The NYMEX June natural gas futures contract closed 10 cents higher at a $4.505/MMBtu settlement on Tuesday as the market eyed forecasts for above-normal temperatures into June that could curb storage refills. "What we're seeing is the ...
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The FDA has approved the sweetener advantame for use in the US The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the new food additive, advantame, is safe for use as a general-purpose sweetener and flavour enhancer in food, ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the XLamp XP-L, which is claimed to be the first commercially available single-die LED to achieve efficacy of up to 200 lumens per watt (LPW) at 350mA. ...
The NYMEX June natural gas futures contract settled 4.6 cents higher at $4.405/MMBtu on Friday as the market consolidated ahead of the holiday weekend and eyed forecasts for hotter than normal weather into June. "Despite the short-term ...
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Advantame, a new high intensity sweetener, has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for general use in foods and beverages. The new sweetener, whose safety is supported by 37 scientific studies, has ...
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The Platts LNG Japan Korea Marker for July, the newly assessed front month, began trading at $13.625/MMBtu on Friday. The marker for June fell 32.5 cents from last Friday to close at $13.625/MMBtu on Thursday amid ample supply and weak ...
Tags: LNG, Weak Demand
Researchers in Germany have developed two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) gallium nitride (GaN) channel structures with record mobility [B Reuters et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol47, p175103, 2014]. Mobility for 2DHGs in GaN is usually ...
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U.S. factory output slid last month after two months of strong growth. Manufacturers produced less furniture, machinery, and plastics. The Federal Reserve says that factory production in April dropped 0.4 percent from the previous month ...
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In booth #7718 at the LightFair International 2014 event in Las Vegas (3-5 June), Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is ...
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South Korea's state-owned Korea Gas Corp imported 12.61 million mt of LNG in the first quarter, up 0.5% from 12.55 million mt a year earlier, the company said in a statement Wednesday. All of the volumes were imported under long-term ...
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Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-diamond wafers have been proven by Raytheon Company to significantly outperform ...
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European spot prices were rangebound Monday, with contracts generally finding support around Friday's closing levels as gas supply turns up to meet higher demand. Day-ahead gas contracts on the Dutch TTF hub have traded in a ...
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Demand for gallium is forecast to rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This strong growth is not, however, likely to result in any ...
Tags: Gallium Market, GaN-Based LED
Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report showed farmers spent last week getting after it, bringing corn and soybean planting up to schedule. Farmers in parts of the Corn Belt have all their corn in the ground and have moved on to soybeans, ...
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Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
Tags: Gallium, LED, Electrical, Electronics