SynCardia Systems, a manufacturer of Total Artificial Heart, has secured $15m structured financing from Athyrium Opportunities Fund and $4m follow-on equity investment from existing shareholders. The company will use the capital to ...
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UK natural gas prices for same-day delivery spiked as high as 150 pence/therm ($22.80/MMBtu) early Friday as a key pipeline that carries gas to the country from Continental Europe halted operations against a backdrop of cold weather and low ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has approved gasoline with 15 percent ethanol for use in cars year 2001 or newer, yet it prohibits its use in mowers and other power equipment, stating it may cause damage. A Department of Energy study ...
Researchers at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers have developed a new software-based methodology to help ensure the safety of packaging throughout the supply chain. The Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched three new surface-mount line amplifiers. The ACA2460E, ACA2461E and ACA2462E 1GHz line amplifiers are optimized for ...
A piping system is crucial to any process plant; hence it needs to be designed with precision and care. The efficiency of a plant highly depends on its ability to transport fluid through pipes to various equipment that function ...
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What are Refractories? To put it simply, refractory is any material that has the ability to withstand the action of abrasive or corrosive solids, liquids or gases at high temperatures. Depending upon the application areas and operating ...
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A pipe with kinks or folds in it has always been regarded as a failure, but by carefully selecting where and how to place the kinks, they become decorative details that also retain their strength. Straw, the first chair with kinks in its ...
Recycled composite rail ties from AXION were recently reordered for use by Miami Dade Transit. With this second order, Miami Dade Transit is continuing to implement recycled composite ECOTRAX™ rail ties in its infrastructure, while ...
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LED fixtures provide the required high lumen output and distribution for the 80-foot installation. Faced with the task of satisfying both an interstate interchange project requirement to use high-mast lighting and the need to match the ...
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Agile development specialist Alistair Cockburn acknowledges that "agile is not for every project, but the hard part is to name which projects it's not for." Broadly, anything where a need for 100% reliability exceeds the need for ...
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The French Jewish Students' Union has filed a lawsuit seeking 38.5 million euros (US$50 million) in criminal damages from Twitter and its CEO Dick Costolo over the company's failure to identify those responsible for a series of anti-semitic ...
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Faced with the task of satisfying both an interstate interchange project requirement to use high-mast lighting and the need to match the color temperature of existing LED fixtures on surrounding roadways, Cooper Lighting, a leader at the ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has introduced FastSMP, a next generation network ...
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St. Thomas Fish Market, a Canadian establishment, is voluntarily recalling Bar Clams over concerns that they may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The product associated ...
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