It is time to enter the industry’s largest technology and business awards: the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016. You could see your company’s technical and business achievements recognised and presented to an international audience at a Gala Dinner which takes place on 1 December 2016 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. The …

Elektra Industry Awards 2016 open for entries

Researchers at Princeton University are predicting a state of matter in which current flows only through surface channels over an insulator. These channels are created through the action of the ‘hourglass fermion’, a theorised particle which arises due to a special property of the material. “The tuning of this property can sequentially create and destroy …

Princeton suggests fermion transistor

New LED sports lighting projects extend the energy savings, control, and special effects capabilities of SSL to America’s Pastime.

The plant, located in Culbertson, Montana, employs Sionix’s proprietary patented Dissolved Air Flotation technology.

The agency has been in negotiations for months to purchase 20,370 acres of property owned by Delta Wetlands Properties in Contra Costa, San Joaquin, and Solano counties.

Market analyst BCC Research has forecast in a recent report that global cumulative investments
in desalination facilities will hit close to US$ 48.2 billion by 2020, from some US$ 21.4 billion
in 2015 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.6%.


Researchers at Israel’s Bar Ilan University and the Tel HaShomer Hospital have concluded that
consumption of desalinated water has upped the incidence of heart disease and increased
death rates as a consequence.

Namibia is pondering a desalination programme to address water shortages and to supply
irrigation schemes that consume annually some 430 million m³ of water.

Oman’s government-owned electricity and desalination company, Oman Power & Water
Procurement Company (OPWP), was poised this week to sign agreements with Spanish-Omani
joint venture, Myah Gulf Oman Desalination Company to develop a 250,000 m³/day
Independent Water Project (IWP) in Sohar.

Difficult-to-treat water filtration specialist, Spiral Water Technologies, has extended the
application of its technology into solids management.