What is the future for drones? 24th April 2019

Providing a window into cable management, Marshall-Tufflex has launched its Recycled PVC-U Calculator, showing users exactly how much recycled material is included in each of its products and therefore saved from being sent straight to landfill. With sustainability and recycling increasingly in the spotlight, Marshall-Tufflex has provided transparency into the environmental impact of its products with the launch of its Recycled PVC-U Calculator.

Circuit Breakers Market will surpass $21bn by 2024, as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights. Affirmative regulatory mandates toward the development of cross border electric infrastructure to sustain the rising demand for the refurbishment of ageing transmission network will foster the circuit breaker market.

Provider of industrial power and control systems, CPT Drives and Power PCL, has become a licensed partner of Siemens, the global engineering firm, for the production of power distribution panels and sales of SIEMENS accessories, which will enable CPT to tap demand across various industries and infrastructure projects in Thailand. It expects to begin commercial operation 2019/Q4.

Pickering Interfaces has won the Queen’s Award for Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the last three years. Comments CEO, Keith Moore (pictured), “Pickering Interfaces exports 95% of its production overseas - 40% to North America, 35% to Europe and 20% to Asia. We received the Queens Award this year due to our 25% average growth during each of the three previous years.”

New research from reichelt has revealed 52% of electronics project managers face challenges sourcing products, and that this has led to projects being cancelled. reichelt surveyed professionals in software design, engineering, development, programming, IT and purchasing and found that pricing and delivery were two of their top issues, making it hard to not only choose but source the components they need. As many as 31% of projects have had to be cancelled due to unavailability of the item they need, or prices being too high.

Continuing to expand its functional verification footprint across high-growth markets and applications, Mentor, a Siemens business, has announced that Arm China has selected Mentor’s Questa Simulation with Power Aware verification solution to handle critical tasks in the development of next-generation, low-power microcontroller (MCU) cores.

Global clean energy communications and consulting firm, Mercom Capital Group, has released its report on funding and mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency sectors for the first quarter (Q1) of 2019. In Q1 2019, $210m was raised by Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency companies, a decrease from the $472m raised in Q1 2018.

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Infineon Technologies increased its automotive business in Japan by almost 25% in 2018. It thus grew faster than any other of the top ten automotive semiconductor suppliers in the country. Japan accounts for approximately ten percent of global car production.