Above all, IDE is a solutions provider. So says chief executive Avshalom Felber, the former financial whizz turned water industry leader, as he outlines the company’s unique mix of thermal and reverse osmosis (RO) technologies, operational expertise, and contractual nous.

IDE Technologies is ranked second in this year’s Fortune top 50 Change the World list of companies, behind GlaxoSmithKline and ahead of General Electric.

OPWP has announced a tender to provide “Technical Advisory Services” for its plans to increase water and power supply…

America’s WateReuse Association has unveiled the winners of this year’s awards for leadership in water reuse.

Company to support artificial reefs in Condado Lagoon in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

A conjoined approach to solving the problems of growing demand for energy and water would definitely be attractive. At the National University of Singapore, we have integrated the solutions to these two problems by designing a plasmonic solar thermal collector nanocomposite, comprising a Ag/SiO2 core, with a TiO2 outer shell as a photocatalyst.

Emergency repairs are underway at Pt Lisas Desalination Plant in Trinidad and Tobago, after part of a pipeline collapsed leaving residents without water, reports the Trinidad Express.

This was the headline, 55 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1st 1961. The story opens: An off-the-shelf delivery service is now available for STC tunnel diodes. They were introduced early last yea r in development form to enable engineers to gain experience in the use of them Since then …

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Q2 worldwide semiconductor billings were $10.5 billion – 26% up on Q1 and 11% up on Q2 2015, says SEMI. Q2 worldwide semiconductor equipment bookings were $11.9 billion up 27% on Q1 and up 17% on Q2 2015. The quarterly billings data by region in billions of U.S. dollars, quarter-over-quarter growth and year-over-year rates by …

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In H1 IQE, the Cardiff compound semiconductor wafer specialist, saw double digit growth in revenues, profits and cash generation. Revenues were up 18% reflecting increasing revenues in all markets; cash generated from operations increased 176%; debt was reduced by 28% to £35.4 million and photonics sales grew 45% y-o-y; The company earned licensing income of …

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