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IP-Based Surveillance Market in India Expected to Grow at 45%

The Technology Transition From Analogue CCTV Systems to IP-based Solutions is a Major Trend , and in India IP-based Surveillance Market is Expected to Grow at 45 Per Cent Year on Year

31 Dec 2012

Northeast-Pocono Reliability Project Submitted to Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for Approval

After soliciting public input during 13 community meetings, PPL Electric Utilities has submitted the Northeast-Pocono Reliability Project to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for approval, the company said Friday (12/28).

31 Dec 2012

Tower International to Strengthen Business with Sale of Korean Operations

Tower International, Inc., a leading integrated global manufacturer of engineered structural metal components and assemblies, today announced that it sold its Korean operations in order to strengthen its overall business and realize shareholder value.

31 Dec 2012

Texas-Based Alliance Drilling Fluids to be Acquired by Newpark Resources

Newpark Resources, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all assets and operations of Alliance Drilling Fluids, LLC ("Alliance"), a provider of drilling fluids, proppants, and related services headquartered in Midland, Texas.

31 Dec 2012

Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel Acquires Renewable Diesel Demonstration Plant

Blue Horizon Industries Inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel Inc ("BH Bio-Diesel") has successfully completed financing and the purchase of a re-newable diesel demonstration plant.

31 Dec 2012

Yingli Green Energy’s Multicrystalline Modules Achieve Great Success in TUV SUD's PID Test

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand " Yingli Solar ," today announced that its multicrystalline PV modules passed the Potential Induced Degradation ("PID") test conducted by TUV SUD.

29 Dec 2012

Plastic Component Manufacturer Earns ISO 9001:2008 Certification

Bioplast Manufacturing, LLC, a manufacturer of plastic components such as laboratory plastic centrifuge vials, and liquid handling pipette tips used primarily for the medical research, clinical diagnostic and biotech environments, announced today it has become ISO 9001:2008 certified.

29 Dec 2012

ThyssenKrupp Completes Combination of Inoxum with Outokumpu

ThyssenKrupp today completed the combination of its stainless steel business Inoxum with the Finnish company Outokumpu.

29 Dec 2012

Cypress Asserts GSI SRAM Patent Infringement, ITC to Review Initial Determination

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to review the entire Initial Determination issued by Chief Administrative Law Judge Charles E. Bullock in the pending patent case between Cypress and GSI Technology. Cypress has asserted that GSI SRAMs infringe multiple Cypress patents.

29 Dec 2012

New Composite Materials with Properties Unencountered in Nature

By showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature.

29 Dec 2012

Air Cleaning Invention Based on Natural Atmospheric Process

Industries across Europe are threatened with shutdown as European Union emission rules for Volatile Organic Compounds are tightened. Now an air cleaning invention from the University of Copenhagen has proven its ability to remove these compounds. And in the process they have helped a business in Danish town Aarhus improve relations to angry neighbors.

29 Dec 2012

GSE to Provide Full-Scope Simulator for Two Unit Reactor Plant in Slovakia

GSE Systems, Inc. (“GSE” or “the Company”), a global energy services solutions provider, today announced that it has received a $9.1 million change order from a customer in Slovakia with which GSE is contracted to provide a full-scope simulator for a two unit reactor plant. As previously announced, work on the simulator project was suspended in May 2012 due to regulatory changes in Slovakia requiring the customer to redesign certain aspects of the actual power plant.

28 Dec 2012

EQM Acquires Vertterre

EQM Technologies & Energy, Inc. (“EQM”), a leading provider of environmental services to government and commercial businesses, today announced that it has acquired all of the capital stock of Vertterre Corp., a mechanical and electrical engineering services firm providing energy efficient solutions for both new and existing government and commercial facilities (“Vertterre”), for approximately $1.5 million, consisting of $822,300 in cash, 1.0 million shares of EQM common stock valued at $0.40 per share, or $400,000 in total, and an unsecured subordinated note of EQM in the principal amount of $250,000.

28 Dec 2012

Global Market for Ethylene Vinyl Acetate to Grow at 4.4% CAGR to 2,966,078 tons in 2017

ReportsnReports.com adds "Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Global Market to 2017 - Growth in the Asia-Pacific and North American Solar Panel Sectors to Drive Demand" market research report to its store.

28 Dec 2012

Cleantech Solutions Awarded Patent for Innovative Cloth Washing Technique in Dyeing Machines

Cleantech Solutions International, Inc. ("Cleantech Solutions" or "the Company"), a manufacturer of metal components and assemblies primarily used in the wind power, solar and other clean technology industries, today announced that the Company recently received a new patent certificate (Patent No. ZL 2012 2 0165878.7) for an innovative production technique enabling more-effective cloth washing in dyeing machines under high temperature and pressure.

28 Dec 2012