Japanese automaker Subaru has announced plan to invest $140m in its Indiana plant in the US to boost its production capacity by 100,000 units per year. The plant currently produces 300,000 units. The investment will be made by Subaru ...
Tags: Subaru, Fuji Heavy Industries, Indiana
The US Air Force has awarded Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which makes silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices as well as LEDs, a $4.1m follow-on contract, enabling qualification of a high-performance power ...
Tags: GaN wafers, SiC
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...
Tags: SiC Power Electronics, packaging
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on a GATEWAY demonstration, in which maintenance and energy costs were significantly reduced while retaining the quality of light when LED modules replaced 87 halogen lamps in existing ...
Tags: LED Wall, LED module
FreeWire Technologies and Siemens have joined hands to pilot and market Mobi Charger, riding high on Siemens eCar Operation Center (OC) and Siemens VersiCharge electric vehicle-charging knowhow. Mobi Charger claims to power businesses to ...
Tags: auto accessories, EV batteries, batteries
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 ...
PPG Industries has announced the completion of a $5 million expansion at its coatings manufacturing facility in Wuppertal, Germany. The project added equipment to existing buildings on the campus, supporting up to a 35 percent increase in ...
Tags: PPG Industries, Coatings
PPG Industries recently completed a $5 million expansion at its coatings manufacturing facility in Wuppertal, Germany. The project added equipment to existing buildings on the campus, supporting up to a 35 percent increase in annual ...
Tags: PPG Industries, coatings
Food packaging company Sealed Air has begun the construction of its new headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. The company will move to the new campus at LakePointe Corporate Center in early 2017, and is expected to employ around ...
Tags: Sealed Air Company, Food packaging, food
BASF has opened a new Agricultural Research Station in Loni Kand, Pune, India. This new research and development (R&D) center will focus on global agricultural research on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, as well as on solutions ...
Chicago-based private equity firm Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne (CIVC) has launched Champagne app in Hong Kong and China for the younger generations. Dubbed, Champagne Campus, the new app is available on IOS, ...
Tags: CIVC, Champagne App
Specialty food ingredients company Campus has partnered with White Bridge Investments to ramp up internationalization and commercial network expansion. Both the companies have signed an agreement to this effect. White Bridge, the new ...
In late March, on the 10 hectare former airstrip at the Gatton campus of The University of Queensland in Brisbane St Lucia, the 3.275MW Gatton Solar Research Facility (the state's largest solar array) was officially opened by Industry and ...
Tags: First Solar, Queensland, PV System
Power management company Eaton today announced that it has helped improve the lighting performance and energy efficiency in a campus recreation facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. By replacing almost 400 lighting ...
Tags: LED Solutions, LED luminaires
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has selected NXP Semiconductors to set up a S$22m ($16.2m) smart mobility test bed at the campus, to accelerate introducing life-saving vehicle communications. The move will support ...