Energy Efficiency and Lighting Conference Announced as Part of Premier Farnell’s $100,000 USD Live EDGE Green Design Competition

Premier Farnell plc, the leading multi-channel, high service distributor and its companies (Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC, and MCM), announced the Live EDGE competition will be hosting a series of technical learning and networking events held in a virtual global community, the Live EDGE EcoSphere. Registration and the event... 

ET Solar Group Presents a New Tracking System with Unparalleled Wind Load

ET Solar Group Corp., a Nanjing-based solar power solution provider and integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products including ingots, wafers, modules, and state-of-the-art dual-axis tracking systems with manufacturing facilities located in Taizhou, China, announced the immediate availability of a new dual axis (ET-D81) tracking system with an unparalleled... 

Coal-Fired Utilities See Improved Efficiency With Green Plus

Biofriendly Corporation announced today that its Green Plus® liquid combustion catalyst has been proven to reduce harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants. In addition, trials have shown an improvement in thermal efficiency that result in reductions of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which are believed to be a major contributor to global warming. Successful... 

Equistar to Temporarily Idle Olefin Unit

Equistar Chemicals, LP, will temporarily idle the olefin unit at La Porte, Texas, due to declining market and economic conditions. The La Porte olefin unit is expected to remain out of service until early 2009. The plant has a nameplate capacity of 1.7 billion pounds per year of ethylene and 700 million pounds of propylene. “We have elected to... 

PureSpectrum, Inc. Files Patent Application for Universal Lighting Control Device

PureSpectrum, Inc. has continued to strengthen and expand its intellectual property portfolio by filing a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a two-wire dimming device that is addressable and scalable for virtually any form of artificial lighting. For the past six months, PureSpectrum has used its fully scalable, two-wire... 

PureSpectrum, Inc. Adapting Ballast Circuitry to Be Compatible With LED Lighting

In its ongoing efforts to continue development of the company’s breakthrough ballast technology, PureSpectrum, Inc. has begun testing the viability of its innovative ballast design for use with Light Emitting Diode (LED) applications. PureSpectrum has already engineered and introduced breakthrough ballast technology for fluorescent lighting, and... 

LyondellBasell’s World-Class PE and PP Technologies Selected by Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries

Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc. LLP, in which LyondellBasell is holding a minority interest, has selected LyondellBasell’s polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) technologies for three new plants that will have a combined capacity of 1300 KT of polyolefins per year. The plants will be constructed at the petrochemical complex of Karabatan... 

PureSpectrum, Inc. Formally Files Patent Application for Dimmable CFL Bulb

PureSpectrum, Inc. has continued the expansion and strengthening of its intellectual property portfolio by filing a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL). In addition to filing for full patent protection for the dimmable CFL bulb design, the company has also begun proceeding to upgrade...