UK-based Environmental Services Association (ESA) has recommended the HM Treasury to work with Defra to increase recycling in the country. ESA is a trade association that represents the resource and waste management industry in the UK. ...
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Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France – a subsidiary of Safran and Thales that makes infrared (IR) detectors for aerospace, defense and commercial markets – says that its detector Tropomi is among the instruments launched on ...
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The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...
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Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France – a subsidiary of Safran and Thales that makes cooled infrared (IR) detectors for military, space, scientific and industrial applications – is developing its first very-large-format ...
The European Commission's European Research Council (ERC) has granted €2.5m to professor Mircea Guina of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) to apply new technology in solar cell ...
Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd of Petah Tikva, Israel (which provides products and services for satellite-based broadband communications) has signed a development agreement with a major aerospace systems integrator to further develop both its ...
What is decribed as the first European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) to be sent into space has completed its second year of operations. Hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) on its Earth-observing Proba-V mini-satellite in ...
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) ...
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Lantmannen has agreed to acquire all the remaining shares, it does not already own in Finland-based thin crisp producer Vaasan, from Lion Capital for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is in line with Lantmannen's strategy to ...
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The recently held annual meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), welcomed contributions from African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) about their work with the International Trade Centre (ITC) on a regional ...
Bloodhound Project’s rocket partner Nammo has successfully tested its large hybrid rocket motors in its Norwegian test site which is expected to power Bloodhound Supersonic Car. The supersonic car is expected to be equipped with ...
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Central Glass, a parent company of Carlex Glass, announced that it has finalized pending acquisitions to expand Carlex’s business operations. Central Glass has officially acquired all of the outstanding shares of two subsidiaries of ...
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Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.2 percent in the EU28 region, during the second quarter of 2014, compared with the previous quarter, according to second estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office ...
Invotec Group, Europe’s leading manufacturer of time critical, high technology PCBs, is delighted to announce that it has been formally awarded ESA approval – the first PCB supplier to achieve such approval in many years. The ...
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