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Covestro-LED Consortium to Use Waste Gas From Steel Plants to Make Plastics
Oct 23, 2017Polymer giant Covestro is leading a consortium of 14 partners to study how plastics can be produced from flue gas from the steel industry in an efficient and sustainable manner. The investigation anchored by the materials manufacturer ...
Tags: Steel Plants, Plastics
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First-in-Japan Project Aims to Prevent Smartphone Related Traffic Accidents
Nov 24, 2016Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Komeda Co., Ltd. (Komeda), and KDDI Corporation (KDDI) will begin an initiative on September 20, 2016 by utilizing a smartphone application called Driving Barista. The application is aimed at reducing the ...
Tags: Smartphone, Traffic Accidents
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Margraf Inaugurates First Edition of Marble Stories
Aug 12, 2016After 110 years from its foundation, a time during which it has become a hallmark of world architecture, Margraf has inaugurated the first edition of Marble Stories in Chiampo, near Vicenza. It is an international exhibition, which will ...
Tags: Margraf, architecture
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Three-Year €33m European Project Reference to Extend RF-Soi Technology for Above-1GB/S 4G+ Wireless Front-End Modules
Jul 12, 2016The pan-European REFERENCE research project - created to leverage disruptive radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) technology in developing industrial solutions for the performance, cost and integration needs of RF front-end modules ...
Tags: RF-SOI, ECSEL, 4G+communications
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ICT-Streams EU Project to Develop Transceiver and Routing Technologies for Multi-Terabit on-Board Chip-to-Chip Communications
Jun 27, 2016ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new three-year project launched on 1 February (followed by a kick-off meeting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-25 February) with the goal of ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, silicon photonics
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Social Inclusion Project Identifies Furniture Workplace Potential
Mar 23, 2016The BFM is part of an industry consortium that manages Working Tri21, an EU-funded project which aims to enhance the social inclusion of people suffering from disabilities by integrating them into the job market, specifically in the ...
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China Launches HD Earth Observation Satellite
Dec 29, 2015China on Tuesday launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen-4, as part of the country's high-definition (HD) earth observation project. Gaofen-4 was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern ...
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U.S. Energy Secretary Invests in Laser Technology and Efficient Lights to Solve Climate Change Issues
Dec 11, 2015World leaders gathered in Paris last week for the 21st UN climate conference, known as COP21. At the meeting, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz highlighted several solutions to reduce carbon emissions, including launching a Climate ...
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Scientists Kickstart Global Light Pollution Mapping Project Based on ISS Photos
Nov 12, 2015Scientists are tapping into photographs taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to reliably measure the amount of light pollution worldwide. This study not only includes the well-known signatures of cities and ...
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Next Generation Technology and Strategic Allocation Races
Aug 17, 2015Mainstream PV products are currently struggling against sameness and virulent price competition. To become outstood over others, solar companies have to develop differentiated and competitive products. The trend is triggered by the ...
Tags: PV products, PV cells
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Taiwan Cabinet to Spend NT$36 Bn. on Productivity 4.0 Project
Aug 17, 2015The Taiwan Cabinet or its executive ministry plans to spend roughly NT$36 billion (US$1.16 billion) over the next nine years on its “Productivity 4.0” project beginning this year, with the aim of boosting the island's total ...
Tags: Productivity 4.0, 4.0 standards
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Nano-GaN Power Electronic Devices Project Aims to Save Energy
Apr 3, 2015Funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Invest Northern Ireland (InvestNI) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) government agencies through the US-Ireland R&D Partnership program, over €1m has been awarded for the project ...
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Nissan and Kanematsu Encourage Electric Vehicles Use in Northern California
Mar 6, 2015Nissan has joined forces with Japan-based trading company Kanematsu to work with Japanese R&D management organization, New Energy Industrial Technology and Development Organization (NEDO) to encourage electric vehicles use in Northern ...
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A Report Looks at The Economic Effects Climate Change Likely to Bring tothe Midwest
Jan 26, 2015A group of bipartisan business and government leaders released a report Friday that looks at the economic effects climate change is likely to bring to the Midwest, including the region’s farmers, and concludes that in some of the ...
Tags: climate, noon webcast, Agriculture
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MoAF Restore Local Cotton Variety Farming to Cultivate up to 120 Acres of Land
Jan 5, 2015The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF), Oman, has started to restore the local cotton variety farming in Oman and aims to cultivate up to 120 acres of land in the next few years, Muscatdaily.com reported. The revival project ...
Tags: raw material, cotton cultivation, Textile