General Motors (Gm) said it will invest $14m on a new facility in San Francisco for Cruise Automation to accelerate the development of autonomous cars. GM acquired the driverless tech startup last March. The new R&D facility, which is ...
Just last week, we learned Apple was going to be "rethinking" its Mac Pro desktop computer, after introducing the new-look 'trash can' version of the desktop way back in 2013. Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller was ...
With LED lighting popularity rapidly climbing worldwide, the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS) continues to be held in conjunction with LED Taiwan at the same venue this year, serving as a one-stop sourcing platform for buyers ...
Tags: Lighting Industry, LED
China’s installation rush by June 30th has revived market demand beginning from last week. However, the speed of rising has been slow. Thus, price of polysilicon remained falling this week. Some price quotations even fell below US $ ...
Tags: PV Demand, Polysilicon
LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology is decreasing production for light bulbs and increasing that for more profitable lamps, with the proportion of lighting revenues for the former to slip to 20% and the latter to rise to ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED lamp
Kush Bottles, a provider of packaging, supplies, accessories and branding solutions for the regulated cannabis industry, reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2017. Second Quarter Fiscal 2017 ...
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Valmet has secured a repeat order from First Quality Tissues (FQT) for its Advantage THRU-AIR tissue line. FQT plans to begin a new production line in the second quarter of 2018 and it will increase its production by 70,000 tons of ultra ...
Valmet will deliver its DNA automation systems and IQ quality control systems for four tissue machines at Jiangxi Taison Paper in China. Valmet’s automation technology will allow Jiangxi Taison Paper’s tissue machines to ...
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Naura Technology (formerly Beijing Sevenstar Electronics) has started shipping ion etch equipment for the manufacture of 14nm chips to chipmakers, while Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) is being engaged in the development of etch ...
Tags: chipmakers, Electronics, chip
San Jose-based Solar Frontier Americas, the US subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has sold its 40MWDC (30MWAC) Midway ...
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US ride-hailing firm Lyft has raised $600m in new round of financing at a $7.5bn valuation. The investors in the funding round include KKR, Baillie Gifford, Alliance Bernstein, Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) ...
Tags: Lyft, self-driving car
Ford has unveiled the second of 13 new electrified vehicles the company plans to introduce in the next five years. The industry’s first pursuit-rated hybrid police car, the all-new Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan, is part of a ...
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Volpak has unveiled an inverted pouch solution, which is available in the US through RA Jones. The patented Standcap Pouch solution will enable manufacturers to adopt functional pouch packaging to revitalize signature brands, It will ...
Tags: Volpak, Pouch Packaging
Constellium has installed a new recycling furnace at its Muscle Shoals, Alabama facility to expand recycling capabilities in North America. The now fully operational furnace is expected to increase the total recycling output by 170 ...
Tags: Furnace, Recycling Capabilities
Loews has agreed to acquire US-based rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Consolidated Container Company (CCC) from Bain Capital Private Equity for about $1.2bn. Based in Atlanta of Georgia, CCC offers packaging solutions to stable end ...
Tags: plastic packaging, packaging