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Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builders’ Association to Host TMTS2014

The TMTS2014 hosted by TMBA will be held on November 5th-9th at Greater Taichung International Expo Center. More than 650 companies, both domestic and overseas, will attend the TMTS2014, which filled in 78,000 square meters with more than 3,700 booths, exhibiting all types of high precision machine tools, components, accessories, tools and automation equipment.

7 Jul 2014

Pirelli to Introduce New 18-Inch Tyre Design Concept

Pirelli is introducing a new 18-inch tyre design concept to showcase the way that Formula One could look in the near future. But rather than an abstract design, this is a fully functional tyre, capable of completing demonstration runs around Silverstone during the forthcoming in-season test from next Tuesday to next Wednesday (8-9 July).

7 Jul 2014

Forecast Report on Global Concrete Superplasticizer Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Concrete Superplasticizer (SNF, PC, SMF & MLS) Market Forecasts & Opportunities 2014-2018" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 7 Jul 2014

New Talyrond 500H Range Launched by Taylor Hobson

The Talyrond 500 series is unsurpassed in speed and position control making it the ideal system for high volume precision components

From Taylor Hobson 4 Jul 2014

EY announces President & CEO Scott Becker from Chromaflo Technologies

EY has announced that President & CEO Scott Becker of Chromaflo Technologies Corp, one of the leading independent global suppliers of colorant systems, chemical and pigment dispersions, received the EY Entrepreneur O...

4 Jul 2014

Hydro Buys Out Rio Tinto Alcan’s Stake in Soral Aluminium Plant

Aluminium company Hydro and Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) have signed an agreement for Hydro to take over RTA's share of the aluminium smelter Sør-Norge Aluminium AS (Søral) in Norway. Following the closing of the agreement, the plant will become Hydro's fifth fully owned aluminium smelter in Norway.

4 Jul 2014

Jordan Valley Semiconductors Adds Another Customer in Advanced Wafer Level Packaging

Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd., a leading supplier of X-ray based metrology tools for advanced semiconductor manufacturing lines, today announced that its micro-spot X-ray Fluorescence (µXRF) metrology tool has been qualified for production monitoring of advanced Wafer Level Packaging (WLP) processes, by another leading memory player.

4 Jul 2014

Toshiba and IBIDEN Successfully Prototype Fuel Assembly Cover for Nuclear Power Reactor Core Applications

Toshiba Corporation and IBIDEN Co., Ltd. today announced that the companies have established a manufacturing technology for a SiC-based material with outstanding heat and oxidation resistance, intended for reactor core applications in nuclear power plants. Toshiba and IBIDEN have successfully utilized the new technology to create a prototype of a fuel assembly cover.

4 Jul 2014

ThyssenKrupp Opens New Factory for Chassis Technology in Shanghai

Opening of a new factory for chassis technology More than 400 million euros invested in new production sites in China in the past three years Further growth in components business in China planned

4 Jul 2014

Promising Advances in Bioelectronic Medicine Draws Big Investment from GlaxoSmithKline

Imagine having tiny electronics implanted somewhere in your body that can regulate nerve signals and make symptoms of various disorders go away. That's the vision of the field of bioelectronic medicine — the emerging discipline that has made enough promising advances to draw a big investment by a pharmaceutical giant, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society.

4 Jul 2014

New Microelectronics Lab for Accelerating Commercialization of Products at Celestica's Toronto Headquarters

Celestica Inc., a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions, today announced the opening of its new microelectronics laboratory at its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario in Canada.

4 Jul 2014

Linde Electronics and Specialty Gases to Exhibit at SEMICON West Tradeshow

Linde Electronics and Specialty Gases, a business area of Linde Gas North America LLC, will be exhibiting at SEMICON West tradeshow in San Francisco July 8-10. Its focus will be on how Linde enables smarter electronics manufacturing through innovative gases and chemicals technology, as well as through investment in gases, engineering and strategic partnerships.

From Linde plc 4 Jul 2014

Trends & Forecasts Report on Biopolymers/Bioplastics Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Biopolymers/Bioplastics Market by Type (Bio PET, Bio PE, PLA, PHA, Bio PBS, Starch Blends, and Regenerated Cellulose), by Application (Packaging, Bottles, Fibers, Agriculture, Automotive, and Others) & by Geography – Trends & Forecasts to 2018

4 Jul 2014

Vishay Products Selected for Electronic Design’s ‘Top 101 Components’

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today announced that the company’s TP8 and T42 solid tantalum chip capacitors, T18 wet tantalum capacitors, and IHLP-2525CZ-8A low-profile, high-current inductor have been selected for Electronic Design’s “Top 101 Components.” The annual list compiles the 101 components from the previous year most popular among readers of the magazine’s Products of the Week newsletter.

4 Jul 2014

Decorative Aerosol Drywall and Ceiling Texturing Applications Provider, Homax, Acquired by PPG

PPG Industries today announced that its North American architectural coatings business has completed its acquisition of The Homax Group, Inc., a supplier of decorative wall and ceiling texture repair products, from Olympus Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed.

From PPG Industries Inc. 4 Jul 2014