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Wheels Electronics Selects Micrel’s RF Solutions for Remote Keyless Entry and Access Solutions

Micrel Inc., an industry leader in high-performance Linear and Power solutions, LAN and timing and communications solutions, today announced that Wheels Electronics Manufacturing SDN, BHD, a leading manufacturer of a comprehensive range of quality automobile and home security systems in Malaysia, has chosen Micrel’s line of RF solutions for its line of Remote Keyless Entry and RF access solutions. Wheels supplies their RKE solutions to Tier 1 automotive makers in different regions.

29 Aug 2013

Scientist’s Commemorate Famous Debate on Why Ice Floats on Water

For online and print audiences deep into lazy late-summer-day reading, yearning for diversions from everyday cares, how about a glimpse 400 years back in time at a famous clash between Galileo and an arch-enemy over why ice floats on water? That debate, between a giant in the history of science and a little-remembered naysayer who challenged Galileo’s idea that Earth revolves around the sun, is the topic of a story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News.

29 Aug 2013

Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Market Forecast to Grow at 5.6% CAGR Till 2018

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Global and U.S. Pharmaceutical Packaging (Plastic Bottles, Parental Containers, Blister, Closures, Labels and Others) Market for Manufacturing and Contract Packaging-Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," the global pharmaceutical packaging market was valued at USD 50.07 billion in 2011 and is expected to be USD 73.04 billion by 2018, growing at a CAGR of 5.6% from 2012 to 2018.

29 Aug 2013

NASA Designs and Tests Severe but Survivable Helicopter Crash

Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., dropped an old Marine CH-46E helicopter fuselage filled with 15 dummy occupants from a height of about 30 feet Wednesday to test improved seats and seatbelts and gather data on the odds of surviving a helicopter crash.

29 Aug 2013

Point Grey USB3 Vision Cameras Compatible with National Instruments Software

Point Grey, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, today announced plug-and-play interoperability between Point Grey's Flea®3 USB3 Vision cameras and NI Vision ...

From Teledyne FLIR LLC 29 Aug 2013

New Thermo Scientific picoSpin 80 Launched

Academic and industrial laboratories can now easily collect routine high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data on molecules in solution using the Thermo Scientific picoSpin 80, a portable, competitively-priced NMR spectrometer built for benchtop operation.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific – Materials & Structural Analysis 29 Aug 2013

Shimadzu To Launch New Series Of Turbo Molecular Pumps

On 2 September 2013, Shimadzu Corporation will launch the company’s new “TMP-X2905/X3405” series of turbo molecular pumps with integrated power supplies and 3000 L/s class pumping speeds for semiconduct...

From Shimadzu Scientific Instruments 29 Aug 2013

Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Now Supported By Biognosys’ Spectronaut™ Software

Biognosys AG, a Swiss Proteomics Company, announced today the second release of its Spectronaut™ software for analysis of Hyper Reaction Monitoring (HRM) data. HRM is a targeted proteomics technology that enable...

From Thermo Fisher Scientific 28 Aug 2013

University of Oklahoma Include GeoSpec Analysis System by Oxford Instruments as Part of its Laboratory Equipment

Oxford Instruments, supplier of Magnetic Resonance solutions for core analysis laboratories in the oil and gas industries, reports on the work of Professor Carl Sondergeld and his students from the Mewbourne School of Petroleum & Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma.

From Oxford Instruments 28 Aug 2013

Fiskars to Focus on Flat Products at Helsinki Ceramics Factory

The Helsinki ceramics factory has a key role as a center of ceramics expertise and the development of ceramic products in Fiskars Group. It is now planned that operations at the factory will focus on flat products – plates and saucers – as well as manufacturing small ceramic series. Forming through jiggering and hand-made decorating would be contracted to manufacturing partners.

28 Aug 2013

ThyssenKrupp Establishes New Production Plant for Cylinder-Head Covers in Saxony-Anhalt/Germany

ThyssenKrupp today started operation of a new production plant for cylinder-head covers in Ilsenburg in Saxony-Anhalt/Germany. The new plant was officially inaugurated by Dr. Reiner Haseloff, the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt, and Dr. Heinrich Hiesinger, CEO of ThyssenKrupp AG.

28 Aug 2013

BASF and ElectriPlast to Jointly Explore North American Market for Conductive Thermoplastics

Integral Technologies, Inc., an emerging leader in hybrid conductive plastics, and wholly owned subsidiary ElectriPlast Corp, announced today the signing of a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with chemical leader BASF Corporation to jointly explore the North American market for ElectriPlast’s patented line of conductive thermoplastics.

28 Aug 2013

APNT, Solexel, and YHCC Enter Development Agreement for Novel Solar Paste Technology

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced the signing of a joint research, development and cooperation agreement with Sichuan Yinhe Chemical Co., Ltd. (YHCC) and Solexel, Inc (Solexel). The agreement relates to the novel solar paste technology being jointly developed and commercialized by the parties.

28 Aug 2013

Shape-Memory Alloys May Help Improve Safety in Weapons Components

Imagine untwisting a finger-size spring, then holding the flame from a lighter underneath the unraveled section. Like magic, it twirls itself into a spring again because the metal alloy remembered its original shape.

From Sandia National Laboratories 28 Aug 2013

Report Analyses Global Market for Automotive Refinish Coatings

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Analysis of the Automotive Refinish Coatings Market

From Report Linker 28 Aug 2013