A Korea/USA team of engineering researchers has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (MOSHEMT) with embedded Schottky barrier diode (SBD) [Bong-Ryeol Park et al, Semicond. Sci. ...
Tags: GaN Transistors, Embedding
Solexant Corp of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new corporate identity as Siva Power, the culmination of a two-year transition to a platform that aims to create a profitable path to sub-$0.40 per watt solar power, along with what it ...
Tags: NREL PVMC CIGS, Electrical, Electronics, PV
There’s a little bit of Toyota in the Mazda 3 Hybrid. This version of the third-generation 3 small car borrows hybrid components from the Prius and mates it with its own 2.0-litre petrol engine to create its first petrol-electric ...
The EU glass industries are facing high energy costs, the world’s strictest environmental and climate regulations and have been severely impacted by the economic crisis. While competitiveness is high on the agenda, the carbon leakage ...
Tags: Glass Industries, Carbon Leakage
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Claudio Facchin as Executive Committee member responsible for the Power Systems division, effective Dec. 1, 2013. He succeeds Brice Koch, who will leave ABB on Jan. 15, ...
Tags: ABB, appoint, Claudio Facchin, executive, Power System
Aker Solutions agreed today to sell its well-intervention services business area to EQT, a Swedish private equity fund, for an enterprise value of NOK 4 billion. The agreement includes an earn-out provision where Aker Solutions will ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Qantas will close its Avalon heavy maintenance facility at the end of March 2014 due to the gradual retirement of its Boeing 747 fleet, making the operation unviable. Qantas Domestic chief executive officer Lyell Strambi said after a ...
Tags: Qantas, Avalon, workshop, laying off
AmeriPride Services Inc., a leading supplier of linen and uniform rental services in North America, today announced the acquisition of SoCal Uniform's textile rental business in San Gabriel, Calif. AmeriPride began servicing their new ...
Tags: AmeriPride, SoCal, uniform, textile, San Gabriel, California
A panel of industry leaders gathered at the Ontario Trucking Association conference to address methods to manage generational gaps in the business of trucking. Managing the generation gap in your business, a session that was held on ...
Tags: gap, industry, leader, closing, generational gap
Australian owned, Gold Coast based sports apparel company WRS Group has outlined plans to transition from KooGa Australia to the rapidly expanding BLK brand from November 2013. Since being introduced to the Australian sporting landscape ...
Tags: BLK Brand, Kooga Australia
Italian firm plans to build world's largest cellulosic ethanol plant in China Commercial manufacture of cellulosic bioethanol from agricultural residue is expected to be given further impetus after commercial production begins in China ...
Tags: Agricultural Waste, Energy
Mecox Lane Limited, a multi-brand and multi-channel retailer of apparel and accessories in China, announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013. The Company also announced the upcoming departure, ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Mecox Lane
California has revised its controversial Technical Bulletin 117 and adopted a new flammability standard that should allow producers to make furniture and baby products that do not contain flame retardant chemicals beginning Jan. 1. ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
For China Mobile executives, it seems like just yesterday that the mobile carrier was the only game in town. The company, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, dominated the industry for most of the past decade. With ...
Tags: China Mobile, 4G Services
The series of reforms announced over the weekend in China could begin to change the way the country's local and regional governments (LRGs) operate, said Fitch Ratings, a London-based credit rating company, on Tuesday. If implemented ...
Tags: China's Reforms, Economy