new e-vehicles by 2025. In order to achieve these goals, the Board of Management - with the approval of the Supervisory Board - ...
Tags: Volkswagen, pact for the future, BEVS
German luxury vehicles maker Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) has broken on a new plant in Mexico. Guests attending the official ceremony in San Luis Potosí included Rogelio Garza Garza, Undersecretary of Industry and Commerce at the ...
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Plastic packaging material manufacturer Astrapak, through its company Consupaq, has introduced new tubing product, Econo, for its customers in the cosmetic market. Developed in sizes such as 15ml, 25ml 50ml, 75ml, 100ml, 125ml and 150ml, ...
Tags: Astrapak, cosmetic market, Consupaq
US based sustainable packaging solutions provider Ball Corporation has partnered with Faultless Starch/Bon Ami to launch two-piece tinplate aerosol can in the US market. The team will offer the Faultless Starch/Bon Ami's products in the ...
Tags: tinplate aerosol, G3-HD, aerosol container
Cascades,a recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue products, has announced plans to build a new tissue converting plant in Scappoose, Oregon, US. The US$64 million investment includes new state-of-the-art converting lines ...
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The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) is set to launch a Common Footprint Quality (CFQ) standard for the UK’s fresh produce industry that will ensure safe and high performance corrugated packaging for fruit and vegetables. ...
Tags: CPI, CFQ, produce supply
At Google's big developer conference, I/O 2016, the company announced Android apps would be coming to its desktop operating system Chrome OS. There has been talk of Android/Chrome OS integration for some time and now the first stage in ...
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In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has purchased a large number of its latest metrology systems for fab-wide metal-organic chemical vapor ...