It’s Only Common Sense: Be the Vendor They Compare Everyone Else To
Marcy’s Musings: Additive Processes, Signal Consequences
The Marketing Minute: If Your Marketing Budget Gets Cut in Half, Then What?
EPTE Newsletter: The Fall of the Giants
Headlines of the week1. Toppan Printing (Major printing company in Japan) 3/8
Has developed a new flexible e-paper display. It can change the colors by simple switching between white, black and red.
2. AIST (Major R&D organization in Japan) 3/8
Has developed a new heater material with nano-coils made on carbon nano tube. IR laser irradiation generates uniform heat in the material.
3. NEDO (Major R&D organization in Japan) 3/10
Has co-developed a new catalyst sheet for the artificial photosynthesis process with Tokyo Univ. and TOTO. It accelerates the hydrogen generation from lighting.
4. Toyota Motors (Major automobile manufacturer in Japan) 3/14
Has started a field test of hydrogen fuel cell with forklift trucks. The hydrogen is generated by wind power without generation of carbon dioxide.
5. Taiyo Yuden (Major device manufacturer in Japan) 3/15
Has rolled out a new metallic power inductor series “MCOIL MB Series” for mobile equipment with a small package of 1.6 x 0.8 x 1.0 mm.
6. Mitsubishi Material (Major material supplier in Japan) 3/16
Has developed a new recycling process for rare earth elements with a purification technology. The process gets the rare earth from home appliances with high yield.
7. Toshiba (Major electric and electronics company in Japan) 3/17
Will invest 360 billion yens for next three years to expand the manufacturing capacity of flash memory devices.
8. AIST (Major R&D organization in Japan) 3/18
Has developed a new piezo material from aluminum nitride with a high Q value adding Mg and Nb. It does not need expensive rare earth.
9. Tohoku University (Japan) 3/22
Has co-developed a new magnetic memory device with high response speed introducing spintronics technology.
10. Euglena (Chemical company in Japan) 3/22
Has co-developed a new extraction process of fuel oil from botanical oils without hydrogenation.
To read back issues of the newsletter, click here.
To reach Dominique K. Numakura, click here.
Visit DKN Research at www.dknresearchllc.com.
Please contact haverhill@dknreseach.com for further information on the news included here.
Page 2 of 2
