Osaka University in Japan has developed a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) process for the growth of gallium nitride (GaN) in a sodium (Na) flux with a small amount of carbon (C) that, with the addition of lithium (Li) and gallium, can also be ...
Rochling Group is investing €35m in its Neuhaus am Rennweg plant, creating 70 new jobs. This will enable a significant expansion in the production capacities of Rochling-HPT Hochwertige Pharmatechnik GmbH & Co. KG, giving a ...
Tags: diagnostic industry, GMP class, C clean room
Garrett Popcorn Shops is opening its first location in the Washington, D.C. metro area at The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City. For more than six decades, Garrett Popcorn has been handcrafting small batches of gourmet Popcorn for millions ...
Tags: non-GMO kernels, kernels
PeopleForBikes last week was in Washington D.C. for an all-women’s Fly-in with sixteen of top bicycle industry executives to help make biking better in America. PeopleForBikes leaders and industry executives met with members of ...
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REI will open its fifth flagship store in the Washington D.C. area in late 2016 at the site chosen by President Eisenhower for his inaugural ball and by the Beatles for their first concert in the U.S. The REI flagship will serve the fast ...
Tags: flagship store, Sporting Goods
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the sixth annual list of the top 25 U.S. metropolitan areas with the most Energy Star certified buildings. The cities on this list demonstrate the economic and environmental ...
Tags: EPA, commercial buildings, Certification Rules, certification
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has realized junctionless (JL) gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowire field-effect transistors (NWFETs) "for the first time" by implantation-free source/drain metal-organic chemical vapour deposition ...
LEDtronics®, Inc., today announced that it helped the Hilton Garden Inn in Washington, D.C., eliminate the time and costs involved in maintaining old, incandescent bulbs on their marquee canopy by replacing them with the latest in ...
Tags: LED Lamps, Incandescent Bulbs
More than 5,893 leaks from aging natural gas pipelines have been found under the streets of Washington, D.C. by a research team from Duke University and Boston University. A dozen of the leaks could have posed explosion risks, the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The District of Columbia has selected Citelum to manage and upgrade the city's 71,000 street lights to a state-of-the-art, sustainable system. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced today that it has awarded Washington's ...
Tags: LED street lighting, Street Lighting, Lights, Lighting
In the journal Nature, researchers published a novel pathway that would allow for preprogrammable self-assembly of nanoparticles. The potential nanomedical applications of this discovery could be endless. A team of Finnish and German ...
American Tire Distributors Inc. (ATD) recently opened a distribution center in West Palm Beach, Fla. It is the company's 108th D/C in the United States. ATD also has 24 distribution centers in Canada. Based in Huntersville, N.C., ATD is ...
Tags: tyre, tire, auto parts
For the second time, Voith has been awarded a contract for a hydropower project in Africa: the company will modernize Inga I hydropower station in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project on the River Congo, led by Voith in a ...
Tags: Modernizes Generators, Voith
Voting is open for Saris Cycling Group's 3rd National Poster Contest. The company has selected first-place posted from each of the states that participated in the contest. Each state winner received a bike, light and helmet. Votes will ...
Tags: Voting, Saris Poster Contest, Cycling
Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies said during a Capitol Hill briefing. The U.S. patent system isn't perfect, but lawmakers ...
Tags: Software patents, software, US