BASF inaugurated its new Ultramid (polyamide 6 and 6/6.6) polymerization plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai, China. The new plant, with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year, will further strengthen BASF’s ...
Saudi Arabia has imposed a ban on imports of poultry meat and egg products from the Canadian province of Ontario over the detection of avian influenza at three farms. Recently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry meat
LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA claims that its new XLamp XP-L High Intensity LED is the first single-die LED to deliver more than 100,000 candela with a 50mm diameter optic at 10W (more than double the ...
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been producing 610nm-wavelength red lasers with III-nitride nanowires (NWs) grown on silicon [Shafat Jahangir et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p071108, 2015]. With a view to plastic fiber optical ...
Tags: plastic fiber, Electronics
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee passed legislation Wednesday evening that wlil give President Obama trade promotion authority, or TPA, a necessary step for his administration to conclude negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Researchers in Korea and USA have developed sidewall emission-enhanced (SEE) deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to improve light extraction efficiency DUV LEDs with wavelengths less than 300nm become very inefficient due ...
Tags: Light-Emitting Diodes, LEDs
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched three UltraCMOS glitch-less RF digital step attenuators ...
India's ITC is set to establish four food parks with an investment of more than INR200 crore (approximately $31.62 m) each in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Business Standard quoted Tamil Nadu additional chief secretary (Industries) C ...
Tags: food parks, Tamil Nadu, Mega Food Parks
Sympatex Technologies, a pioneer for high-tech functional materials in clothing, footwear, accessories and technical fields of application since 1986 has announced that it has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). The ecological ...
Tags: Apparel Coalition, Sympatex
Driven by redemption of $0.5 billion of preferred securities in December 2014, net income at NYSE listed Kimberly-Clark (K-C) was knocked down by 35.71 per cent year on year in the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. According to a K-C ...
Tags: Kimberley Clark, Q1 Net Income
Specialty textile dyes manufacturer is showing its extensive range of innovative solutions for the technical textiles sector at the upcoming Techtextil, which runs from May 4-7, 2015 in Hall 3.1 Booth C-61. “Visitors will be able ...
Tags: Technical Textiles, Techtextil, DyStar
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA added to its standard product catalog by launching a gallium nitride (GaN) low-noise amplifier (LNA) housed in a leadless 4mm x 4mm ceramic package ...
Korea Institute of Science and Technology has presented what it says is the first demonstration of indium gallium arsenide on-insulator (In0.53Ga0.47As-OI) transistors with a buried yttrium oxide (Y2O3 BOX) layer [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE ...
PSA Peugeot Citron (PSA) and General Motors (GM) will be manufacturing small light commercial vehicles (B-LCV) from their respective brands at the PSA plant in Vigo, Spain. The arrangement is a part of the existing alliance between the ...
Tags: commercial vehicles, PSA, General Motors
PSA Peugeot Citron and China-based Dongfeng have agreed to develop a technology platform for small cars. The companies will invest around €200m to create a global platform to manufacture B and C segment vehicles under the Peugeot, ...
Tags: PSA Peugeot Citron, Dongfeng, Small Cars