Italian packaging machinery company SIPA has launched two single-stage PET injection stretch blow moulders for small production runs. Sales manager Pietro Marcati said the ECS SP80 and ECS SP50 “fill the last gap” in the ...
Tags: PET injection, packaging machinery
According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
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Design and packaging firm Graphic Packaging International has opened up its Global Innovation Centre (GIC) for consumers in the UK, to support new developments in food and beverage packging. Developed with an investment of $1m at Bardon ...
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Technavio, an independent tech-focused global research firm, has announced the publication of its market research report on the global food contact paper and board market 2015-2019. One of the major trends emerging in the market is the ...
Tags: chemicals, eco-friendly coating, paint pigment, water-based coating
Global developer of motor and motion control technologies Trinamic Motion Control has announced its latest single-axis stepper motor control and driver IC. The TMC2100, with integrated MOSFETs to drive RMS motor current to 1.2A, is ...
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A scientist from James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to undertake research on the fundamental mechanisms that underpin the inheritance of genetic characteristics ...
German automotive major BMW Group, which had joined forces with Scherm group, has pressed 100% electric trucks into service in Munich, Germany. With this, the carmaker has earned the distinction of being the maiden automaker in Europe to ...
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The winners of the most prestige product design awards, Red Dot, were unveiled in June in Germany. The design experts of international repute comprised the Red Dot jury , and the composition changes every year. To avoid conflicts of ...
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The New York City administration has begun implementing ban on expanded polystyrene (EPS) foams used for making cups, bowls, plates, takeout containers, and trays for being non-recyclable. Announced by the New York administration in ...
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Japanese automobile major Toyota has developed Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, charting out future course for mobility with an Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)-estimated rating of 312 miles driving range on a single fill of ...
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has received the ‘Distinguished Achievement Award’ of the US Department of Energy. With this prestigious award, the Department has recognized the commitment and results of the SuperTruck ...
VisIC Technologies Ltd of Rehovot, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metail-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has unveiled what it ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, power transistor
With funding of about €3.9m from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 12 partners in the German automotive sector, its supply industry and the sciences (led by Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany) are ...
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2015 (ended 3 May), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $320m, up 4.5% on about $306m both a year ago and last quarter. The ...
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UK-based Wrights Food has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a new range of ready meals. The new Classic range features 19 different dishes that are made by combining traditional slow cooking methods with the ...
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