Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has agreed to acquire the Mitsubishi Electric power device sales business currently handled by Powerex Inc of Youngwood, PA, USA (a 50:50 joint venture between Mitsubishi Electric and General Electric), ...
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Bemis Company has reported financial results for its first quarter ended 31 March, 2017. Initiatives to Improve U.S. Packaging Operations and Profitability As part of the Company’s efforts to improve the profitability of its U.S. ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has appointed Daniel Castillo as president, Lighting, leading both the commercial and consumer lighting businesses and reporting to chairman & CEO Chuck Swoboda. ...
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Eric Boutot has joined Grundfos as operations vice president for the Americas region. Boutot, a 46 year old US citizen, comes to Grundfos from Colfax Fluid Handling where he was vice president of operations of the EMEA & India regions. ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
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U.S.-based General Electric has won a contract to supply turbines to the Wudongde hydropower plant located in southwest China. The company will provide six turbine-generator sets and related equipment, accounting for half of the project's ...
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Taiwan's machine-tool makers have entered into an alliance with the island's aircraft builders and a government-backed laboratory to develop intelligent industrial technology to sharpen their machine tool capability to manufacture aircraft, ...
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In a major development for Western energy markets, NV Energy, Nevada's largest utility, will begin participating in the region's energy imbalance market on December 1. The move, announced late Friday, follows the Federal Energy Regulatory ...
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General Electric (GE) has completed the sale of its US fleet services business to Element Financial for $5bn. The company said that the sale of GE's Mexican, Australian and New Zealand fleet businesses to Element is also expected to close ...
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The light-emitting diode (LED) grow-light market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.93% from 2015 to more than $1.9bn by 2020, according to the report 'LED Grow Light Market by Wattage, Type of Installation (New, ...
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"After completing the construction of 14 wind turbines this year, Haizhuang plans to build 25 to 50 turbines in the United States next year," said Yang Benxin, chairman of CSIC (Chongqing) Haizhuang Windpower Equipment at the WINDPOWER 2015 ...
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China's market regulators are investigating foreign medical-equipment makers over suspicion that they may have paid bribes or used illegal strategies to achieve market dominance, according to some people familiar with the matter. ...
An independent investigation, overseen by NuVasive’s board, found Alex Lukianov had not complied with certain company expense reimbursement and personnel policies. NuVasive’s CEO has resigned from the company after an ...
Chongqing, as the only municipality in inland of China and a metropolitan area along the Yangtze River, serves an important role in building China's first inland free trade zone (FTZ), a top municipal official said. "According to the ...
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The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
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