ABB to sell Southwire its U.S. extra-high and high-voltage cable plant
ABB has signed an agreement to sell its Huntersville, North Carolina, United States, cable factory to Southwire Company, LLC. ABB said that the sale of the plant is in line with ABB’s Next…
Mecspe 2015 – Parma 26-28 march
360° technology innovation for industry, know-how transfer and focus on the macro trends of the division: the appointment with MECSPE is back! With its 9 theme trade shows, complete overview of materials, solutions,…
A new laser generation
Light allows transmitting a great quantity of information on optical fiber nets and, to exploit this potentiality at best, both in terms of speed and of transmission distances, the laser light that generates…
Nanofibers to extract uranium from oceans
We can find uranium in nature in mineral deposits but also in oceans’ waters: they estimate that oceans contain thousand times the quantity of uranium present in mineral deposits known until now; luckily…
Hybrid between conventional and quantum light
Researchers of the National Institute of Optics of the Florence CNR and of the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Florence University, in collaboration with the University of Seoul, in Korea, and of…
A new type of optical fiber
Anderson localization, known also as “strong localization”, is a physical phenomenon that occurs when the diffusion of waves of electromagnetic or acoustic nature is inhibited by a strong disorder of the transmission medium,…
Non-Destructive Testing: Means of Inductive Heat-Flux Thermography
New infrared test system for defects from 10mm onwards, at 1.5 m/sec with significantly reduced pseudo-signals. For defect testing of round and square steel bars, raw material for crankshafts, engine- and chassis components,…
The situation of industrial energy efficiency
The Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG) completed its new “Energy Efficiency – the first fuel for the EU Economy: How to drive new finance for energy efficiency investments” report. The EEFIG report…
CabWire 2015 world technical conference
Tuesday, 3rd November 2015 in Düsseldorf, Germany The IWMA is delighted to announce that the 7th biennial CabWire world cable and wire technical conference will take place on Tuesday, 3rd November 2015 in…
Smart textiles
A new research branch with applicative perspectives to be fully discovered, a new frontier of “wire technologies” where, the consolidated textile knowledge is integrated with electronics, chemistry, biology and nanotechnologies. A textile, according…
