Stemco, an EnPro Industries company, announces its acquisition of the manufacturer of Goodyear air springs, as well as Super Cushion and Spring Ride air springs, from ContiTech, a division of Continental Corporation. This business unit ...
Tags: comapny acquisition, Stemco, EnPro industries, air springs
American private investment firm Bain Capital has completed acquiring UK-based automobile fluid storage firm TI Automotive. TI Automotive president, CEO and chairman of the board Bill Kozyra, who will go on discharging his current ...
Tags: TI Automotive, fluid storage, Bain Capital
Rigid plastic container manufacturer Plastipak Packaging, an arm of Plastipak Holdings, will pump in $9m for raising output capacity at its manufacturing unit in Pineville, Louisiana, in the US. The company, which makes rigid plastic ...
The Skoda model campaign continues full steam ahead. Just like the hatchback, the Skoda Superb Combi attains a new level in terms of creativity and technology. With the new Superb Combi, Skoda demonstrates the brand's emotional strength ...
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Indian lingerie and sleepwear brand Clovia has named a new leadership team that it said will lead the company into its next stage of growth. “Pankaj Vermani has joined Clovia as its chief executive officer, while Aditya Chaturvedi ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has raised its revenue guidance for second-quarter 2015 by 5%, from the $9.3-9.5m ...
Soitec of Bernin, France has announced a new step in its SmartCell project by raising the record for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module solar energy conversion efficiency from 36.7% (announced in July 2014) to 38.9% Previously (last ...
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is launching the ML562G84 638nm-wavelength red laser diode (LD), offering what is claimed to be record output power (under pulsed operation) of 2.5W for a 638nm projector light source. The record ...
UK based charity WRAP has unveiled a five year plan which aims to create a revolution in the way that industries use resources, which also includes textiles and clothing. “Resource Revolution: Creating the Future" sets out how ...
The Southern Taiwan Science Park currently has 200 vendors with cumulative investments of NT$1.3 trillion (US$42.15 billion). Sales volume from the vendors totaled NT$640 billion in 2014 and are expected to climb to NT$740 billion in 2015. ...
Tags: panel industry, medical equipment
At the next Intertextile Shanghai Home Textile edition, which runs from August 26-28, 2015, over 1,400 exhibitors from 30 countries and regions have confirmed their participation. “After last year’s record-breaking edition, ...
Exagan of Grenoble, France, a gallium nitride (GaN) technology start-up that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, has raised €5.7m in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN switching device
Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared (IR) detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe), indium antimonide (InSb), quantum-well infrared photodetector (QWIP) and indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) ...
Tags: IR Detectors, infrared detector
Recent turbulence in the raw material supply chain is forcing Europe’s leading fresh food packaging manufacturer, LINPAC to increase its rigid and flexible packaging prices, but this will not impact the Australian market. The ...
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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 ...
Tags: Finisar, OpEx, Electronics