The Blackstone Group has formed a partnership with Windland Energieerzeugungs to construct Meerwind, one of the North Sea’s largest wind farms.
Life could get easier for deaf people thanks to an invention in development from IBM called SiSi that automatically converts the spoken word into British Sign Language
Panasonic, in conjunction with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, has used 160 AA-size batteries to make the first ever dry cell powered manned aircraft flight.
Germany’s SABIC Polyolefine, a subsidiary of Holland’s SABIC Europe has commissioned Uhde to build a new 250,000 tonne-per-year high-density polyethylene plant (HDPE).
The Sprinter consortium has been awarded €399m Netherlands Railways to deliver, 32 four-car and 32 six-car electric multiple units (EMUs).
Silicon Laboratories has acquired Limerick, Ireland-based ChipSensors, an early stage technology company creating single-chip CMOS sensors designed to detect temperature, humidity and gases.
Siemens has received a €100 million order from the China Southern Power Grid Company to construct an additional high-voltage direct current transmission link in southeast China.
LiteThru, a Warrington-based Science and Technology Facilities Council spinout, has secured £750,000 funding to commercialise its patented non-invasive analysis technology.
ABB has won orders worth $140m from the Mexican national power utility to help expand power capacity, extend the transmission and distribution network and improve grid reliability.
A new kind of sensor could warn emergency services personnel when carbon filters in their respirators have become dangerously saturated and are unsafe to use.
