Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) reported results for the second quarter ended June 29, 2003. Second-quarter sales were $347.1 million, down...
Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, AZ) reported results for the three months ended June 30, 2003. Net sales for the first quarter of fiscal-year 2004 were $161.3 million, up 1% sequentially from $159.7 million in the immediately preceding quarter, and up 2% from sales of $157.5 million in the prior-year's first quarter. Pro-forma net income for […]
Gresham Power (Salisbury) introduced its new ultra-compact UPS, the Niky, with three models that are available at power ratings of 400VA, 600VA...
Capstone Turbine Corp. (Chatsworth, CA) reported its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2003. Revenue for the quarter was $4.1 million as compared with $7.4 million for the second quarter of 2002. Capstone shipped 108 units, comprised of 48 of its 60kW systems and 60 of its 30kW systems, in the second quarter of […]
Queensland state-owned Ergon Energy and macadamia nut producer Suncoast Gold Macadamias, announced a joint venture to develop a power station that will...
Modine Manufacturing Co. (Racine, WI) reported continued improvement in its financial results for the first quarter ended June 26, 2003. Sales for the first quarter increased 6% to $288.9 million from $272.3 million reported a year ago. Net favorable currency exchange rates, primarily the stronger Euro, added about $21.4 million to first quarter sales. Earnings […]
Millennium Cell Inc. (Eatontown, NJ) has been awarded US Patent number 6,586,563 by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a process for making sodium borohydride, a key component in the Millennium Cell Hydrogen-on-Demand™ fuel system. The patent relates to a process for the synthesis of sodium borohydride using more readily available metal salts rather […]
Lithium Technology Corp. (LTC, Plymouth Meeting, PA), an early production stage rechargeable lithium battery manufacturer, announced that its GAIA operating units have received firm purchase orders for high-performance, lithium-ion, prototype batteries for transportation applications from two different customers. The company's GAIA USA (Plymouth Meeting, PA) unit has received a purchase order from Penn State University […]
Palcan Fuel Cells Ltd. (Burnaby, BC) announced a joint marketing agreement with Nagase and Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) to distribute fuel cell stacks and systems for the Japanese marketplace. Nagase, founded in 1832, has 100 subsidiary companies in Japan and overseas, and sales of US$4.19 billion. The two companies will lever Nagase's expertise as a […]
Headwaters Inc. (South Jordan, UT) announced formation of a fuel cell technology development and commercialization joint venture with the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP, Peoples Republic of China). The new partnership will develop, and plans to market fuel cell nanocatalysts, fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies, fuel cell systems and other related electronic devices. Initial […]
Illinois 2H2 (Chicago, IL), established by the Illinois Coalition and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to create an industry cluster centered on the development of hydrogen as an energy carrier, launched a meeting of leaders in the public and private sector. The organization resulted from an April conference of industry leaders at […]
Alternate Energy Corp. (AEC, Las Vegas, NV) announced information on an exciting new agreement for AEC. AEC has signed a letter of intent with Select Molecular Technologies Inc. (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) to explore a sharing of technologies to create a new and novel method of generating electricity for the retail consumer. This will involve the […]
Researchers at Tufts University have found that only a tiny amount of gold or platinum in non-metallic form is needed to create...
A new project that involves Fuel Cell Technologies Corp. (FCT, Kingston, ON) in a consortium led by BC Research Inc. (BCRI, Vancouver, BC), will be funded by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC, Canada). Fuel Cell Technologies will be funded to provide one of its 5kW fuel cell products to the project. On June 9th, 2003, […]
Hoku Scientific Inc. (Honolulu, HI) announced that it has formed a joint development relationship with Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. (Allendale, NJ). The...